Counterpoint: I am as good at finding excellent television for you, if not better, and you never listen and then sometimes, it's TOO LATE.
1. Stargate SG-1: We didn't have cable in college, so we were stuck with the regular network stations. This was fine with me, since I also didn't have cable growing up. I knew where to find excellent syndicated television. Including the crown jewel: Stargate SG-1, which aired on FOX25 Saturday afternoons. I believe you caught me watching it a few times and made fun of me. I tried to tell you about the good writing and the excellent characters, but all you could see were wormholes and aliens. Then we moved into an apartment, with cable, and OH HOW THE TABLES TURNED! Now, Stargate was on Sci-Fi, and it's awesomeness punched you right in the eye. Ha! Not only did I introduce to Stargate, but if not for Stargate, you might never have learned of Battlestar Galactica or Stargate: Atlantis. So there.
2. Wonderfalls: This show was on FOX for like a second, and like all excellent shows that I immediately fall in love with (Firefly, Fastlane, etc.), FOX took it away from me. You had watched an episode or two, but you were kind of meh about it. I tried to tell you. I TRIED. You gave it another shot this year when you rented it on Netflix. And you loved it. But you know what, Ro? Too fucking late. Maybe if you had given it a proper chance when it was one, FOX wouldn't have canceled it. I blame YOU.
Uh, I can't think of more TV right this second. However, I can think of times that you introduced me to terrible, terrible TV that I was then forced to watch seasons of because I needed, despite the terrible, to find out what happened. Like the times you made me watch 7th Heaven. It started out as a joke, because it was on before Angel, and we would watch it to make fun of it. But then we kept watching it long after it stopped being funny to do so. We called it the punishment, and we said that it made Angel seem that much better. I hate you.
And Charmed. Oh Charmed. You got me all sucked in to this crapfest, a parade of boring bad acting mixed with Rose McGowan's over the top bad acting and Alyssa Milano's boobs. And now I have to watch it til it's over, because I like Piper and I need to find out what happens. Hate.
Now I'm kind of angry at you. Good work.
Hey, who introduced who to Dude, Where's My Car? Or was that a mutual introduction because of that time we had HBO Zoom! for free and it was on all the time?
I will admit, that time we watched Boy Meets World every day for months was great.
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