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Re: TV--some rambles

Buffy is "gay?" Don't think so. Hey, I watch it.* Also:

Angel (whole family likes this show. The "Host" who ran the karaoke bar is everyone's big favorite.**)

Smallville (whole family likes this show too. Thank God teenage girls are played by actual adults so my drooling over Lana does not qualify me as a perv.)

X-Files (okay, it sucks now, but I want to see how it turns out. Robert Patrick rises so far above the material he probably needs oxygen)

Enterprise (not bad, but shows mostly imitations of stuff that has been done already. Of course, after decades of Star Trek shows, and then going back to Lost in Space and the rest, how many "spaceship flies into the unknown and finds aliens" stories haven't been done at least twice?)

Andromeda (Hey, the spaceship is cool. With producer Wolfe gone, doesn't look hopeful.)

Most of my TV gets taped in prime time while I work with kids, help with homework, make supper, and help do all the crap necessary to keep a house and family going. It gets stacked up and we manage to watch shows when live TV goes into reruns. Very rarely does the family actually sit down and watch a prime time show live on a school night.

Used to watch:

Babylon 5 (best SF on TV)

Hercules (guilty pleasure. sorry. But hey, they had BRUCE CAMPBELL in them!)

Xena***

Special Unit 2 (really sorry)

Lois and Clark (big favorite of my wife's. She taped them all.)

Okay, so I'm pretty much a pushover for any SF/Fantasy. There ARE other things. Almost any science or nature documentary on Discovery or other channels can suck me in if I turn it on. The best science documentaries ever made, Connections, Ascent of Man, and Cosmos, I am fortunate enough to have on DVD.

Other things on DVD:

Just got Fawlty Towers Complete Set! John Cleese is a god.

Haven't gotten the nerve to spend the cash for the Prisoner complete set. Or Monty Python. Or the Avengers. Or the Michael Palin travelogues. Cripes, there goes the retirement fund...

The psycho who created "Thumb Wars" has also put "The Blair Thumb" and "Thumbtanic" on DVD, and shows no signs of stopping. I must have them all.

If someone put the original Outer Limits on DVD, I could die happy.

A bit of great news: Nero Wolfe on A&E starting new shows in April!!

* Okay, kind of left myself open there. But I still think Willow should be with Oz. Now "Charmed" is gay.

** Okay, so he's more than a little gay. No pattern here or anything.

***All right. I give up.

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