I don't watch a lot of TV.
No, wait. I don't watch a lot of current TV.
Basically what it is is my stubborn refusal to process a story at a rate of one hour per week. I bought the Battlestar Galactica boxset without having seen a single episode, and it was still one of the best purchases I ever made, meh-tastic ending and all. Buffy, Angel and Firefly were all discovered after they had ended, as were Deep Space Nine, Babylon Five and, of course, classic Doctor Who. I picked up Game of Thrones between the second and third seasons (after going and reading the books, naturally).
A couple of years ago, when Dollhouse got renewed for a second season I finally started to watch that. I didn't want to bother having another Firefly on my hands, where I got emotionally invested in a story that was then cut cruelly short (...oops). Now Agents of SHIELD is in the same place, and, yay?
In a way I guess it's sort of a sort of vindication. (Sort of a sort? Note to the blogger: you are not Charles Dickens, meaning you're not paid by the word.) I am now free to express interest in a show that was watched by enough people not to get murdered in the crib by the network. (Or, rather, a show that ties into movies that statistically everyone has seen, and has thus avoided getting murdered in the crib by virtue of being a link to money-printing machines.)
So. Because this year's run got spread out over so long (I'm assuming that's the reason), the most recent episode I could get from Xfinity On Demand was "Turn, Turn, Turn." Conveniently, this is the episode where the show gets good. Inconveniently, it part of a series of heavily-interconnected episodes of which it is not the first.
Still, it was rather good. So was the second one I got to see, "Providence." (I find Patton Oswalt's ascent to geek godhood puzzling, but he's not obnoxious here.) Consider me very interested. Can't wait for the season to get here on DVD so I can burn through it all at once.
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