Epic TV Show tag

I don't watch tv every day. Most of the shows I watch are either on Netflix or Hulu or the shows I own on DVD. I very rarely watch it on tv when it is actually on. But the shows I really like... I REALLY like. Television gives a show the time to really develop stories and characters and it can become something that is very easy to become attached to.

So, when I saw the epic TV tag I knew I wanted to do it. 

I first saw this tag on Lynsey MacDonald's YouTube channel here. I think it is originally from Jade's Land here.

So, on to the tag!

1) The Best TV Pilot

This one is a no brainer for me. I didn't start watching LOST until it had been out for a few seasons. It was getting so much hype that I was pretty sure that I wouldn't like it. I was so pleasantly surprised at how much I liked it and how it sucked me in. 

The pilot episode was perfect for getting across the theme of the show and getting you pulled right in to the story and the characters. We are looking at Jack's eye and then watch as he wakes up in the middle of the jungle. We watch as he panics and runs out of the jungle to the beach. It pans over a beautiful peaceful beach to the plane wreckage and we are suddenly overtaken with the sounds of the plane, screaming, and all of the chaos. It almost felt like you were experiencing it with him. 

2) Worst TV Pilot

Surprisingly I would have to say the reboot of Doctor Who. As much as I LOVE this show, most of you know that the first time I watched this episode I stopped watching. Then later I returned back to it thankfully and pushed through. The episode is so cheesy and has such horrible quality. But now when I watch it it is nostalgic. I always tell people to start with a better episode and then go back and watch this once they have a love for Rose and the Doctor! Or to make sure they don't give up on it until they have given the show a good chance. 

3) Best Series Finale

 Definitely Downton Abbey. I bought Season 6 as soon as it came out on DVD and I binge watched it in three days. Now I am re-watching it with my mom. They ended this series perfectly. I loved the closure I got with the characters and the growth they all had. 

4) Worst Series Finale

That would probably have to be Lark Rise to Candleford. 

Don't get me wrong. It is not because I didn't like the episode!

  It's because I didn't want it to end. It didn't feel done. 

5) Favorite TV actress

This is such a tricky one. I can't possibly pick just one!!

I could go on and on actually so I picked five and I will stick to them although five minutes from now I am sure I will think of someone that should have been added to this list!

I will go with Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as Loralei and Rory on Gilmore Girls, Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Michelle Dockery and Maggie Smith as Lady Mary and the Dowager Countess on Downton Abbey. 

6) Favorite TV Actor

Again, I could go with SO many but I think I will leave this one at Dan Stevens as Matthew Crawley in Downton Abbey. 

7) Favorite Reality TV star

A few years ago there was a reality show that only aired for one season, Expedition Impossible. 

I loved this show. It was fantastic. I was really excited to watch Eric Weihenmayer compete as I had just read his book, Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than they Eye Can See about his climbing of Mount Everest. 

His team, No Limits, was so inspirational. Not just him, but his teammates too. There was another team, the Gypsies, that I loved as well.

8) Most Disappointing Cancellation

I already mentioned Lark Rise to Candleford, so I will answer this one with Firefly. 

This show was not ready to be over. 

9) Best Theme Song

NO CONTEST.

There are many theme songs I like but none make me feel the way this one does. 

It is perfection. 

10) Favorite Female Character

Okay, I'm just going to put this here again... 

and then add to that.... 

Dorcas Lane from Lark Rise to Candleford, Felicity King from Road to Avonlea, Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Emma Swan from Once Upon A Time. 

Plus 

Rose on Doctor Who

11) Favorite Male Character

Captain Hook from Once Upon A Time, Xander and Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gus Pike from Road to Avonlea, Matthew Crawley from Downton Abbey. 

Plus

The Doctor of course. 

12) Least Favorite Character

Black Jack Randall from Outlander. He is pure evil. 

13) First TV Show Ever Watched

I don't think anyone really knows this unless your parents remember. But I can remember watching a lot of Cosby Show as a kid. 

14) Fastest Binge Watch

Every time. I can't just watch one episode. 

15) Favorite Action Show

Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course. 

16) Favorite Fantasy Show

Once Upon A Time

16.5) I am adding one here. They didn't put a Sci-fi show so I am making that at thing: 

Favorite Sci-Fi Show: 

Doctor Who of course. 

17) Favorite Comedy Show

Gilmore Girls. Not that it was always funny. But it's funny A LOT. 

If we are talking sitcom 30 minute type comedy it would be The Goldbergs.

As a child of the eighties this show is just magic.

18) Favorite Reality Show

The Amazing Race. 

I am sure it is because I love to travel and I would love to see every inch of the world. This is the only reality show I would actually want to go on. 

19) Favorite show of ALL time

This is another impossible to answer with just one. And from my previous answers, I'm pretty sure you can all name them with me: 

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, Once Upon a Time, Road to Avonlea, Doctor Who, and Downton Abbey. 

20) TV Crush

This is another hard one. I pretty much have a TV crush on every show I watch. But these are probably the main six. 

Jamie Fraser from Outlander, Matthew from Downton Abbey, Charles Brandon from The Tudors (Henry Cavill before he was Superman), Sir Gwaine from Merlin, Sawyer from Lost, and Captain Hook from Once Upon a Time. 

It looks like I have a type. Mostly longish hair with facial hair. Hmmm. 

21) Show I regret Watching

Walking Dead. No picture for this. Even though I DESPISE zombies, I thought I would try the show since everyone I knew seemed to love it. People that tend to like the same things as me. Nope. 

Couldn't get through the whole first episode. It is just so GORY. And so gross. And nope. I felt uncomfortable while watching it. So, never again.

22) Favorite Animated Show

Phineas and Ferb. I love this show. I don't get sick of it. I find it genuinely funny. Best animated show ever in my opinion. 

23) Guilty Pleasure Show

The Bachelor/ Bachelorette.

Yep. I am not proud of it. But I watch them. And they entertain me. Why? I don't know. 

24) Most embarrassing watch

Same as above

25) Character whose wardrobe I would most like to steal

Rory Gilmore: 

Emma Swan: 

And let's be real, all the ladies on Downton Abbey

26) Favorite mini-series: 

Absolute no brainer: 

Anne of Green Gables/ Anne of Avonlea. 

In fact if this is considered TV then I would have to go back and add this to most of the other questions: best pilot and finale, favorite tv actress and actor, favorite female and male character, favorite show of all time, tv crush, character whose wardrobe I would like to steal, and OTP. 

But I think of this as more of a movie. So for now, I will just use it for favorite mini- series. 

27) Favorite TV OTP's

If you don't know what an OTP is, it means One True Pairing. So my favorite OTP's would be the couples in television that I knew had to be together. The ones I want to be together and stay together. 

They are: 

Loralei and Luke

Rory and Jess

Buffy and Spike

Matthew and Mary

Emma Swan and Captain Hook

Phew! That was a big tag! I hope you were entertained. 

What are some of your favorite TV shows? 

I tag anyone who wants to do this!

Salt Lake Comic Con: Day Two

Day Two of Comic Con my mom and I went just the two of us. 

We arrived in time to get in line for the panel for Jenna Louise Coleman.

She plays Clara, the current companion on Doctor Who. 

She was so cute and really fun to listen to. 

The panel was great. 

After her panel we had an hour between panels so we went to check out the autograph area to see if anyone was out we wanted to catch a glimpse of. Then we grabbed some pizza for lunch and made our way back to the ballroom. 

On our way I saw Matthew Kirby sitting at a booth signing books. After the people he was talking to, there was no line so I got behind them.I hadn't planned on buying his new book, The Arctic Code, yet since I haven't read the first in the series (that I do own) yet. His book Icefall is one of my favorites though so I figured it's probably going to be good and either way I wanted his autograph!
He was really nice and took a few minutes to talk to us and signed my book.
I then went and bought it and got a free Fablehaven poster with my purchase since Brandon Mull was there as well promoting his new book.

We went back into the ballroom to eat our food so we could get good seats while waiting for the next panel.

We were really excited for this one! It was Sean Astin. And it was packed by the time it started!

They started showing scenes on the big screen of his movies and everyone was going wild. 

Then, instead of coming out from backstage, he rode in on a golf cart through the crowd. 

It was very cool. 

He was so cool. 

He talked a lot about his most popular movies and answered people's questions. 

He also told us about his two charities, a running one for children and a reading one for children. 

After the hour was up my mom and I both agreed that we could have stayed there listening to him for hours. It flew by so fast. 

I have since read SO many comments and blog posts from people that attended Comic Con saying that his panel was their favorite so we definitely weren't the only ones that felt this way. 

If he comes again next year I hope we can go again because I would like to meet him next time I think. 

After Sean Astin's panel we stayed put for the next one. 

It was Sebastian Stan (Bucky on Captain America and the Mad Hatter on Once Upon A Time). 

He was really fun too. 

I had no idea that he grew up in Romania. Someone asked him what his favorite comic books were growing up and he said that he didn't have those because he lived in a communist country and they just had really bad cheese. I thought he joking until he brought up Romania. 

One of the people asking questions spoke to him in Romanian and it was really cool to hear them talking back and forth even though we had no idea what they were saying. 

After his panel we ran to another part of the building that we had never been to before for a panel with Dean O' Gorman (Fili in The Hobbit movies). 

That was really cool. His really strong New Zealand accent was a little hard to understand sometimes but he was really cool and told a lot of funny stories from filming the movies. 

After his panel we were done with the panels we were going to do today. 

We decided to go down and check out the autograph area again. 

I stopped to take this photo from the upstairs before we went back down to show a small percentage of the crowds. There were SO many people there. 

One of the people I was hoping to catch a glimpse of was John Barrowman (Captain Jack on Doctor Who). As we were walking through the vendor area I looked up and he was right next to me!!

He was walking around looking at the art. 

I was too freaked out to stop him to talk, but I did sneak a photo and smile and say hi. 

The main person we were really hoping to catch a glimpse of was Chris Evans. Captain America. 

His photo ops and autographs were super expensive since he is such a large star and this was his first time ever doing autographs at a convention and so we debated getting one. But then he sold out so fast anyway that we wouldn't have been able to buy one even if we had decided to. 

We couldn't go to his panel because it was in so much demand that it was by lottery. 

So, our only chance to "see him" was to catch him out signing autographs. 

We lucked out. He was there!

We snuck a photo. It was so cool to see him not too far away. 

 

At this point we felt satisfied and decided to head home. 

I stopped to get some statue pictures. 

 

And this one of my mom with Hans. 

I don't know how we went two days without a picture of the two of us but we did. I didn't realize it until putting together these posts!

 

We had so much fun! 

I don't think we will be able to go to the next Fan X because it will be only a couple of weeks before our trip but hopefully future Fan X and Comic Con's can be something we do regularly. We have so much fun at these conventions!