What are you NOT watching? -and why!

[trekkiedane]

While the lounge-game of "what are you watching" seems to have found a fan-base right here in Misc. I am actually -well, sometimes- more interested in what you aren't watching -or more to the point: why not?

I'm thinking it is a Misc.-thing as it involves things such as people involved in the things you do not watch, technologies involved in them, imagery, SFX, and -by far not the least- feelings involved in the things you don't watch (and I have recently experienced that you better restrict debate about your feelings to Misc.).

But, erh, the annoyingly flashy ad on here trying to make me watch something I might have watched otherwise, is effectively keeping me from watching even the pilot to: Mr. Sunshine!

Not that I, after reading about it, thought it would be terribly interesting in the first place, but now I'm positive I won't ever watch any of it!

What are you not watching?

(Doesn't have to be something that's on-air right now, could be anything: Bodies, French films, strip tease, football, commercials, re-imaged Trek, your PM in-box...)

 

[Yeoman Randi]

Glee. I'm not watching Glee. I tried, but couldn't do it. When they had a scene early on in the first season with the football team SINGING on the field...well...that just pushed me over the edge!

 

[TheSeeker]

I hate musicals so not watching Glee is a given for me. I watched the Pilot just becasue it was getting so much critical praise but I had a really hard time making it through the whole thing.

 

[Canadave]

The Big Bang Theory. I know everybody loves it, but I hate laugh tracks, and it's attempts to be geeky come off with as much subtly as a brick to the face. To me, it doesn't seem like it's written by geeks, but more like it's by mainstream sitcom writers trying too hard to do nerd humour.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

^ Does BBT use a laugh track? I didn't know that. I'd like to look that up to be sure. I'm terribly disappointed if it is a laugh track. But i do love that show. SO very much!

 

[trekkiedane]

Wow, things happened faster than I'd expected...

Amongst the things I don't watch are Bodies -I find it to be in very poor taste; sure, it's educational -but not more so than the ol' family medical encyclopaedia (I'm old enough to have had a one-volume thing of that sort in the home where I grew up).
I don't watch award-ceremonies -I find them utterly tasteless as most of them are people giving awards to people like themselves (the "Oscars" is a perfect example of this).
I don't watch an ambulance passing me in the street (well, I do, but only to let it pass!)
I don't watch people making fools of themselves in order to make me watch them -be it in the street or on TV!

 

[Canadave]

^ Does BBT use a laugh track? I didn't know that. I'd like to look that up to be sure. I'm terribly disappointed if it is a laugh track. But i do love that show. SO very much!

It may be real, now that I've looked it up. Regardless, I find it leads to really silly pauses, and doesn't let the dialogue flow very well or have much snap to it. It's why I tend to prefer single-camera sitcoms, or shows where they play up the idea of there being an audience, like The Red Green Show.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Any vampire themed show. I just don't have any interest at all. They can suck it! Haha, see what I did there?

Oh and I'm with you there, Canadave. Everyone tells me to watch it, including my Brother and his fiancé, but I just don't find it very funny. I agree that it seems to try too hard. Maybe it's the qualities of the sitcom in general too. It's why I feel Corner Gas was so successful. No laugh track to make you feel you had to laugh and make you feel stupid when you don't.

 

[Starbreaker]

The Simpsons
American Dad
Bob's Burgers
The Apprentice
Dancing With the Stars
Skating With the Stars
The Bachelor
90210
Gossip Girl
Lie To Me
The Chicago Code
The Cape
No Ordinary Family
V
One Tree Hill
Raising Hope
The Biggest Loser
Parenthood
Survivor
American Idol
Live To Dance
Better With You
Cougar Town
Human Target
Hell's Kitchen
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
Private Practice
Off the Map
Detroit 1-8-7
Community
30 Rock
Perfect Couples
Outsourced
Parks and Recreation
Supernanny
Smallville
The Defenders
Who Do You Think You Are?
Jersey Shore
Teen Mom
16 and Pregnant
Spongebob
.... I could go on forever

 

[Ghost07]

I hate American Idol, Survivor, Dancing With the Stars and any other reality show...I can't stand Glee or Big Bang Theory, and I DEFinately won't watch a movie that's mainly a love story.

 

[Holdfast]

I don't really tend to actively watch much these days. You could say that I prefer to randomly graze on media, rather than consume whole meals. Or you could say that I lack an attention span.

But what I definitely avoid are anything preachy/cause-y: environmentally-themed movies, working-class-with-a-heart-of gold dramas, one-woman's-brave-fight-against-the-disease-of-the-week, my-kids-were-unfairly-taken-away-from-me... that sort of thing.

Anything that a TV/movie executive can say "... and more than that, I think we're doing something really worthwhile", and they actually mean it.

But almost anything else, I'll give it a few minutes of my time, to see if it grabs me.

 

[Witterquick]

Being Human (Syfy) - I had wanted to watch it since it's scifi/fantasy and I don't have much to watch these days but I don't enjoy the tone of the series. It's too unremarkable and boring and the characters aren't very interesting. I don't think I care about them at all.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

With the possible exception of NCIS, I don't think I ever watch the super-'popular' shows.

I do not watch American Idol or Dancing with the Stars (or any other reality show), I do not watch Glee, and I never watched much, in terms of the CSI shows. I also do not watch professional sports, except for hockey (didn't even watch the Super Bowl)...and I do not watch CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, or any other news network - mostly because I believe our 24/7/365 news media is largely responsible for the political polarization of this country.

 

[MetalPants]

I don't watch television. At all. At least not anymore.

It all got boring and repetitive.

 

[bluedana]

I don't watch Glee; I find recreating iconic videos and lipsynching to them to be boring and uncreative.

I don't watch crime procedurals because they never, ever get the law or the procedure right, and it makes me want to murder myself.

 

[Kestra]

I don't watch Glee; I find recreating iconic videos and lipsynching to them to be boring and uncreative.

I don't watch crime procedurals because they never, ever get the law or the procedure right, and it makes me want to murder myself.

I watch both of these things with delight.

However, I am not watching my online biopsych lectures because my computer is not cooperating!

 

[RJDiogenes]

What am I not watching? Almost everything. Why? Because I'm a hard sell. Most everything looks either boring or ridiculously moronic.

The only thing I can think of to mention specifically is Merlin. I had intended to check it out, but I was very sick for a few weeks and missed the first two or three episodes; and Sciffy never put it up on On Demand, so I was never able to catch up.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

A few things that didn't interest me which I can think of -
Modern Family (tried to watch it a few times. Didn't find it funny at all)
The Cape (kinder forgot about & heard bad reviews. not wasting my time)

and virtually cop, lawyer and doctors shows, plus reality shows. So virtually 90% of TV is crap as far as I am concerned.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I only look at about 2 or 3 hours of TV a week (and most of that is British TV) , so I am NOT watching nearly all shows. I do watch a few shows on DVD (Bones, Supernatural, Primeval) but most of the time I just watch older shows on DVD. I really think the standard of TV has become very low in the last few years.

i did give Being Human a go but vampires bore me to death - at least they have since Angel and Buffy ended - and I didn't find the werewolf or the ghost in Being Human that interesting either.

The worst of the worse is reality TV.

I have always disliked doctor/hospital shows.

I do love wildlife documentaries (especially those produced by the BBC) but I hate watching Steve Irwin or Jeff Corwin or the like.

 

[TheSeeker]

But what I definitely avoid are anything preachy/cause-y: environmentally-themed movies, working-class-with-a-heart-of gold dramas, one-woman's-brave-fight-against-the-disease-of-the-week, my-kids-were-unfairly-taken-away-from-me... that sort of thing.

Right there with you.