I didn't get into "proper" TV watching until I was in my 20s. Up until then I'd had 3rd world TV, or English TV (which I love, but did nothing except add snobbery to my pop culture credentials when starting university). It wasn't until some time after I'd graduated and started working that I got a television (before that TV was a group thing where we'd travel to someone's house for appointment TV, but I realised that there were late night showings of Footloose that I was missing out on that way).
And then...I ended up here, and for a while TV was a hobby. I knew when everything was on and what the ratings were, and I watched one episode of everything each new season on network TV...
And then came TiVo. Different kind of crack. Different kind of addiction. But it's not a hobby anymore, even though I probably pay more attention than the average person not posting here or at TWOP.
I watched almost no TV as a kid and way too much now. I blame the interwebs for giving me people to talk about TV with.
I imagine he could get into some of the tv tie-in toys without getting into the actual shows, if you'd rather go that route.
I almost wish he did want some tie-in stuff. He is so impossible to get toys for, he just doesn't play with them. It makes gifts tricky, especially for Grandparents and other relatives.
You heard that's out on DVD? Or coming out soon, I forget which.
Did it suck? It probably sucked, didn't it? I have to Netflix it. Oh, and get a working DVD player. There's only so much I can watch on my computer. Someone please help me in 'Tech. I can't make the decision on my own.
I watched all of the tv I wanted, whenever I wanted. My teenaged years I memorized TV Guide cover to cover and had the listings grid memorized for every night (even for shows I didn't watch). I was obsessed with the fall preview issue. (I was the same way about movies, actually). I don't know that it did anything for me socially, in school, although everyone always counted on me to give facts about tv and movies.
Javachik is me! My family called me a walking TV Guide...even though we didn't actually get TV guide.
I posted this link in music, but can someone tell me where the top picture in this blog post is from?
No Matter What You Call it, Goth is Goth
even though we didn't actually get TV guide.
Wow, what did you use?? The newspaper? ESTVP?
We never got TVGuide as a kid, but the Washington Post used to include a TV listings magazine-style insert in the Sunday sections. (Maybe it still does - I haven't lived in DC since high school.)
It's from Let The Right One In.
Oh cool! I've been meaning to see that. Is it out on DVD yet?
