I Can Kill You With My Brain

I do enjoy well-done television, but I’m very much enjoying summer and my extended break away from all of the shows I usually watch.  I’ve enjoyed spending my evenings playing “Oblivion” again and the occasional game of Spades online.  It’s been nice to watch a few movies on DVD that I repeatedly put off.  It has really been fun to rediscover “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” on DVD after enjoying the new Star Trek movie a few weeks ago.  It has also been extremely satisfying to turn on my DVR and not see hours and hours of television to watch.  A full DVR list all of the time made watching television feel more like a chore and less like a leisure activity.

Still, there are a few shows that I miss and secretly wish would be on year-round with new episodes.  I can’t wait for “The Big Bang Theory”, “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, and “The Office” to return to the air.  “Dollhouse” also finished quite strongly and I can’t wait to see what happens next with the exciting world that show is (finally) taking place in.  “Fringe” has been a surprisingly good watch and I’m curious to see what J.J. Abrams has up his sleeve.

While I will also continue to watch a few other shows, specifically “How I Met Your Mother”, “Heroes”, and “Bones”, I think that may be where I draw the line next year in respect to what I watch.  While the break from television has managed to show me that I do miss certain shows, it has also reminded me what it’s like to do other things with my evenings.  Several weeks ago I wrote about shows that I was going to stop watching in the fall because I had felt their quality had slipped.  That list mostly holds true, though I may be willing to give “24″ another chance.  There’s something about Kiefer Sutherland’s portrayal of Jack Bauer that keeps me tuning in no matter how good or bad the season may be.  I digress.  That list was initially compiled because I didn’t feel like wasting time watching bad TV, but my drive to stick to the list has been fueled by everything else I’ve been doing with my evenings in the absence of new programming.

If a television executive is reading this blog, they should read between the lines and push for quality new programming during the summer to keep some viewers around.  I really hope that there’s no TV execs reading this blog, because I really don’t need any new shows this summer.  I have kingdoms to save and 8,750 more stars to get in Spades.