TV Show Meme! Day 4!

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Day 04 - Your favorite show ever

This is hard. This is hard because for a very long time, my favorite television show was Swans Crossing, a half-hour teen drama from 1992 that only aired 65 episodes. It starred (in order of how famous they are now) Sarah Michelle Gellar, Brittany Daniel, Shane McDermott, and a bunch of people I am comfortable saying that you have never heard of. It was convoluted, totally ridiculous, and had its own dance (that link is to the YouTube video of the music video they made for the full-length version of theme song). I was twelve, it was half amazing and half totally stupid (and the stupid parts, I fixed with fanfic).

But... I don't think that is my favorite show anymore. I mean, I have almost all the episodes (I had them on videotape and I digitally converted them several years ago and burned them to DVD) -- and someone posted them all to YouTube (here's the first part of the first episode). I still remember everything about the show, all the trivia, all the ridiculous stuff. When I was in junior high, my younger sister was on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and I went with her and my mom to the filming solely because it was filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens -- where Swans Crossing had been filmed in studio G. Even though it was more than a year later, Swans Crossing was still on the board. I tried to take pictures, but that was before digital cameras -- I had a small point and shoot and all the pictures were ruined by the flash.

But if you click through when you get to YouTube and look at any of the episodes, you'll see why I don't watch it anymore. I mean, it's pretty terrible -- the writing, the acting, the production values. The plot.

(I am thinking about writing a Swans Crossing story for kink_bingo, though, since I always thought Glory and Callie should have ditched their loser boyfriends and hooked up!)

So yeah. What's my favorite show now? What does "favorite show" even mean? Is it the show I watch the most often? The show that makes me the happiest? The show that is the most satisfying? I don't know. If you walk into my living room on any given day, there are a few shows you may notice are on in the background while I work: Doctor Who (Nine or Ten); Farscape; The Office (mostly seasons 2 and 3); Alias (I rewatch all of Alias every year); Leverage (new to the rotation but no less satisfying for it!); The West Wing (usually only seasons 1 - 3); Star Trek: The Next Generation

(Right now my copies of the due South dvds are in storage; if they weren't, they'd be in this rotation, too.)

(These aren't the only shows I watch, but they are my comfort shows, when I need comfortable background noise.)

I might be leaving something out, but if I am, I can't think of it at the moment.



Other days...
Day 01 - A show that should have never been canceled
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death