Holy fucking crap...(TV!)

[pyoor_excuse]

Okay, you may not twig this from recent journal posts but I'm so not a TV person. My standard TV requirements for the last few years can be summarised in one line:

Dead Like Me; The L Word; Battlestar Galactica; Hustle.

I watched Lost. I even got quite into Lost. Then I went to Alaska, got out of Lost and now can't even find the enthusiasm to watch it. I may do at some point, but it generally fills a space. Films. Films I watch. I love films.

Anyway, so, Life On Mars. Each week I say the same thing: "That was the best episode ever". But that one, that last one, episode 7 of 8, I barely breathed during the whole hour. I was so tense for the entire programme. I don't think I've ever been so tense for an entire TV programme. I am desparate to see next week's episode.

And nervous about it too; it being the last in the series. Is it a one off series? Is he going to die? What the hell is going to happen. It's insane, he's in a coma and this richly textured world around him... it'll all be gone? All these people, figments of his imagination. Gaaah. Anyway, it's fucking excellent. Totally fucking excellent. It's insanely well written. If you've not seen it, you should. Now. It's torrentable, and it takes my breath away every week.

Incidentally, BSG episode 16, also goram excellent. It's bizzare. I'm so used to not-really-watching TV that when I do, it's stuff I really want to watch and, well, the stuff I watch is really tailored to my taste, so I have a very skewed view of how good TV is :)

Comments

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on Life on Mars. Tonight's episode was just brilliant, and I'm itching to see how they wrap it up - if at all. It's been such exciting stuff, with very little given away at all - we still don't know what's going on.

A real gem.

[pyoor_excuse]

Isn't it just. I'm still desparate to see next week's episode. For the first time in my entire life I actually planned my work shifts around a TV show. How sad am I?!

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

Haha! I recently felt extremely sad when examining the contents of a super-nerdy sci-fi magazine, and realising it contained articles on all my current fave shows. :)

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

Me too! I missed last week's sadly, but this weeks was excellent. And as to next week - whee - the trailer!

One thing I find interesting is that the writers of this cut their teeth writing EastEnders - and thinking about it several of the new Doctor Who episodes were written by soap episodes - so its a bit of a shame they don't have the chance to do more original drama.

[pyoor_excuse]

It is, isn't it. But the BBC's been producing some truly excellent drama the last few years; the new Dr Who, Hustle and now Life on Mars. I just hope it's a trend that continues...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Love Life on Mars, but I'm just getting into BSG and it is indeed frackin' brilliant. So dark and complex and better-scripted than any TV sci-fi I can remember.

Oh, and the PunkaWallahs song is excellent too :) Clearly you have taste.

[pyoor_excuse]

Where are you up to with BSG? It does just get darker - and the characters richer as time goes on. I'm utterly hooked.

And of course I have taste ;-)
I just wish I could get an original of the PunaWallahs song...

[multiphonikks.livejournal.com]

She said frackin'!

*Passes out on floor as another Katism makes it into the wider world*

This entire series is the best thing that the BBC has done this year. I wish I could meet the writer(s). I'd take them out and get them royally pissed as a thank you .

I've been caught in some kind of mixed emotion about the show though. Yes, it'd be great to see it take on another season but what if it became stale? I'd rather remember it for the one season that was mind-blowingly good.

As much fun as you can have sitting in front of a TV sober I reckon... :)

[pyoor_excuse]

Frackin' isn't a Kateism. It's a BSGism. Of course, I've always said frack, and they, I'm sure, overheard me years ago and decided to use it as their substitute non-swear word.