Of course, my take on it is undoubtedly skewed by my own viewing preferences - I don't watch the big soaps, I don't watch quiz or game shows, I'm not a fan of "homey Sunday night drama".
Yes, yes, yes. With the honourable exceptions of Dr Who and Life on Mars hubby and I are almost entirely dependent on US TV for are viewing fixes.
I was trying to remember if I'd ever been as invested in a TV show before West Wing came along, and I really don't think I was.
I'm probably what ought to be called a serial fan girl (or crone in my case) so I have been invested before and probably will be again but I know that once your series is gone it leaves a huge hole. Sometimes the obsessive love will strike again when you least expect it and sometimes it doesn't for years.
It's been nearly a year since WW ended. And there's still nothing - for me - that fills the void it's left behind.
It hurts doesn't it. Rewatching WW is hugely enjoyable, though at the moment I'm trying to summon up the courage to go post-Gaza, but nothing beats a first run series and the excitement that it generates. A friend of mine is very into Heroes and I do enjoy that but it doesn't have anything like the gravitas and the sheer humanity of WW at its best. It's a series that's going to be very hard to beat for a long time.
BTW we have very similar tastes in TV because we loved Babylon 5 too :)
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Yes, yes, yes. With the honourable exceptions of Dr Who and Life on Mars hubby and I are almost entirely dependent on US TV for are viewing fixes.
I was trying to remember if I'd ever been as invested in a TV show before West Wing came along, and I really don't think I was.
I'm probably what ought to be called a serial fan girl (or crone in my case) so I have been invested before and probably will be again but I know that once your series is gone it leaves a huge hole. Sometimes the obsessive love will strike again when you least expect it and sometimes it doesn't for years.
It's been nearly a year since WW ended. And there's still nothing - for me - that fills the void it's left behind.
It hurts doesn't it. Rewatching WW is hugely enjoyable, though at the moment I'm trying to summon up the courage to go post-Gaza, but nothing beats a first run series and the excitement that it generates. A friend of mine is very into Heroes and I do enjoy that but it doesn't have anything like the gravitas and the sheer humanity of WW at its best. It's a series that's going to be very hard to beat for a long time.
BTW we have very similar tastes in TV because we loved Babylon 5 too :)