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.)
