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.

Oh, and Ellie is very beautiful (which we all knew), and her parents clean up pretty nicely, too!

Hec and I kind of watched VM last year, and liked it well enough but weren't totally grabbed; we finally let it drop off the TiVo the same exact week of the episode that apparently changed everything, cranked it all up a good five or six notches, and made it crucial viewing. And ever since then, we've been telling each other that we really need to get S1 on DVD and catch up and start watching again, but it hasn't happened yet.

I finally said to hell with it and started watching bits and pieces of S2 without catching up; it hasn't grabbed me hard yet, but I'm liking it. And I can wait for the grabbage, which is never fast with me -- even with My So-Called Life, my show-obsession gold standard, I saw the first episode on Sassy's recommendation, went "meh," and didn't bother again until something like Life of Brian (the World Happiness Dance episode, not the Python thing, which AFAIK has nothing to do with MSCL). With Buffy, I saw Dopplegangland and then didn't look at it again for at least another year. VM isn't catching me hard just yet, but that's okay. There's time yet.

Except for the whole Cindy watching=DOOOOOMED thing, but I'll chance it.