Grab your gun and bring the cat in

I love TV. I just looooovvveee it. TV is great, TV sometimes makes the world go round. I say this because I am currently consumed with BSG withdrawal. I’m getting the shakes, I’m losing colour… it’s not pretty. Unfortunately BSG isn’t scheduled to come back until January 2009 (at the earliest), so I’m forced to live with the shakes. Don’t ask me to handle your good china, I strongly think that’s a bad idea.

Anyway, I think it’s been well established that I am a giant BSG geek. I am now the proud owner of an “I heart cylons” shirt, and frankly, it’s one of my favorite shirts EVER. I heart cylons, I heart BSG, I heart Helo.

But I think it’s time to throw around the tv love to some other tv shows that I also adore (in lesser measurements than BSG mind you, but love regardless). So dum, dum, dum! I present my list of my favorite tv shows ever:

1) Veronica Mars
2) Battlestar Galactica
3) My So-Called Life
4) Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5) Rome (I miss Pullo)
6) Greek
7) Pushing Daisies (I LOVE Lee Pace)
8) Dexter
9) Wonderfalls (again, I LOVE Lee Pace)
10) Dead like Me

Now, I think it’s telling about the state of television when almost all of my favorite shows have ended, been cancelled prematurely, or are in the process of ending. Of the 10 tv shows on that list, only three are still on the air, and only two of those three are scheduled to continue past 2009 (knock on wood please!). Now you naysayers out there could say: “perhaps your favorite shows keep getting cancelled because they suck.” Or some equally snotty comment. I rebut: “YOU SUCK. Shut your pie hole!”

Um… where was i? Ah yes… I love tv. TV is engaging. I believe that a really good tv show can be just as engaging, exhilarating, and inspiring as reading a book (perhaps sometimes even more – yes I actually said it). So TV has a lot of value to it and doesn’t necessarily earn the title of “boob tube”. It’s the overabundance of reality television that really cheapens the quality and substance of tv. That being said, I enjoy my reality television as much as the next person. Within reason of course, but nonetheless I do enjoy the occasional reality television show.

So what does that say about me? A person who turns her nose down at an overreliance on tv as a pastime, certainly when that pastime consists of way too many hours of reality television, writing an entry about how much she loves tv? And admitting that she watches reality tv too?

Does that make me a hypocrite?

Yes, but in MN tweak-speak… I prefer to think of myself as a woman of the people. A woman of contradictory nature, who likes to keep herself updated as to what is going on with the masses. After all, how can I mock what I don’t know? All this reality tv watching is merely for educational purposes.

Yep, that’s it.

And I still love BSG. I also miss Veronica Mars like craaaazy.