So, since heading back to Netflix, I have to admit I really love it. The streaming thing is just all kinds of awesome. I can’t really justify the cost of a Roku Box when I can get Netflix on the Wii and the Playstation 3, so since moving over to Netflix, Hulu has dropped almost completely off my radar.

Though for years I thought that I hated television, I realized I didn’t really hate television shows, per se – just the pile up demands that it made on my time. You have to drop everything when they decide to come on. If you DVR it, you watch the tons and tons of shows that you don’t have time to watch pile up, and up, and up. Disk space piling up and piling up so much so that I felt pressured every time I went in to see what I could watch, so I just never caught up on anything.

Netflix is just there. Waiting. With a veritable smorgasbord of stuff come and gone that I can blow through. I love it.

Here’s my current menu of shows that have been devoured, are on the menu, or made me a bit queasy.

Devoured or Presently Devouring:

Serenity (Completed) – this one was hubby’s recommendation, and we watched it as a family from beginning to end in about two weeks. Now, I suspect that part of my husband’s love of the show has to do with Summer Glau (who played River Tam, above), but that’s ok – she was pretty phenomenal. When I finished the end of the movie, I, too, was stunned that fox nuked this show. What was awesome about Netflix is that we got to see the season as it was intended, and not as Fox broadcast it. Having the Pilot not be shown as the Pilot was seriously stupid on their parts. I find it amusing the next show was nuked in favor of Dollhouse for no other reason than it was a Joss Whedon Project, and yet this one was nuked even though it was a Joss Whedon project. Idiots.

Terminator: The Sara Conner Chronicles (Completed) – this was something hub also wanted to watch, though he hadn’t seen it, and as soon as I saw that Summer Glau was the Terminator, my suspicion with regards to my husband having a thing for Summer Glau was cemented. I can’t blame him much. If I was a guy I think I would have a thing for Summer Glau. In any case, I really liked the show, though it was uneven in parts – but the season finale that wound up being a series finale was just about to launch into 20 million different directions, and it ticked me off. As I said, Fox nuked it in favor of Dollhouse – which I tried to watch, but I hated. I may give it another chance, just to see why it killed this show. The show was worth it to see Shirley Manson as a Terminator, though – dear lord, that woman is scary.

Prison Break (Presently Watching) – I am actually really liking this show, which surprised me. I figured it would be a watered down “Oz” and aside from some toe cutting with shears and nasty injuries, I’m almost to the end of Season 1 and its been heavy on character development and not as harsh on violence as I thought. Despite knowing that there are 5 seasons to watch, I was on pins and needles when they almost fried Lincoln Burrows – and I knew he wasn’t going to get executed because he’s still on the show. Some really good acting, and I love Amaury Nolasco as Sucre.

Queued:

Friday Night Lights – my previous neighbors across the street were permanent extras on this show for a number of years, and since its filmed around here, I’m curious.

Dr. Who – never seen it. Everyone tells me I should  So it’s queued.

Discarded:

Heroes – About the time that they started finding people with their skulls taken off and their brains removed, I left. Thanks, but… um, no.

My past contribution to the family horizons:

Babylon 5 – my kid’s a big Trekkie, and he hadn’t seen Deep Space 9. You can’t stream it, so we got him the DVD’s, and I happened to mention to him that it was a total rip off of Babylon 5 – and, of course, he said “What’s Babylon 5?” Alas, Netflix will stream the entire series from beginning to end, so our family night consists of all of us entering the world of Vorlons, Minbari, and the last, best hope for peace.

You know you’re old when your kid sees Delenn and says “Hey! That’s Rousseau from LOST!” and you say “No, Rousseau was Delenn from Babylon 5.” and then realize you sound just like your parents.

Thankfully, I realized that, and shut up.