Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lower than expected...

oooh, whats the radical alternative?

wow. much lower than i expected.

not as low as Paulie and Christopher sunk to that frosty night

Aye, thought that was a lock for second behind the Wire.

Curb is STILL the funniest thing on right now, imo. Pretty impressive when you consider that it is into its 7th season.

should i have not stopped after season 4? i'm kinda tempted to go back sometimes, but ehhh, i have this feeling after seeing Wire and Deadwood it's still going to disappoint

talkin' bout sopranos of course

huh. thats an odd low placing right there for the sopranos

man i dont wanna be kevvie downer or anything but rushing this all in 15 minute intervals kills all the fun of discussing the shows gilmore girls as each is revealed

I dig later Sopranos. I liked The Test Dream.

Best season ending was series 3 (although series 6 ending was good - ahhhh...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv-tmqV99U0
(nsfw)

this quote from Chase on the Sopranos final scene

"They had gleefully watched him rob, kill, pillage, lie, and cheat. They had cheered him on. And then, all of a sudden, they wanted to see him punished for all that. They wanted 'justice.' They wanted to see his brains splattered on the wall. I thought that was disgusting, frankly. [...] The pathetic thing—to me—was how much they wanted his blood, after cheering him on for eight years.

still bugs me a lot

Pine Barrons episode was the best episode of anything on this list, bar Buffy's The Body imo. Not that that was enough to make me vote for Tony.

I want to talk about Curb some more!

Yeah, I think Sopranos (relatively) low placing could easily be due to its losing momentum in the last two or three seasons.

(although I have nothing new to say on the subject)

xp

kev: i could go slower but a) i will eventually get sleepy and b) ilx most probably going to be talking about the list tomorrow as well anyway and c) bar possibly a surprise or two, its not like people haven't already kind of possibly figured it out and d) when the wire doesn't place, i want to get out as quickly as possible before being 51d.

i can go to 20 minutes maybe? 8x20=going to bed at about 2ish.

15mx9=2 hours and 15 minutes=i'm sure you'll be fine, d.

Yeah, meanwhile, I'm leaving work in a little over an hour and going out to meet someone for drinks. But whatever.

man i dont wanna be kevvie downer or anything but rushing this all in 15 minute intervals kills all the fun of discussing the shows as each is revealed

Yep.

too late now guys. past the point of no return.

yeah because you won't be able to discuss them tomorrow or at any time in the future

i guess i should have waited till tomorrow but when i revealed 20 earlier there was 47 people on ilx. now there is roughly double that, so you assume more conversation has to be generated, right? even if half of it is people getting annoyed at me.

what about 16.7 minutes? 18.9?

are we really worried about not having enough time on this site to discuss subjects like "the wire" and "mad men"?

people are going to complain no matter what you do, Samuel. Do whatever feels right

people obviously showing how much they wanna talk about the two shows just revealed...

There's just enough time by spacing it out 15-20 minutes for the shocks and shrugs and the fun of guessing. Tomorrow should be allocated as the day where we discuss why our picks were racist/misogynist/homophobic et al

Someday, maybe I will finish watching my Sopranos S1 DVDs.

Yeah, sorry for being brusque. I think I just like the idea of 10 a day, with Friday as the big reveal. But ultimately it's not that big of a deal.

still need one more surprise in here to force mad men out CMON LUCK

8. Lost (25 votes, 4 first place votes, 4960 points.)
http://www.theincomparable.com/lost-logo.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECDqruYbWw

wouldn't it be awesome if PRESS YOUR LUCK somehow charted

waht xpost

since things are winding down, can we post our ballots. or lists or whatever. is that legal. you can see how many shows i voted for that never had a chance.

mad men beating lost = ilx voters like being bored

now if mad men beats the wire..

Lost beating anything = ilx voters will watch any old shite

7.
http://garlinggauge.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/whammy.jpg

i'm gonna watch all of mad men someday. and all of friday night lights too. and all of the wire. and all of deadwood. when i'm old. and in the home.

if mad men beats the wire ilx will prob explode

Lost my #2 but probably should've been my #1 considering its the only show i've seen every episode of before UK broadcast. Nothing else to say that hasn't already been said I guess. Can't fucking wait for the final season (inc more moaning about stupid Kate and Jack no doubt).

I just bought Dudu and Lost sucks.

speaking of shows that lost momentum...I don't remember when I stopped watching Lost but at one point I just had to quit. I have heard that it improved but it seemed to me at that point like the writers were just employing some sort of ponzi plot scheme, resolving crazy plot lines by throwing in even crazier twists.

i watched every single episode of lost and then i missed the finale last year cuz i wasn't home and i still haven't watched it. i think i just start to get bored after three years of ANYTHING these days.

I got three years in then just realised I really didn't care any more.

i was pretty sure that lost was going to be in the number three spot TBH (edged out by arrested development and the wire)

xxxpost see i think that lost has actually been better for the last 2 seasons than any of the early ones

some of the whammys on Press Your Luck were really funny.

I was ready to give up on Lost at some point in the third season, but I'm glad I stuck around, as it did improve drastically.

I fear for the last season, tho, tbh.