Last night, I finished the last major item on my slate cleaning list. I still have a bunch of little things to take care of as well as prep for Helena's 2011 show, but for the first time in a long time, I'm essentially open to do whatever the hell I want to.
My TV watching habits are as such: I have five more episodes of 'True Blood' to watch which Missus RC and I may marathon tonight. I have 'Walking Dead' to catch up on though the more I hear about it, the more it starts to feel like a chore. (Missus RC fears zombies and won't watch it with me which makes it doubly hard to sit down for. Crap is so much easier to digest when you're sharing the pain.)
One thing on the docket is to rewatch both seasons of Twin Peaks. Missus RC has never seen it and I haven't watched it since Bravo ran the whole series while I was in college. It's due for a re evaluation.
The other culture goal was been to watch all three seasons of Star Trek, The Original Series. I've only seen about half of the episodes. It ran in syndication when I was like fourteen, and I watched it fairly regularly. I wasn't obsessed with the show, but I always seemed to catch it. My memory is that I wanted it to be more like Star Wars and yet I never turned it off.
The Red Letter Media/Plinkett reviews have sort of reawakened my interest in Star Trek. I watched
Star Trek: The Motion Picture a couple weeks ago and was struck by a) how much of it I'd forgotten and b) how much I really enjoyed it. Even more surprising was how much Missus RC liked it.
Anyway, we've both agreed to try to tackle TOS, despite each episode being a stand alone story rather than the continuity based format of modern TV. (I seem to remember a two-parter somewhere in there though, don't I?)
Nacho wants RC to return to the front page and do reviews of each episode a'la this dude:
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Torcom/Frontpage_Partial/~3/q2kC7OV2ur0/star-trek-re-watch-for-the-world-is-hollow-and-i-have-touched-the-skyMy writing time is precious these days. And the prospect of having time to explore different writing projects makes me wary of committing to a project like that. (If I'm going to commit to a culture column, I'd rather work on my long gestating expansion of my Horror 101 pieces. )
I think what I'm going to do is more along the lines of the "suffering Through" threads Nacho has done with TNG, Stargate, etc: Little short blurbs about each episode. We'll see how it goes, and whether or not everybody deems it front page worthy.