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    Burn Notice, Dexter, and most of the time I'm on the computer I have the Mystery Science Theater 3000 channel on jtv on.
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    I guess Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your mother are both really popular among youngsters. I however prefer Top Gear and Mythbusters, along with the occasional scientific line-up on Discovery / National Geographics / BBC / Travel.
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    Walking Dead, Dexter, Hell on Wheels, Blacklist, Salem...

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    The ones currently broadcasting which I watch on Hulu are House and Bones. I will probably also try and watch Dexter sometime after the current season has finished.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
    The ones currently broadcasting which I watch on Hulu are House and Bones. I will probably also try and watch Dexter sometime after the current season has finished.
    The 'current season' ended like a month ago.

    I used to like Nip Tuck too, but that's become too much 'let's try another crazy thing this week'.
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    You watch Bönes? Colour me surprised!
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    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Drama
    Dexter
    United States of Tara
    True Blood

    Comedy
    South Park
    Daily Show
    The Office
    30 Rock
    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

    True Blood is the most recent edition to my schedule. The Office has sort of become a hit or a miss (same with 30 Rock), despite starting out strongly. The most recent episode (which was actually a flashback to funny moments in previous episodes) kept me lolling for the entire time. Dexter, of course, is at the top of my list for a very good reason. If you don't watch it, you're missing out.

    Quote Originally Posted by LittleFuzzy View Post
    The ones currently broadcasting which I watch on Hulu are House and Bones. I will probably also try and watch Dexter sometime after the current season has finished.
    Current season finished a few weeks back. Next one starts in September, I believe.
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    Burn Notice
    NCIS
    Entourage
    The League
    It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
    Man vs. Food
    Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives
    Curb Your Enthusiasm

    I hope to get HBO back in time for The Pacific. Band of Brothers is one of my all-time favorites.

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    I will confess that around my transplant a post-doc loaned BSG first two seasons to me. Much enjoyment. But I would have stopped watching it week in and week out. With occasional weak episodes I'd just drop out fairly soon.

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    You could profitable stop watching BSG five episodes into Season 3 and not miss out on much.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steely Glint View Post
    You could profitable stop watching BSG five episodes into Season 3 and not miss out on much.
    I will vehemently and tenaciously disagree with you, on this point.

    The final season of BSG is, for all its flaws, also its culmination. A frequent criticism on the Intertrons is that "oh it's just two drunk guys chatting"; you're godsdamned right it is! That is what they were driving for.

    Was the choice of validating the religionist plotline poor and shoddy? Of course it was. However, the series was always about the characters. And the series ended with them, the choices and circumstances of what brought them there.

    A true, hardcore sci-fi fan should watch the miniseries and, at best, season one up to the point where Starcunt gets rescued. After that, it is an amalgam of sci-fi and usual tv drama. A line drawn in the water, stop at season 3, is senseless and useless.
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    Anybody seen Paradox or Defying Gravity?
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    A true, hardcore sci-fi fan should watch the miniseries and, at best, season one up to the point where Starcunt gets rescued. After that, it is an amalgam of sci-fi and usual tv drama. A line drawn in the water, stop at season 3, is senseless and useless.
    Except this being the precise point where it stops being good and starts being average.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steely Glint View Post
    Except this being the precise point where it stops being good and starts being average.
    Season 2 had some shitty episodes, too. The end of season 3, plus season 4 have plenty enough good moments to make their time-average higher than, well, average.
    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    I've seen Defying Gravity. Too much "Grey's Anatomy in space" for me, and the sci-fi was shoddy at best.
    I remember being annoyed that they were given a chemical to stop their sexual desires, which they later stopped using because it was claimed to be the cause of their hallucinations, but once that was proven to be a lie - they simply forgot to use it again! Would've spared them and me a lot of unnecessary drama.

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    Dexter, NCIS, Supernatural, How I met your mother, Spooks, Californication, Entourage, Criminal Minds. Have also watched The Wire, Oz and Band of Brothers.
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    Why can't I edit the post? I was just going to change my drunken title to something that accurately reflects what the thread actually is and all, but there is no edit post option, and the double clickety version of doing that won't work, either.
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    Fav TV show...


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    Mostly movies. Or anything on History Channel or National Geographic stuff.

    Or re-runs of NCIS, Law and Order, Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, King of Queens. Sometimes Two and a Half Men.

    and oh yeah, the Olympics.

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    Tend to just watch the various HD movie channels these days, catching up on movies I've been meaning to watch but haven't.
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    I've recently finished Prison Break season 4.

    Currently watching Heroes and looking forward to the next season of True Blood.
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    Alright, I have a question in case anyone has run across something like this. Since I don't watch many TV shows due to finding a lot of current day TV to be abhorrent crap marketed towards the broadest audience possible within a particular group, for instance men ages 13 - 35, housewives, etc. I would like to eventually (years from now, when I hopefully have more money to spend on setting up frivolous things like this) change to a pc based setup where I can record the TV shows that I do like, and also have stored on it any complete series collection of a TV show or movie that I own on disc. Now here's the complicated part, I'm wondering if there is any program out there that could create a schedule and stream content on different "channels" like cable/satellite/etc. have been doing for decades. Meaning, it would have a science channel, with science themed programs, a scifi channel with scifi themed programming, etc.

    Why? Sometimes I like the randomization and scheduling that TV offers. Its kind of nice sometimes to sit down to watch some TV and see that not only is GATTACA on, but immediately following it is Terminator 2 or Aliens. Or there is a show about the history of Tesla and his inventions immediately followed up by Mythbusters. The joy of this happening I feel is being lost as on demand viewing becomes more prevalent.
    . . .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Illusions View Post
    Alright, I have a question in case anyone has run across something like this. Since I don't watch many TV shows due to finding a lot of current day TV to be abhorrent crap marketed towards the broadest audience possible within a particular group, for instance men ages 13 - 35, housewives, etc. I would like to eventually (years from now, when I hopefully have more money to spend on setting up frivolous things like this) change to a pc based setup where I can record the TV shows that I do like, and also have stored on it any complete series collection of a TV show or movie that I own on disc. Now here's the complicated part, I'm wondering if there is any program out there that could create a schedule and stream content on different "channels" like cable/satellite/etc. have been doing for decades. Meaning, it would have a science channel, with science themed programs, a scifi channel with scifi themed programming, etc.

    Why? Sometimes I like the randomization and scheduling that TV offers. Its kind of nice sometimes to sit down to watch some TV and see that not only is GATTACA on, but immediately following it is Terminator 2 or Aliens. Or there is a show about the history of Tesla and his inventions immediately followed up by Mythbusters. The joy of this happening I feel is being lost as on demand viewing becomes more prevalent.
    I don't know of anything that would do exactly what you want - it kinda defeats the purpose of the whole solution. It doesn't sound like it'd be very hard to implement, but I still can't imagine anyone actually taking the time to do it.

    Closest thing would be that some of the DVR software have an option that will seek out and record shows meeting certain criteria, in addition to the stuff you specifically request. The criteria allowed varies by software, but could be anything from shows it thinks you'll like based on a ratings system, to shows with certain keywords in their descriptions, or movies in a certain genre with a rating above a certain amount.

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    Lately all I have been watching is The Office and Scrubs. I generally never watch TEEVEE. It's always on Hulu, or something else on the web.

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    So Caprica seems to have turned a corner a few episodes ago, and is starting to become pretty good. Anyone else still watching it?

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    I haven't started yet, will watch season 1 as a marathon!

    So I guess this is spam!

    Uhh

    In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
    The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

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    I've watched the first episode, I keep meaning to watch the rest.

    I saw that SG-U will be back in the beginning of April, and that they have a second season. But will it ever be better? Or will it wind up joining Heroes in the "do not want" pile?
    We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.

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    I have been waiting on SG-U to come back on. I watch Bones, NCIS, Bones, and Fringe. I tried watching Caprica, but I just couldn't make myself give a crap. Kind of like most of the last season of BSG.

    and for some reason I always make sure to watch re-runs of Avatar the Last Airbender, and any episode of Behind the Music Remastered.

    Also waiting for Kari Byron to return to Mythbusters at the end of the month. That blonde chick that has been standing in for her is just so damn annoying.

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