television shows i'm about to give up on

1.  GLEE--Sorry guys I just don't care anymore.  After watching The Glee Project last year I was kind of interested in seeing where the writer producer guys would be able to fit the winners of the project into the group.  But it looks like they are not fitting in anywhere.  And the one guy hasn't shown up at all.  And this after concentrating so much gay relationships and bullying and such.  Anyway maybe I'm too old or too straight or they just don't sing my kind of music anymore but I'm finding it difficult to stay interested.

2.  Grey's Anatomy--Again I've stopped caring about the people with the most prominent story lines.  Cristina is an idiot, Meredith is boring.  Give me more Lexie and the guy with the beautiful eyes.  I can't remember his name, but he's got gorgeous eyes.  I may be old but I'm not dead.

3.  The Firm--I thought I would really like this show and I did except they moved it around and skipped a week or so and now I don't know what's going on anymore.  And I think younger people probably have even less patience with time changes and such.  Why do networks do that?  And where the heck is Harry's Law anyway?  I probably will have to give up on that one too.

Okay I'm off topic now so I'll just stop complaining and go watch American Idol.

the walking dead returns

Before the Walking Dead returned for the second half of it's second season AMC reran both the first season and the first half of the second season (yea).  I totally appreciate that even tho I didn't really have time to go back and look at everything I did re-watch some of the episodes and DVRed some of the others to maybe take a look at again.  I usually hate it when a network interrupts a season for what seams like forever for holiday programming, or sports games or awards shows or whatever reason.  Anyway it wasn't really necessary for me to re-watch anything.  Once that show started I was right back in there.  But watching most of the first season again made me see just how much STUFF they crammed into six episodes.  This season seemed  to be moving at a much slower pace.  I'm hoping this is deliberate to further the story.  We all know what happened with LOST.  I think the writers of that show never believed it could last six seasons.  They had the beginning and they had the end (sort of) but then threw all kinds of stuff in the middle that they had to try to explain when they knew when the show would end. 

Anyway to wrap it up in as few words as possible Lori is a pain in the butt and desrves whatever happens to he.  Shane is way to whiny and defensive.  I don't know what is going on with Daryl, or Dale either.  And Andrea is doing remarkably well for someone who wanted to stay behind at the CDC and get blown up.

AND the scene at the bar with Rick and Glen and Herschel and the northerners from Philidelphia was priceless.  I think we all knew what was going to happen.  And then when it did it was like-dang did you see that??  And that still wasn't enough for some viewers--they wanted more zombies--more zombie deaths.  I prefer to call them walkers.  All in all I think this is a special show and I hope it stays that way.

alcatraz

Ok so JJ Abrams created this show, so I should like it as much as I did LOST -from the very beginning.  And I don't, but there are many things that I do like about it.  The music is the same, provides the same feelings I had when I was just getting to know LOST.  Look at me, I'm talking about LOST like it's a person, a friend that I've......lost.  Anyway I was discussing Alcatraz. I will certainly continue to watch there is something interesting about the concept and I'm not one of those viewers that need to have all the answers all at once.  Nor does everything have to make sense to me right away--or even ever under certain circumstances.  I just like a good story with interesting characters--and that's where the problem
is--the characters.  I don't really care enough about these people to even remember their names.

Okay I left this post sit for over a week to see if my feelings about Alcatraz would change after another episode or two.  And the actual story seems to be progressing. It is getting interesting but the one character I really really want to know about is the young Ray (Madsen) Archer.  I wonder how the writers might do that.  I'm starting to remember some of the names.  I really want to like Diego but he is soooo good as a sidekick but not to this young Madsen chick.  Maybe I will like her later.  I will keep watching.

Television shows I've loved before

I was a little bit obsessed with LOST, but not enough to cause me to deny its importance just because the last season wasn't quite right.  I was already a little bit suspicious, thinking maybe the writers hadn't planned the story well enough.  As far as the ending goes, yes I got the meaning of it, and I accept it as a reasonable way to end the show.  It's just that at a time when the writers should have been revealing things, we the viewers felt they were still hiding things.  At least I did.  But I loved the show, particularly the mix of characters. It was a show I never missed.  If I had to work, it was recorded first with my VCR then later with the DVR.  And I bought every season on DVD.

Back a few years before LOST I was a bit addicted to ER.  It conflicted with my work schedule the first couple of years but eventually I wasn't working quite so many nights. And later it showed up in syndication  on TNT and I was more able to do the VCR thing.  And eventually I think I saw every episode except maybe some of the last season.  I also always watched Law And Order.


Going way back there was St. Elsewhere, Cheers, Night Court, and Quantum Leap-oh I just loved Quantum Leap.  And in high school all I needed was Dark Shadows, the Man From U.N.C.L.E. and all the music shows.  And then there was Ben Casey and Dr. Kildare before that.  And The Mickey Mouse Club before that.

I had hoped there would be some common thread tying all my favorite shows together,  but I just don't see one.  I'll have to think about that before I talk about all the TV shows that I love now.