Coming Home

[Adm_Hawthorne]

I watched Star Trek Voyager from 2:30ish yesterday afternoon to about 9:00PM last night. I have fallen in love with it all over again. I don't know why I ever stopped watching it.

It really seems strange to me that watching a show could feel like coming home. But, in a way, that's exactly what it felt like.

I was thinking about it this morning, and I realized that it felt a lot like meeting up with an old friend, and I was very surprised at how emotionally invested I had become with all of those characters.

I know the plots forwards and backwards. I can quote a great many of the scripts from memory, yet everything seemed as fresh as the first time I watched it.

I'm willing to bet a lot of us feel this way about our favorite Trek. But, are there any other shows, books, plays, musicals, etc that, when you watch them or read them again, it feels like this?

 

[Colonel Green]

If you said this about Enterprise I'd suspect you were the product of an abusive home

 

[Zulu Romeo]

"Local Hero." Somewhat literally.

 

[Adm_Hawthorne]

If you said this about Enterprise I'd suspect you were the product of an abusive home

Nah, just a product of an overly protective matriarch.

 

[Captain Ice]

Emergency!, Adam-12, and Charmed all come to mind...

 

[Holdfast]

But, are there any other shows, books, plays, musicals, etc that, when you watch them or read them again, it feels like this?

TV - TNG, Friends, Red Dwarf
Books - Sherlock Holmes, most Asimov novels, some of Raymond E. Feist's earlier stuff. Asterix too, maybe. Oh, and some Transformers stuff.
Movies - Back to the Future, Road Trip, Weekend at Bernie's, Secret of My Success, Star Wars, Ferris Bueller

 

[Colonel Green]

^ TNG and Red Dwarf for me as well, also Highlander: The Series.

 

[SPOCKED]

Kung Fu
nuBSG
The Civil War (PBS)
Any David Attenborough's series
The Equalizer

 

[kimc]

Anytime I come across an old "I Love Lucy" episode - especially the classics like Lucy and Ethel at the chocolate assembly line.

 

[Captain Ice]

^Sounds like you'd love the Bewitched episode where Serena and Uncle Arthur are making chocolate covered bananas.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Actually the opposite is happening to me as far as Star trek is concerned. I think I was Trekked out years ago and none of the Treks would be among my 20 favourite shows.

Shows that I feel like I am coming home to are

Blake's 7
Babylon 5
Highlander
Early seasons of "The Bill"
Early seasons of "Midsomer Murders"
Any David Attenborough series
Red Dwarf

Movies

Little Big Man
Lord of the Rings
War of the Worlds (1953)
The African Queen
most Jimmy Stewart movie

Books

Alive (about the Andes Survivors)
War of the Worlds - HG Wells
Any book written by Douglas Adams
Earth Abides - George R Stewart
The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham
Venus on the Half-Shell- Philip Jose Farmer

 

[tomalak301]

For TV, I've been watching DS9 a lot and it does feel like coming home. I've always said here how much I love 90's Star Trek and I'm just really happy I get to enjoy it over and over again.

For pretty much anything, if I get a small dose of the 90's, I'm happy. Whether it's movies, TV, music, anything. It was such a great decade and one I miss a lot.

 

[Amaris]

For me, coming home is TOS, TNG and DS9, and while TOS and DS9 are my top two favorites, TNG makes me feel the most comfortable. It aired when I was at my most Trekkiest, and even though sometimes things were very bad in every day life, I had safety and comfort in that world.

 

[auntiehill]

For me, it's Magnum, PI and M*A*S*H. I can quote them verbatim, and yet, when I stumble across an episode, I can still find new things in them. TNG is also in there, as well.

For books, it's probably certain Shakespeare plays (Hamlet, Much Ado) and Sherlock Holmes.

Movies: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Cinema Paradiso and the 1960 Time Machine (w/ Rod Taylor). They are my cinematic version of a warm blankey on a cold night.

 

[Mary Ann]

I feel the same way about Voyager; it's my favourite Trek. Watching Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes gives me the same feeling. I used to watch it all the time on A&E with my late mother.

Book-wise, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco has been a favourite for over 20 years. I read it at least once a year and am on my 3rd paperback copy. The Brother Cadfael series by Ellis Peters is also a firm favourite.

 

[Joeman]

Freaks and Geeks. I grew up in that time frame, and can really relate to many of those characters. A top ten all time favorite of mine.

The only problem is that I get a really frustrated every time I watch it and get to the end so quickly. There was still so much to be done with those characters when it was cancelled after only one season. What could have been...

I get that feeling you get though whichever Trek I'm watching. That's why I felt I needed to rate everything to find out the real best one, since my favorite always seemed to be whichever one I was currently watching.

 

[GeorgeKirk]

Star Trek:TOS for me. That and Superman:The Movie. Those are two of the things that I literally cannot remember the first time I saw them, because I was so young. Also, The Muppet Show.

 

[teya]

Recently they finally put the 80s series thirtysomething on DVD, so I've been watching that. I'm the same age as the characters in the show and was going through a divorce when it first aired. I just remembered that a lot of the show rang very true to me back then.


Now, I never taped any episodes. So at most I might have watched these twice. I was amazed when rewatching it 20 years later, that I could quote entire scenes. I guess that shows how dead-on the writing was. The funny thing is that aside from the antiquated technology and the funny clothes and hair, the show itself is still timely.

 

[KimMH]

I watched Star Trek Voyager from 2:30ish yesterday afternoon to about 9:00PM last night. I have fallen in love with it all over again. I don't know why I ever stopped watching it.

It really seems strange to me that watching a show could feel like coming home. But, in a way, that's exactly what it felt like.

I was thinking about it this morning, and I realized that it felt a lot like meeting up with an old friend, and I was very surprised at how emotionally invested I had become with all of those characters.

I've been reading *Kes7's* fabulous fanfic Tesseract. It's an au fic about a return to the DQ and Kathryn Janeway is now Admiral Janeway. I had forgotten about Pocket's/S&S's take on it because I've been distracted by RL. All of a sudden the story turns to Janeway. It made me tear up because it was as if I was suddenly face to face with someone I thought was dead. Scary - I know exactly of what you speak.

Highly recommend it for any ST fan - *Kes7* is a very very talented writer!!!!

 

[Lookingglassman]

All in the Family and The Jeffersons