Hee. I am certainly leaning more toward an S1 mainline in the near future. Except I've been planning an Office mainline as well, and I don't know which to do first. I mean, at least I'm already watching SPN. I should probably catch up with that first before adding a new show.

Go, The Office. Choose The Office. They're only half hour episodes, which are not much more than 20 minutes, sans commercials. The first season was only six episodes long. You'll be done before you know it.

The first season was only six episodes long. You'll be done before you know it.

But aha, on principle, I choose to watch the UK version first! So that adds more to the whole endeavor.

It only adds 15 episodes. That's ~ 1/3 of a season of SPN. That said, I'd recommend watching the UK version second.

I don't understand the need to watch the UK version, personally. the first season of it and the US version is for all intents and purposes exactly the same. except, unbelievably, that Michael is more likeable than David.

i've tried to watch the UK version and it just doesn't do it for me. Gareth and David are too cringe-worthy for me. whereas Dwight and Michael are cringe-worthy, but also funny a lot of the time. especially Dwight. Gareth just gave me the creeps.

You and I are agreed about some of the differences in the US vs. UK Offices, but disagree about what it means. I think the UK version is a far nastier show because David Brent is perhaps a nicer (I know!), but more misguided person than Michael Scott. The US version make Scott fairly malevolant and unconcerned with his actions, which, in turn, makes it easier to see him as a monster. David Brent is as much a monster, but also more recognizably human and more consumed by his need to please, with all the cringeworthy humor associated with that.

I also think the arc of the UK version is also more satisfying as a whole, and the two shows diverge enormously after the 2nd US episode. None of this is to say that I think the US version is unworthy of attention; it just has a lower pain-to-pleasure ratio than the UK version, and I found the pain to be as instructive as the pleasures were cathartic in the original. UK: A+. US: A-.

I didn't get an EW vibe.

I got a total Bradley Cooper vibe.

Okay. Maybe that's where I got the "I've seen him before" thing. He was the unholy psychic lovechild of Frodo and Will Tippin.

last night's episode changed my moderate "like" for Supernatural into full blown LOVE. that REO Speedwagon scene totally had me dying.

You guys are so mean, going on and on about the parts of the episode where I couldn't hear anything. Argh. I really am going to have to "locate" a sound-intact copy of the episode, aren't I?

Corwood is me on all points Office.

You guys are so mean, going on and on about the parts of the episode where I couldn't hear anything. Argh. I really am going to have to "locate" a sound-intact copy of the episode, aren't I?

you're welcome.

Okay. Maybe that's where I got the "I've seen him before" thing. He was the unholy psychic lovechild of Frodo and Will Tippin.

I wonder how long it would take me to find that in fic form...

SPN frustrates me, because I have Deep Thoughts on it that REFUSE to get past the Firewall of Flail.

Like, I keep trying to articulate the use of misdirection and creepification with the blonde and the bathrobe and Andy, and how I think we *were* supposed to initially be skeeved and creeped by it, and then to doubt that Andy was using his mind tricks for the seduction aspect of it, but then I get caught up in Dean's complete dorktastic love of the bong, and I just fall straight back into shallow.

no BSG watch and post tonight? huh.

they better be glad they didn't airlock Gaeta. Kara is nice and angsty, isn't she? i really liked the scene between she and Anders with her telling him to leave her alone before she did something she regretted.