Graduating to a new era.

[pen_grunt]

Tonight, I watch the last episode in the last season of "Little House on the Prairie".

I've been watching an average of 2 episodes per night, five nights a week. There are about 27 episodes a season and nine seasons...which means....

*calculating*

I've been watching Little House for about 6 months, and what an emotional journey it has been. Nearly every episode is a "very special" episode, and crying whilst running is sort of an interesting experience.

To track my running shows, I've gone from CSI (on TV), to Star Trek: The Original Series, to Little House on the Prairie. Tomorrow I start Star Trek: The Next Generation.

I'm time shifting/jumping.

I wish there were more Little House.

More disturbingly, what am I going to watch after I make it through 7 seasons of ST:TNG? I need a good hour long (scheduled) show to follow (half hour shows end up being WAY too short for an hour and a half run--I have to watch 4-5 shows in a day). I might jump into ER--but I only have the first season of that.

Despair!

Comments

[irishinmn.livejournal.com]

Try Season One of Nip Tuck.

Its rather addictive.

[irishsbuffy.livejournal.com]

NIP/TUCK a show that keeps getting better and better

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I'm not into really soap-opera-y shows (which is why I only like the first few seasons of ER).

Nip Tuck...hmm...is it soapy?

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

Oh! I should also ask: Is Nip Tuck finished? I can't start on a show series that isn't finished, it'll drive me nuts.

ER, for me, is FINISHED (it's gotten fairly bad) so I can watch that...but I couldn't start going through Law and Order chronologically, or even CSI, or House (though I like all those shows).

[irishinmn.livejournal.com]

Nip Tuck is still going .....

Series 3 is supposedly a bit weak (we're partially thru season 2) but recovered in Season 4.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I'll have to wait until it's done (or pretty done) to add it into the running rotation :)

[lisa-e-is-me.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean...my husband and I caught on to The Sopranos pretty late - about halfway through Season 3. We liked it so much that I decided that we had no choice but to go back and watch every episode we had missed, and this was either before it was out on DVD, or before I knew that shows came out on DVD, so I hopped on eBay and purchased VHA tapes of all the ones we'd missed. We literally sat for an entire weekend, pausing only to prepare meals, use the restroom, and sleep, watching every single satisfying second of it. Once we were caught up, we were sort of disappointed. Now, the show is STILL going, albeit finally grinding to a halt, and we've had to wait for ridiculous amounts of time between seasons, and I wish now we had just waited until it was all done and started from the beginning.

One show that I can't say for sure is available on DVD, but that I think would be a fantastic one to sit down and watch from beginning to end is "The Wonder Years". Also, there was another HBO show called "Six Feet Under" that went on for several seasons, and in my opinion had a GREAT finale. You do have to endure quite a bit of bad language, sex and nudity, but if you are okay with that, the characters are rich and the writing is good.

[pen-grunt.livejournal.com]

I've never watched The Sopranos...first it was because we didn't have HBO--now it's because I want to wait til they're all done if I'm going to start.

I haven't seen The Wonder Years since I was a kid--that would be awesome if I could find it.

Six Feet Under you say? Worth investigating...

[irishsbuffy.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!