TV Shows

World, I'm re-watching most of my beloved TV shows (The X-Files, Xena: Warrior Princess, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Alias, Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Heroes, some of Dawson's Creek, House M.D., ) but also some shows I've never seen (Lost, Supernatural, maybe The West Wing). The deal is, that I'm watching the episodes of all of this shows in the order in which they were aired.

Yup. You read that right.

I've made a gigantic excel sheet of a document that serves as a TV Guide - let's me know when the episodes were aired, and when to watch them. I'm knee deep in it, I still watch in marathon fashion when I have a chance, but if not I just catch an episode here and there. It's nice because it keeps me from just watching episode after episode of the same show, it creates a bit of a tension in the watching process. But then it's almost like a job in a way - in any case, I'll see if in the next couple of - well, however long it takes me to watch what looks to be over 1600 episodes of one hour TV Shows, I might come here and jot my thoughts.

And I just finished watching Xena: Warrior Princess, episode six of the third season, The Debt.

Yes, that's the Lao Ma episode. It's when the writers decided to create some unholy tension between Xena and Gabrielle by having Gabrielle betray Xena (an episode after Xena attempts to kill the unholy child Gabrielle gave birth to. Long story). It was interesting at first because, yes, friends have fights and friends do horrible things to each other sometimes, but all I remember thinking at the time (and what I felt now while watching) was that there was no way in hell Gabrielle would do this to Xena, no way in hell!! But, you kinda can see it. Specially when you put the hellchild pregnancy into perspective.

And yes, I think Xena is an important part of my TV shows oeuvre, one of the most important one as a matter of fact.  Whatever, I fail to continue to have intelligent thoughts, if I had any today.

Next: Buffy! Season 2, episode 7: Buffy's friend comes to town and it turns out that secretly he wants to betray Buffy in order to become a Vampire and bypass that little pesky terminal disease he's got going on.