January 28, 2007 11:02 PM
Over the last few weeks, I think two to three or so, I have been watching Third Watch. Now I used to watch this show when it was on Channel 9 here. I'd watch it with my mum and I'd watch Stargate and Seaquest with my dad. Then I got a TV of my own and I stopped watching shows with them and thus, stopped watching those shows. I guess I watched videos instead. About a month ago I happened to catch an episode on TV, so much had happened. So I managed to get a copy of all the episodes ... I'm missing Seasons 3 and 5, but I decided to skip over those rather than wait. So there are things that I've missed, but I've gotten the general gist of it.
I've just finished watching the final episode. I cried, honestly who couldn't. I'm sick of TV shows ending. They really need to go with the UK way of thinking about TV, which is "let's make lots of short series that are all kind of similar, that way, people will invest in the concept, rather than the idea". If you invest 6 years in a show, you're going to feel a loss when they're gone. Late in the second season, one of the characters dies, I cried, mostly because I'd gone all these years without knowing that he had died because I never saw those episodes.
Coming up this year is the end of Stargate SG1 as a television series. I've become incredibly invested in this show and in the idea of this show. I've idolised the characters, I thought about going to a convention and one day, I might just do that. This show has been going on for 10 years, that's a long time to know anyone, let alone someone who does something each week that makes your admiration for them swell. They have made over 200 episodes and I have seen every one, every single one. I've gone out of my way to see specials on the show. They brought in a couple of new actors who had been in another sci-fi show and I thought, shit, they're going to be on Stargate, I need to get to know them. So I watched their entire series and movie. I quite liked it, but honestly, who goes to those lengths for a TV show. I do and now they're ending it on me. Sure they have two movies in the works, but 2 hours of stargate a year is a whole lot less than 20 hours.
Now I know there's Stargate Atlantis, that's all well and good, but they're different, it will never be the same to me as SG1 has been. The redeeming factor is that my favourite character will be going across. for 14 out of the 20 episodes. Honestly, I'd like to see Jackson across there as well. He has a reason to be there, as does Carter, the rest of SG1 is just kind of replaceable though, you know, a body is a body, they don't really add too much intelligence to the story. Not that they aren't great characters, but there are already characters that fit their description on Atlantis. I really enjoy the interaction between McKay and Carter and I feel it will benefit the Atlantis show greatly.
A lot of people don't seem to share my opinion though. This is fine, they're entitled to not like the character, but they do need to give it a chance to see how it works. The people who quit watching a show because they're not pleased with the addition or subtraction of a character annoy me a bit, I guess they're not as invested in shows as I am though.
I haven't yet watched the second half of the last season of Sex and the City. I didn't get overly invested in that show. I enjoyed watching it, but I wasn't obsessed. I don't want that show to end, but I don't have enough of a commitment to HAVE to see what happens. I guess it's because it's not so much of an ongoing story arc as it is a series of smaller happenings.
That is all, or else I'll be here all night venting about shows I wish were still on. It kind of looks like I have no life and I suppose I don't, but someone's gotta watch TV, or else actors will be out of work and we can't have that!
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Okay, I know I've been doing little more than posting videos from You Tube recently, but this one is relevant, it's the film clip for this year's theme song. Have a look.