Television Programming

I'm not generally a big TV 'watcher'. But there are a few shows that I don't miss: (in no particular order):

1) Smallville.
I'm a HUGE fan of the show. I joined this party late, but I absolutely love it. It is all stories built in a land of comic book heroism, which was a childhood obsession that still grabs my imagination today.

Smallville is an entire series that is an origin story. It is a coming of age tale showing the path Clark Kent walks to go from farm boy to the greatest hero of all time, but it also much more than that. Watching Lex Luthor develop from a spoiled rich kid with a decent heart to an evil mastermind is actually more interesting to me than Clark's story. How does Lois Lane go from college dropout to super reporter? How does Chloe go from ace reporter for a high school newspaper to "Watchtower" (the computer geek information specialist for the Justice League. As if I had to explain that...)

It is all interesting to me. There are some stories I could do without. But the show itself is great. I watch it every Friday.

2) Chuck
I will admit it. I did not like this show when it first aired. Shana kind of liked it, so we watched it, but it was basically a show we watched while we waited for Heroes to come on. It had a hot chick (Sarah), so I wasn't complaining. But it was a throwaway show really.

But giving the show a chance, it really started to pick up. The characters that seemed just 'throwaway' suddenly became interesting. Adam Baldwin started as a very one dimensional 'tough guy', but actually developed into somebody I cared about.

I can't explain why I like Chuck. And, if you sit down for just 1-2 episodes...you will probably dismiss it. But if you watch it over the course of an entire season...I think you MAY really fall in love with it.

3) Castle
Castle is a show about Nathan Fillion. It is a cop show that is fairly standard "situational crime drama" tripe. It reminds me a lot of "Murder, She Wrote", except that the part of the old woman is played by Nathan Fillion. (Well, he isn't technically an old woman. As far as I know)

Nathan Fillion makes the show watchable. The only reason I started watching this show is because Nathan Fillion played Malcom Reynolds on Firefly, a show I loooooooooooooove. And...the only reason I still watch it is because Nathan Fillion is on it.

He plays snarky and self assured so well, and has great comedic timing. I will seriously watch any show/movie/school play that this man stars in, and this program is no exception.

4) Holmes on Homes
One thing could be said about me that I will not argue in the slightest: I am not a handyman.

I don't know much about carpentry that I haven't seen on TV. I don't know much about Plumbing, electrical work, gardening, landscaping, motors, or cars. The closest I have ever come to that was working with my Uncle while I was in high school doing some roofing projects.

So I can carry shingles up a ladder, and I know generally what the steps are to putting a shingle roof on a house.

I know computers. I know a little bit about programming. I can make the blinking 12 go away on any VCR on planet earth. But I couldn't frame an interior wall correctly if my life depended on it.

That said...I love watching Mike Holmes. I love watching other people work.

5) Deadliest Catch

I've wrote about this before, and I still love this show.