Initially, it sounded too much like 4400 -- which I do watch -- so I didn't watch it when it first came on. I did try watching a few episodes later, but I have so much (too much really) TV I'm trying to keep up with. It didn't grab me enough to stick with it.
It took me a while BECAUSE of the comic book format. I don't follow the titles I read from month to month, like most people do. I wait until they gather up a few issues and put them into a TPB then buy that. I have the entire collection of X-Treme X-Men and the new New X-Men: Academy X like that. It takes forever to get through storylines, which is why it's hard for me to get into an ep if none of the characters I like have much screen time. Luckily, I'm a big Claire and Nathan fan, so odds are, usually one or the other features heavily in an ep.
Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
It took me a while BECAUSE of the comic book format. I don't follow the titles I read from month to month, like most people do.
I read monthly comic books every month faithfully for... *stops to do math in her head* ... eighteen years. I dropped my X-Book subscriptions in 2001, but I guess if you count in my subscriptions to Mixxzine and Shojo Beat I've been a reader of monthly formats for 20 years. I love the chapter format, and cliffhanger endings.
Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
I told my dad I couldn't help thinking if Hiro had been face to face with Stan he'd have gone all fanboy on him. I mean Hiro has a Merry Marvel Marching Society card. I love, love, love Hiro. But, I like most of the characters at least some of the time. O:)
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
*Nods.* I'm sure I've given it more than one episode, and it just hasn't appealed to me.
I was seriously addicted to comic books until a decade ago. I'm talking $20-$40 a week, depending on what came out and what caught my fancy in the store.
Then, I moved to California, and didn't have a car, and it was more expensive to live here. I wasn't willing to spend 1½ hours plus each way on the bus to go to the local comic book store. That, and a storyline started in the X-Men books that made me quite wanting to read them... OK, a few story lines. Of course, that meant I spent $10-$30 a week on comics. :) I get all my comic book fixes from web comics. That, and a pharmacist where I work tells me what's happening.
And, my brother hates that I moved, because now he can't bum my comics from me. He has to buy his own now... Hah!
I was seriously addicted to comic books until a decade ago.
*Nods.* My interest in Marvel Comic Books died a slow death that I think started over a decade ago. I mean I bought my first in 83'. They included Red Sonja and the Elfquest books they published under their Epic imprint. I bought my first X-Book, The New Mutants, in 86' and it was X-titles I bought until the end. Sometime in the 90's three things happened that added up to my eventually giving the books up in '01 --
1) The ease with which I could get the books drastically declined. I lost the ability to buy the books off the Newsstand. I had to buy them from an actual comic store or subscribe. The comic book store closed and I had to subscribe. Sometimes issues got lost in the mail.
2) The storylines stopped appealing to me. The last storyline I remember really liking is The Age of Apocalypse.
3) English translated manga started appearing where I could get it. I bought my first issue of Mixxzine at a newsstand. It's also where I bought my first issue of Shonen Jump. What I buy these days is mange from Viz and Tokyo Pop mostly in tankobons, but I've got a subscription to Viz's Shojo Beat I purchased for Yuu Watase's Absolute Boyfriend. American comic books lost me to Japanese ones. :D
I watched the pilot when it first came out, and part of the second ep, but didn't really get into it. Even with most of my f-list falling completely in love with it.
But I watch Prison Break and just started watching The Black Donnellys. That left me with an hour in the middle. So I filled it with Heroes. D'oh!
I do watch Heroes, but the only reason is to see Christoper Eccleston. I couldn't get interested in it when it started and I don't care about it when he's not on. (Though I will admit that Hiro is cute. And the actor who played the villain on Witchblade was on tonight--I love him as a villain. I think the premise is that he's the mastermind behind all the manipulative vilainy going on, but I haven't paid close enough attention to the overall plot to be sure. :p)
Yes, I know it's on my interests list. CHRISTOPER ECCLESTON!
Not even. :-) Aside from a couple of game shows I like, the last show I watched with any regularity was "24" (last year, until they killed Ger off and I lost interest), and "Forever Knight" before that. :-)
Frankly, there's just too *much* out there. I've got nearly a dozen various seasons of various shows waiting on DVD to be watched. So these days, I'm just focussing on a few shows. I have watched up to Episode Eight of "Heroes", but frankly, it hasn't grabbed me such that I feel compelled to download the rest. I suppose part of it does relate back to the fact that I've never been a huge fan of the comic book/superhero genre (absent growing up watching Wonder Woman ;))
I've actually been enjoying SPN more than "Heroes" -- go figure.
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Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
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I read monthly comic books every month faithfully for... *stops to do math in her head* ... eighteen years. I dropped my X-Book subscriptions in 2001, but I guess if you count in my subscriptions to Mixxzine and Shojo Beat I've been a reader of monthly formats for 20 years. I love the chapter format, and cliffhanger endings.
Yep! Saw Stan Lee! That was cool! :D
I told my dad I couldn't help thinking if Hiro had been face to face with Stan he'd have gone all fanboy on him. I mean Hiro has a Merry Marvel Marching Society card. I love, love, love Hiro. But, I like most of the characters at least some of the time. O:)
And, I also tried to get into 24. I kept falling asleep during the first hour. I tried to watch it about five times.
*Nods.* I'm sure I've given it more than one episode, and it just hasn't appealed to me.
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Then, I moved to California, and didn't have a car, and it was more expensive to live here. I wasn't willing to spend 1½ hours plus each way on the bus to go to the local comic book store. That, and a storyline started in the X-Men books that made me quite wanting to read them... OK, a few story lines. Of course, that meant I spent $10-$30 a week on comics. :) I get all my comic book fixes from web comics. That, and a pharmacist where I work tells me what's happening.
And, my brother hates that I moved, because now he can't bum my comics from me. He has to buy his own now... Hah!
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*Nods.* My interest in Marvel Comic Books died a slow death that I think started over a decade ago. I mean I bought my first in 83'. They included Red Sonja and the Elfquest books they published under their Epic imprint. I bought my first X-Book, The New Mutants, in 86' and it was X-titles I bought until the end. Sometime in the 90's three things happened that added up to my eventually giving the books up in '01 --
1) The ease with which I could get the books drastically declined. I lost the ability to buy the books off the Newsstand. I had to buy them from an actual comic store or subscribe. The comic book store closed and I had to subscribe. Sometimes issues got lost in the mail.
2) The storylines stopped appealing to me. The last storyline I remember really liking is The Age of Apocalypse.
3) English translated manga started appearing where I could get it. I bought my first issue of Mixxzine at a newsstand. It's also where I bought my first issue of Shonen Jump. What I buy these days is mange from Viz and Tokyo Pop mostly in tankobons, but I've got a subscription to Viz's Shojo Beat I purchased for Yuu Watase's Absolute Boyfriend. American comic books lost me to Japanese ones. :D
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*Giggles.* Sounds kind of like how I tried 24 when it began, but couldn't get into it. ;)
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But I watch Prison Break and just started watching The Black Donnellys. That left me with an hour in the middle. So I filled it with Heroes. D'oh!
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And, if I did, I doubt I would.
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Yes, I know it's on my interests list. CHRISTOPER ECCLESTON!
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Yes, tonight was his first ep.
Yes, he plays a man with the power of invisibility named "Claude Rains"--who is the person who has had his powers the longest that we know of so far.
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Anyway new CSI and Life on Mars tonight to watch and new NCIS and House too!
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I've actually been enjoying SPN more than "Heroes" -- go figure.
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Supernatural is another series like 24 that I tried some episodes of and couldn't get into. :o
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Someone mentioned Life on Mars - great show!