The Opposite Side of the Coin

[jackwabbit]

Ones I've never seen:

Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Dark Skies
DaVinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dexter
Dharma & Greg
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Even Stevens
Everwood
Felicity
Fringe
Gilmore Girls
Gossip Girl
Grey's Anatomy
Grange Hill
Heroes
Homicide: Life on the Street
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
Kim Possible
La Femme Nikita
LA Law
Law and Order: SVU
Leverage
Lizzie McGuire
Lost
McLeods Daughters
Melrose Place
Mod Squad
Monk
Murphy Brown
My Life As A Dog
Mythbusters
NCIS
Ned Bigby's Declassified School Survival Guide
Nip/Tuck
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Press Gang
Prison Break
Private Practice
Privileged
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Pushing Daisies
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (UK)
ReGenesis
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roswell
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South of Nowhere
Starsky & Hutch
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Amazing Race
The Avengers
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Real World
The Shield
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The West Wing
Third Watch
Twitch City
Unfabulous
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Weeds
Will and Grace
The L Word

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Oh, I know all about the good Doctors. I even know to never, ever say Dr. I know about Tom Baker and Peter Davidson and Daleks and Companions and even David Tennant and Ianto and Jack. I know the big huge deal about Ianto and all that (but I won't repeat it because I hate spoilers so much and someone reading this might not know about it somehow).

I just don't care.

Meaning I don't care about knowing the spoilers and whatnot because I don't watch the show and don't foresee myself ever watching it.

That's not a bash against it, but a simple fact.

I have reached the point in my life where watching TV is like a chore. I love it when there is no new TV because that means I don't have to watch it that night.

I currently watch five hours of TV a week, and I'm hard pressed to watch that much.

I won't watch any more until I cut something else. Just how it is. Now, I spend gobs of time on my computer, so that's not a "I don't want to sit still" thing or whatever. It's just another simple fact. TV just pours out at me and I can't interact with it and that frustrates me. I can't talk to it. I can't create anything while I'm watching it. I get bored within minutes most of the time.

I can't get past the boredom, and then I get mad at the TV because it's keeping me from doing something more fun, like talking to my friends online or writing. But I watch because there are some shows that do still entertain me and because there are some hubby and I watch together, etc.

Now, on the very rare occasions when I have control of the TV, I will sometimes watch it (my hubby went out of town for four days last year and I watched four hours while he was gone - otherwise, I enjoyed the blessed silence - see, I'm not a channel surfer - I watch a program then turn off the box). When I do, I'll watch it for twenty minutes, see a scene that lights my fire, stop it, run to my computer and type a story, then go back to it. That makes TV fun. I've recently discovered that Twitter makes TV fun, too, because I can comment on it as I watch. Or watching with pen and paper to take notes on the cool stuff to watch later or blog about, etc. That has recently rekindled TV fun for me. Just watching doesn't cut it. I have to DO something.

But in my everyday life, I can't do that. I have a husband who cares much more about TV than I do and thus is generally in control of the remote. He watches all sorts of things while I'm doing my computer stuff.

And while we enjoy a few shows together, he has no interest in Doctor Who, either, so there's just no way we'd ever tune in. It would never occur to me to turn on the TV if he wasn't around, and he would never tune in to Doctor Who. He grew up with Doctor Who in that it is his brother who is completely obsessed, but he still doesn't care as an adult. And me? Well, not a one of my family watches sci-fi. I was not exposed to it at all growing up.

In the US, in order to watch Doctor Who when I was young, you had to stay up very late on Saturdays and then maybe if you were lucky you might get it or you might not.

So...I never saw it.

Like I said, I'd probably like it, but rest assured that if I ever come to it, it will be by mere chance and blind luck.

Because I can 100% guarantee you that if I ever come to Scotland, I won't waste a second of my time on television. No matter what it is.