Attack of the Series II: Good Show, Good Times

January 26, 2009

Writing about TV shows took me back to memory lane when eks, PJVP, and I were excited every night to watch the latest season of 24 on DVD. Since eks was the busy one, PJVP and I would wait for him to come home (when he used to live beside my place) because we didn’t want to start without him. And for every time he chose work (*wink*) over watching with us, telling us to watch the episodes without him, I’d feel bad, but I’d watch it anyway. haha.

We’d watch it until 2 or 3 a.m., not minding the lack of sleep and the long day of work the next day. We’d watch it while eating our favorite foods (drive-thru fastfoods hehe), or preferred watching than eating (well, not really). Heck, we’d watch it even if my player breaks down from long hours of playing—and it did break! I remembered the three of us panicking because the player broke at the middle of a very exciting scene (almost all scenes were exciting) and tried everything to fix the player. But since it had no heart and wouldn’t cooperate, we decided to finish it on eks’ 14-inch LCD computer (good thing it has good video cards), trying to do all we can to make the sound louder and to make the 24 experience better.

 

 

But is there something better than watching a good show with good friends and loved ones?

 

Good times!

Attack of the Series I: My Monday-Night Show

  

I missed wanting to go home before 9 p.m. every Monday night to be on time for Charmed. Although I know that I can watch it on DVDs, there’s still something exciting about scheduling your time to catch your favorite show and doing everything to fit the TV show on your schedule (not finishing work, not attending parties, not talking to anyone hehe). This I did for a long period, I guess to have something to look forward to every week.

But there are other TV shows that I had to refrain myself not to watch on TV, not because I hate the show but because I love it so much! These are the shows that one episode is a big NO CAN DO, these are the shows that make me want to go home early (around 4 p.m.) and sleep early (2 a.m.) hehe. These are House, 24, and Naruto.

Just last year, I decided to watch Friends to, well, make me smile before I sleep, and true enough, it’s a very funny show. I watched several episodes every night when I come home from the office until I finished all the seasons, even my mom got hooked with Rachel Greene and Ross Geller’s long and winding love story.

Lately, I’ve “discovered” the three CSIs, and I watch them every time they’re being shown on AXN or Foxcrime, usually CSI followed by CSI Miami. I think they’re not the latest seasons, but they definitely are new to me. I do not go home early nor decline attending a party for these shows yet, but my time at home is better spent watching them than any other shows in their timeslot. I found the technological advancements of CSI fascinating, making me wish we had an agency like that here (or do you think SOCO qualifies?). Similarly to Jack Bauer and Gregory House, I admire the cunning brilliance of the agents: They can tell what the last meal of the dead victim was or the weight loss pills that were mixed to sedative that created a deadly chemical reaction. That insatiable hunger for knowledge and obsessive search for truth are attitudes appealing to me.

I’m also starting to watch Numb3rs. I’m never good in math, but sometimes I feel I understand the complex equations explaining or predicting a circumstance or person’s actions. Oftentimes, I pretend I understand. hehe.