I started watching Carnivale with her last night. She really likes it so far.

Why do you have to watch Dexter because she likes it? Fuck that. My fiancee likes Korean soap operas, but I'm not forced to watch them with her. She knows and respects that I fucking hate them.

Force her to watch shows that you like

If the shows you like don't suck, no force is necessary.

Unless they have bad taste. In which case, force them to adapt.

Nah. Don't force anything. Just try to make them adapt to better TV.

Forcing is fun.

See? Fun

Because I like spending time with her, and we both work a lot, so there is little time for tv watching of any kind. I'm not going to keep her from enjoying something she loves just because I think it's poorly written. No, I'm going to watch it with her, make fun of it every once in a while, and enjoy the fact that I'm doing something with someone I care about.

So, fart on you.

I can imagine OANST hooking his girlfriend up to one of those and forcing her to watch all the seasons of The Wire and Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.

Maybe in his fantasies.

Oh, she'll be watching both The Wire, and Space Ghost. I made her watch MST3K with me yesterday.

What I've discovered is that she actually does like good things. She has really enjoyed, and been engaged by everything I've shown her so far. She just hasn't found these things on her own.

Edit: Oh, and she loves Home Movies. We watched an entire season of it in one sitting a few days ago.

Well that's good. I'm kind of surprised she likes The Wire, I had a pretty hard time getting into that one. Still haven't started season 2.

I haven't shown her The Wire yet. Read better.

My bad.

I wish I had someone to sit and watch an entire season of Home Movies with. That sounds great. Hell, I wish I had an entire season of Home Movies.

Buy season 4. It comes with a cd that has all of the show's music on it.

Will do.

In other news, I borrowed season 3 of The Office from my cousin and have been watching that. Goddamn I love this series, at least for the first few seasons. So many hilariously awkward moments, and downright hysterical antics of the characters. The bird funeral was too much.

How much did it cost?

I showed my ex the first few episodes of Firefly and it was almost like that. I'd say that he has terrible taste, but what would that say about me?

Yeah, well, it's not like Firefly was a great show. It was okay.

*bans*

I couldn't even watch the entire pilot for Firefly. I just had no interest in what was going on. I've seen bits and bieces of other episodes, it just doesn't seem very interesting.

But that's coming from someone who isn't a fan of Sci-fi TV in general.

What? It's my cousins. I have no idea.

I've seen two or three episodes.

I’m borrowing Firefly from a friend right now. So far I’ve only watched the pilot, and while it’s okay I hope the other episodes aren’t so slow going.

Home Movies is on Netflix in it's entirety. Netflix has been pretty cool about putting on full seasons of shows I love, including bygone ones like Aaaahh!! Real Monsters!

I dunno. Love is blind. Unless you planned on having a Firefly-themed wedding, I wouldn't be too concerned.

I thought the movie was pretty good.

Firefly, like Homestuck, is one of those things that everyone loves that I just don't get. It's okay, I liked it well enough, but eh.

I wish I had American Netflix. Canadian Netflix sucks ass, doesn't have Home Movies, The Office, South Park, King of the Hill or any of the good shit.

We at least get Nicktoons. So that's something.

So, you don't like Dexter but you watch MST3K? And you dare criticize Dexter of bad writing?
I love the original, and usually I wouldn't dare watch an American remake of a British sitcom because they are ALWAYS terrible. It's just that I heard Ricky kept an eye on things over at the American Office, so is it any good?

I don't know. Personally I think Ricky Gervais is highly overrated, and can be quite the nuisance. All I know is that Greg Daniels is a great showrunner, so when he was at the helm of The Office it was fantastic.

I just finished watching Superjail, it's quite refreshingly surreal.