TV Meme: Day 5

[hsapiens]

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled: Firefly
Day 02 - A show that you wish more people were watching: In Plain Sight
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season): {White Collar & The Vampire Diaries are pretty but shallow; Royal Pains is shallow but pretty}
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever: Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Stargate SG-1, Firefly, Queer as Folk, and Farscape. Supernatural makes the cut on a technicality (ignoring serious gender issues) for its prescience in employing Misha Collins.
Day 05 - A show you hate:

I was stumped on this because I reserve hate for sins like hypocrisy and intolerance; television doesn't inspire emotion of that sort in me. Can I choose any FOX "news" program? Yes, I think I can and I shall. They embody the hypocrisy and intolerance that DOES inspire my rage.

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

Comments

[luvmax1.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right. He says of all these horrible, malicious things, and then gives an interview to a major paper that his show is entertainment only, not serious political commentary. So basically, he's a liar, too.

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

That's partly what makes me wonder if he doesn't say 99% of the garbage he spews because it gets ratings and pays well. He's such a waste of carbon that I've passed caring why he does or says anything. He's either too stupid or too disingenuous -- and both are intellectually bankrupt.

[luvmax1.livejournal.com]

I wish I could get my father to believe that. He actually wanted me to get him Beck's latest book for Father's Day. Not on God's green earth, was my response to that one.

Now that I think about it, someone I despise as much as Beck is Ann Coulter. My father did buy her latest book a while back, and I read some of it. I was absolutely flabbergasted by her comments that Jews are just wannabe Christians who haven't followed through. That was just one of her memorable quotes.

The problem with people like Beck and Coulter is that while you and I may dismiss their propaganda and crap, a hell of a lot of people don't. And that just terrifies me.

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Preaching to the choir. My parents arrived last night and I'm HORRIFIED that they've turned on FOX news and are watching it all day. Used to be they showed up and Mom turned on HGTV and had it on all day.

I was adopted. I must have been.

Coulter for me tips the scales between intellectually bankrupt towards maliciously immoral. (For a non-religious type, I adopt their sense of right and wrong and talk about people is remarkably similar terms.) She purposefully targets real human beings for her spewage and causes real damage. By that I mean that Obama knew what he was getting into and decided it was worth it; widows of 9/11 victims didn't. I think Beck's type (weak willed and weak minded) might be complicit in a Holocaust while Coulter's type (actively reveling in causing pain) would gleefully supply the gas.

And I've now lost the internet debate because I've invoked the Holocaust. Which is wrong because there's no way anything they've done is the moral equivalent. I'm blaming my fail on crankiness over the television choices and my lack of imagination to come up with a better explication of my views on the diff between the two types of assholes on FOX.

[luvmax1.livejournal.com]

yeah, I think the Holocaust might be going a little too far, at least in Beck's case. For all of his bluster and pontificating, I don't really hear any anti Semitic rhetoric. Coulter, on the other hand...

My father has been alternating between Fox News and ESPN, at least around dinner time. I loathe most sports (except figure skating), but I still find ESPN somewhat more tolerable. Somewhat.