Cindy, to answer your question, I watch, but I don't love it. It doesn't seem even half as good as Buffy to me. It is as ok as any other show I watch, but if I missed an episode, I wouldn't get very upset.

I've been trying to think, and I don't watch any scripted TV anymore, except for the occasional "Crossing Jordan"--though that's mostly to see Dr. Macey and the English guy and to hope Jordan gets smacked down. I get too impatient with the plots. I think what made me not get involved with VM was being tired of teenagers/young adults and their angst. Hubby says I should watch "Bones," and he fully acknowledges the appeal I would find in DB.

Appointment TV for me these days is "Dirty Jobs" and "Mythbusters" on Discovery and anything with Alton Brown. Witty geeks do it for me. I'm practically ready to start writing Mike Rowe fic.

I have not watched VM. So many folks here and on lj adore it, but I have not even given it a go. Have not really considered why not, though.

I have the opportunity to apply for a prize to spend a summer at Oxford University. I think this is the program I would get to do: [link] Doesn't it look cool?

I have to be careful not to get too excited about the opportunity, but it just looks so cool!

I may have resented the Buffy comparisons.

I wouldn't say I resented them exactly, but they don't help. I watch every episode, about on time, but apart from individual characterisations, I'm not grabbed. Some of those individuals (Keith, Logan, sometimes Weevil although I think he's erratically written, and Wallace) are very compelling.

Maybe I'm over TV and can't get into it the way Buffy/Angel/Firefly/Wonderfalls got me in anymore. I don't know. Or maybe that next bright show that suckers me in on many levels just hasn't come along yet. But I shake my head a lot, and don't get the VM hype.

I think I'm too busy fiending for The Wire and being David Chase's bitch waiting for more Sopranos to give my heart to any other shows.(I thought we broke up, but I bet Chase could get in my panties again. Coming around with his violence and literate dialogue and source music...that bastard! He doesn't realize I'm my own person now. (/Harmony) But I like VM and Commander and Chief and Everybody Hates Chris. I'm just not in a position for a serious relationship right now. I'm...seperated from several hour-long dramas. It's complicated. And I may have a problem with fictional substances(WMD). You read that right...it's a brand name for really potent heroin in Simonverse Balmer. They had a whole Iraq metaphor last year. It was deep.(I'm not sure I grokked fully, actually.)

I watch it, but drat it, now that Cindy watches it, I know that it is doomed! ;P

It's fun. I'm not fannish about it, exactly, but it's fun. I hesitated, got some burns from a friend, mainlined S1 last June, and decided I'd keep watching.

I have the opportunity to apply for a prize to spend a summer at Oxford University. I think this is the program I would get to do: [link]. Doesn't it look cool?

That looks very cool! I hope you get it, and, if you do, I might just have to visit you.

a summer at Oxford University

Ooooooh, that would be lovely!

Nice... I've never even been to England yet.