Favorite tv shows

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I tried watching Cowboy Bebop last year and quit after about five episodes. Nothing really wrong with it, but it just left me completely cold.

I've finished Dollhouse by now. I enjoyed it quite a lot, but there's this nagging feeling that the whole is actually less than the sum of its parts. Many episodes were genuinely thought-provoking, but the overarching storyline is a confused mess.

And then there's a certain character...

Alpha. He really didn't matter all that much in the grand scheme of things, didn't he? I chuckled at how they included him in the final episode and implied that he went through a whole lot of stuff in the ten years we didn't get to see. I can just imagine the scriptwriters panicking and writing him in at the last minute to pretend that his storyline didn't amount to nothing.

I've also bought a box set of Avatar: The Last Airbender. I've always felt vaguely guilty about watching the series on the internet. I usually don't do piracy, unless there's no other way. (Like Gargoyles, which I watched last summer, which has only a region 1 DVD release... of the first half of the series.) The rest of the family is a bit weirded out at me buying a whole box of cartoons for myself, but here's the good part: I managed to convince everyone to watch along with me.

Finally there's My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, that other kids' show that I watch religiously. I'm really looking forward to the forthcoming episode, in which Rainbow Dash discovers the joys of reading... but even more to the episode after that - a Valentine's Day episode! I wondered how that was going to work, since the main characters wouldn't get into romantic entanglements. The solution? Pair up two minor characters! Some preview screenshots have been released, but the last one makes me wonder: Big Macintosh and Cheerilee on a huge mattress in a hole in the ground? Cheerliee wearing a wedding veil? It's as if they're trying to encourage dirty thoughts...