I forgot to list
Babylon 5 among my past obsessions. I share it with my eldest son, who has watched it all the way through three times. We always watch the final episode together, clutching each other's hands and sobbing like babies. Mr. Prim also likes the show but is afraid to watch that episode.
There, full disclosure (everything before age 16 is under seal).
Hobby, yes, I do mean the new
Battlestar Galactica. It's very different from the old one, but if you watch it with that in mind, you might like it. It
is grim, but the writing and acting are very fine. It's much more of a political drama than a spaceships-and-ray-guns story. Edward James Olmos is superb as Adama, as is Mary McDonnell as the President of the Twelve Colonies—a woman who looks and acts her age and kicks serious rear end.
Eru, the new
Dr. Who is running on the Sci-Fi channel. They're quite behind the UK, but Season 2 starts September 29th.
Swiz, I'm with you on not wanting to watch shows that don't have endings (or that end badly—which is why I pretend there were only five seasons of
X-Files). I couldn't watch the last season of
Farscape until I knew they were making a miniseries that would resolve the story. I've given up on
Lost because I'm getting that bad
X-Files feeling—that they don't really know or care where the story is going or even what the explanations may be for what's happened so far.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King