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What is your favorite TV show?
- Thread starter SaintMalachi
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Man, I ended up watching both of those because I heard so many good things, and I really disliked both of them. Maybe I missed something that others saw.
I'm curious- what about those shows makes them among your favorites?
Darkness
Psychoanalyst/Marxist
FLCL is cute and endearing. I love Hideaki Anno. Cowboy Bebop is uneventful. I have watched random episodes on Adult Swim and they never seem to do much of anything.
Evangelion and Elfen Lied are essentially psychological dramas.
To me, Evangelion is more about the flaws in each person's character that they either have to overcome or get crushed beneath them. Some characters survive and others falter. Shinji is just an average troubled teen, who is thrown into an impossible situation and becomes even more damaged than before. I guess I can personally relate to him in some ways, since I was quite introverted and wimpy when I was his age. The ending to Evangelion was fantastic, because it was merely his psyche working out the internal contradictions and finding happiness inside himself or at least existential commitment.
Elfen Lied is fun and engaging, because it is a battle between two adversarial species and the morality play that ensues. Essentially, it resolves around the deep psychological trauma the main characters must endure. For instance, Lucy has an instinctual drive to kill humans and reproduce her species in the process, but feels guilty by murdering so many people. Kurama is serving humanity by experimenting and destroying the Diclonious, but also feels guilty for killing and torturing the Diclonious, who are all children.
Yeah, I saw FLCL as a teen and it was so ridiculous that I liked it.
As for Cowboy Bebop, the series works like this: There are 26 episodes, but only about five of the episodes have to do with the main plot (episodes 5, 12, 13, 25, 26). Those five episodes are among the best, but the other 21 episodes are all about character development rather than driving the plot. I'd recommend watching it from beginning to last. There's also a movie out for it, which I think is excellent (probably better than the series imo).
I see.
I pretty much got all that but it just didn't really click with me, I guess. I didn't really like the main characters of either of those series (although I liked the middle few episodes of Elfen Lied).
MasterChef
The Simpsons
Match of the day
Mash rerun
Father Ted
The Young ones
Casualty
Time team
The Simpsons
Match of the day
Mash rerun
Father Ted
The Young ones
Casualty
Time team
Anyone remember Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction?
Darkness
Psychoanalyst/Marxist
Is that the one with Jonathan Frakes?
rockstarwife628
Member
House
Psych
Family Guy
Psych
Family Guy
Draka
Wonder Woman
Yeah, reruns are still on.
Spartacus Blood and sand,series has finnished,i wasn't watching it for all the naked Women and mindless violence though.
The next one is the Borgias,this should be good as its got Jeremy Irons in it
The next one is the Borgias,this should be good as its got Jeremy Irons in it
hamza abdulhakim
New Member
Hello,
It changes from time to time, but at the moment I can't decide between House and Dexter. They both are great series with even greater characters.
It changes from time to time, but at the moment I can't decide between House and Dexter. They both are great series with even greater characters.
