Firefly and Six Feet Under

And the winners are...

Yes, I know I didn't even mention it in my reader survey, but I finally got around to watching Firefly and Nathan Fillion just won me over. Fortunately, or unfortunately, Firefly also has the advantage of being an easy commitment review-wise because it was over way too soon.

So I've started writing Firefly reviews. I won't be able to finish them quickly because season finales are approaching, but the summer television wasteland is also approaching. A summer with no Battlestar Galactica because it's not coming back until freaking October. (October?!) Which means that I'll basically have the summer free to catch up with non-current shows.

Another non-current show, Six Feet Under, is also calling me, and I'm going to have to write about it. Haven't started yet, and probably won't until May or June, but reviews are coming.

I'm worried about making a commitment to another current show at this point. I'm not going to stop reviewing Lost. My commitment to Smallville isn't deep, but I do enjoy writing about it; it's a lot of fun. I'm very into Battlestar Galactica, and they just made it harder for me by announcing that new episodes will air in the fall instead of summer. What this means that if I take on another current show that airs in the fall (like, say, Veronica Mars) I'll be doing four at the same time. I did four at the same time once, and it was hard. It was difficult for me to keep up and I experienced some burn-out.

And what if I fall in love with something new this fall? If four makes me burn out, what would five do?

I'm not sure where I'm going with this. It's sort of meander-y.

But hey! Firefly! I think I've gotten more letters asking me to review Firefly than any other show, with the possible exception of Veronica Mars. That's not why I'm doing it, of course, but still.
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Billie Doux loves good television and spends way too much time writing about it.