If you read my tweets (and I hope for your sanity that you don’t), then you know when I find a TV show I like (especially if it’s a few years old when I discover), I will not shut up about it. Usually it’s because I’m watching it on my own and tweeting my reactions is the only way I can share my experience. I would explode if I didn’t tell someone how much I hated Gaius Baltar on Battlestar Galactica.
So I thought I’d explore the TV shows I’ve become obsessed with (as TV show obsession seems to be a recent phenomenon).
Doctor Who (BBC): I didn’t so much tweet barf about this TV show as much as I internet barfed about it. Blogs, videos, you name it. I was turned onto this show by Charlie McDonnell on YouTube (charlieissocoollike), because he talked about it so much. Reason I think this counts as an obsession: To catch up to the fifth season (which was about to start when my brother and I decided to start watching), I would get up a half hour earlier every morning before school to watch an episode whilst eating breakfast. For perspective, we had to make sure we were packed and ready for school at six am to start watching. SIX AM. SO I’D HAVE TO GET UP AT 5:30.
Battlestar Galactica (SyFy): This is the first show I went off my rocker with completely. From the very first episode I was tweeting like mad. “Courtroom drama AND science fiction?!? Best day ever!!” “STARBUCK NOOO!!!” “Hallucination Baltar is way more fun.” “Everyone on galactica is an alcoholic. It’s almost funny.” “God, Gaius. You’re such a pansy coward.” (Interesting fact. While I was looking through these old #bsg tweets I got to read over my spending the night in an airport tweets and it’s really funny. “goal for the night: don’t get raped.” “night’s goal completed: no rapage”.) “LEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HURRY UP” “Shave the ‘stache, Admiral. You look like a pedophile.” And finally… “The most important part of my day has become fitting battlestar galactica into my schedule.”
In all, I think probably half of my total tweets are about Battlestar Galactica. I got so into that show, and I don’t even really know why. It was a massive religious metaphor (which is something I usually don’t get into), stressful to watch, and featured this one character that I wanted to die from the very beginning who ended up being one of the only people to survive. But it was set in space, had this super hot captain turned lawyer, and was one of the nerdiest things I’ve ever seen. My stomach does little excited flips just THINKING about it. According to TweetStats, I used the #bsg on 130 tweets, and that doesn’t even count the tweets I FORGOT to hashtag.
LOST (ABC): My mom, brother, and I all got hooked on this show at the same time, about the end of the summer. It was more of a guilty pleasure show than anything else, since most of it is just hilariously ridiculous, but it’s worth mentioning. It’s like meth… not even once. Unless you want to be forced to watch every episode until the end. And then forget about it. Except for at parties when people mention it and you’re like “oh man that show was GREAT.” and then the other person is like “but the finale sucked, yo.” and then you’re like “LIES.”
…see? Obsessed.
Dexter (Showtime): This is all my mom and brother’s fault. I watched seasons 1-4 (with about half of season 3 and 4 already have been watched) in a week. Exactly a week. Just read [Dec 6] Monday’s blog for a more in depth “I’m completely obsessed” Dexter post. Also, the season 4 finale is horrible and brilliant at the same time.
So why do I get so obsessed with these shows? I don’t exactly know. A lot of it is probably the brilliant story crafting and characterization. The writing is superb and fresh and there are very rarely bad episodes. Thank God for the internet and instant gratification satiation.
