Friday Poll!
Oct. 5th, 2007 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trinityvixenHurrah, I've actually got time to write up the poll this week! About bloody time. This week's poll is generally about TV-watching habits, so please ring in. Comment wherever options have not left you room to properly express yourself.
[Poll #1066558]
I just...I'm boggled at how much television I've consumed in just the past year. I was looking over my spreadsheet where I record the series I've watched this year, and I'm floored to see that the number of seasons is a real contender to challenge the number of movies I've seen this year. I spent the entire month of September, practically, on television alone (from the end of August to mid-September, I'd seen one new movie--that is unheard of for me). This is especially redonkulous when you consider how long it takes to watch an entire season of something (which is how I'm "counting" the number of shows watched; each season counts as one). Sure, there's some padding of the number by me counting the individual installments of Old Skool Doctor Who, but I can't possibly break that down into seasons (it would be silly, for one thing).
But still! All those hours spent on TV!I never was a TV junkie. I've always been a movie-magpie. I watched roughly two things on television before going off to college: The X-Files and Farscape. I dabbled in other shows, and like everyone else I watched The Simpsons, but those were the only two shows I watched with any regularity. And Buffy, I guess. Okay, so that's three. That's three shows that I routinely (and still not very dedicatedly) watched for nearly twenty years. Otherwise, it was Saturday morning cartoons and not much else.
This was helped along by my mother's occasional fits over TV watch-age. Every so often, she'd ressurrect the one-hour rule and it would hold for a few months. So, it's quite possible that my new obsession with TV shows and mass consumption thereof has something to do with that. Or maybe TV really has gotten better. I think it might be a little of both. TV is attracting a lot of named talent these days, and it's hardly got the stigma it used to (as a dumping ground for actors and actresses on the outs with fame). I just can't figure out how I went from, "Ooh, Farscape! Oh, wait, I have plans. I'll catch it later" to watching television almost every weeknight and owning several shows on DVD. Weird.
[Poll #1066558]
I just...I'm boggled at how much television I've consumed in just the past year. I was looking over my spreadsheet where I record the series I've watched this year, and I'm floored to see that the number of seasons is a real contender to challenge the number of movies I've seen this year. I spent the entire month of September, practically, on television alone (from the end of August to mid-September, I'd seen one new movie--that is unheard of for me). This is especially redonkulous when you consider how long it takes to watch an entire season of something (which is how I'm "counting" the number of shows watched; each season counts as one). Sure, there's some padding of the number by me counting the individual installments of Old Skool Doctor Who, but I can't possibly break that down into seasons (it would be silly, for one thing).
But still! All those hours spent on TV!I never was a TV junkie. I've always been a movie-magpie. I watched roughly two things on television before going off to college: The X-Files and Farscape. I dabbled in other shows, and like everyone else I watched The Simpsons, but those were the only two shows I watched with any regularity. And Buffy, I guess. Okay, so that's three. That's three shows that I routinely (and still not very dedicatedly) watched for nearly twenty years. Otherwise, it was Saturday morning cartoons and not much else.
This was helped along by my mother's occasional fits over TV watch-age. Every so often, she'd ressurrect the one-hour rule and it would hold for a few months. So, it's quite possible that my new obsession with TV shows and mass consumption thereof has something to do with that. Or maybe TV really has gotten better. I think it might be a little of both. TV is attracting a lot of named talent these days, and it's hardly got the stigma it used to (as a dumping ground for actors and actresses on the outs with fame). I just can't figure out how I went from, "Ooh, Farscape! Oh, wait, I have plans. I'll catch it later" to watching television almost every weeknight and owning several shows on DVD. Weird.
