Re: Fantasy/sf TV shows Re: past discussions

On 4/10/2012 5:26 PM, Ellen Rawson wrote:
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> --- On Tue, 4/10/12, Grey Malkin<grymalkyn@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> from November, 1999. As you might expect, one of the
>> first topics was "Who
>>> saw Buffy last night?"
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>> Ah, the good old days. =)
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> Yes, back when there would be new Buffy episodes on TV. :)
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> It is fun to watch them in re-runs, but it's not the same.
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> So, what are people watching? What's the new big sf/fantasy show? (Yes, we're waiting for new Dr. Who episodes. And I heard an interview with Eve Myles recently where she said that she and Barrowman are both up for new Torchwood episodes.)

Not new, but awesome: Fringe. I loved Alcatraz but it may not be
renewed. The Walking Dead (which I know is a shock to everyone). I like
Person of Interest a lot too, and not just because they film near where
I work on a fairly regular basis. And even as a good guy Michael Emerson
is pretty darn creepy.

I can't bring myself to watch the American Being Human though. One of my
friends said season 2 is better because it diverges from the original.
Which I love. We have one more episode here. And I need to catch up on
series 2 of Whitechapel. Bet you couldn't have called me and that one
either. :-) And I need to watch Sherlock because I haven't seen it yet
and I'm afraid my cat will hold it against me. (We don't have Netflix,
so I have to watch on the PBS site on my computer and I just don't like
watching things on my computer as much as on the real TV. And our TVs
are old enough that we don't have streaming capability on them.)

However, I still miss Lost terribly.
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> We started getting Grimm a few weeks ago on Watch (a real channel name) and Channel 5 just picked up Once Upon a Time two weeks ago. We're fans of Grimm, but I must admit that Eddie's my favourite character. I'm giving Once Upon a Time some time to grow on me. I like fairy tales!
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I haven't watched Grimm much because it's on opposite Fringe. I do like
Once Upon a Time, but it's a little uneven.

> I tried watching a New Zealand show, The Mighty Johnsons, aired on SyFy here(hate that spelling!), about Norse gods in the contemporary antipodes. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't compelling neither. Alas, a Game of Thrones didn't do it for me neither. I'm probably the only person on this email list who could take it or leave it.
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I'll do you one better: I haven't ever watched a single episode of Game
of Thrones. :-)

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