<p>I watch it every chance I get! I DVR it if I know I’m going to miss an episode.</p>
<p>Son started watching House reruns over the summer and now both of us love it. The character of House is a natural love for Aspie son, who wants to be a psychologist because he is fascinated by disorders.</p>
<p>Hill St. Blues, Thirtysomething, St. Elsewhere, NYPD Blue, ER-all these shows held my interest for a long time. And, I am not a TV watcher. But those 10 o’clock shows were my weekly TV fix. My DS#1 (grad student) called and wanted to know if I was watching Raising the Bar. (I used to be an assistant D.A. in NYC.) I tried watching last week and fell asleep before it was over. I was very distracted looking at the lead Legal Aid attorney with long hair, Mark-Paul Gosselaar. I kept thinking of him as Det. John Kelly’s partner with short hair on NYPD Blue. Very disconcerting.</p>
<p>I forgot Brothers and Sisters. We watch it every week.</p>
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<p>That made me smile. He’ll always be Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell to me!</p>
<p>alwaysamom, you must be a decade or two younger than I am. ;)</p>
<p>ER-lifer here. For the most part, if I become invested in a program, I’m there to the bitter end, ala x-files. For me – even with some of its bumpier seasons – I still prefer dramas to the reality junket that steeps our airwaves … so I hang on to them for dear life. When Abby put her nameplate on the wall of nameplates, I searched the wall fondly looking for favorites of mine. </p>
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<p>Also been there since the beginning - but I agree it’s time to wrap it up. Seems like the writers lost their edge during the past few seasons. I guess it’s hard to keep a show going so long. </p>
<p>I do like the new “Head” - she’s a great character!</p>
<p>I would like to see a synopsis of what has happened to each character…shot, stabbed, held hostage at gunpoint, brain tumor, killed another in self defense, endured death of spouse/SO/partner, etc. I’d also like to see a chart of who has slept with whom over the course of the show…sure you could link up most of the cast in far less than six degrees of separation.</p>
<p>I gave it up after Mark died, too. They did so much to that poor guy (though not as bad as the Mark-like character on St. Elsewhere–might as well have just called that guy, the one played by David Morse, Job.)</p>
<p>I remember the one where the pregnant woman died. My kids were little, and my H was a resident at the time–it almost made him sick to watch it–he said that’s really how it feels in the ER, and having to deal with that in real life was enough for him.</p>
<p>I’m probably the only person who didn’t like Abby–I always found her so gosh-darned self-righteous. I got over David Ross, because I actually thought the Luka actor was better looking (I think Clooney has improved with age, though.)</p>
<p>I did watch sporadically enough in later years that I also tear up at “Good Riddance” because of its use on this show.</p>
<p>Son and I were watching House reruns over the weekend, and there is a series of about 6 shows where David Morse plays a Javert-like cop who has it in for House. Once I figured out who the 20 year older David Morse was, it was disturbing to see him play such a bad guy.</p>
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<p>momof3, probably the reverse!(I think I’m one of the ‘oldies’ on CC) Having 5 girls in our house, Saved by the Bell seemed to be on our tv for many years. :)</p>
<p>missy, I’ve known David Morse since his early days in theatre. He was my favorite character when he then went on to do St. Elsewhere and his first film is still one that I love to watch, Inside Moves. I was sorry when his series “Hack” didn’t last. I loved watching this old friend in a show that was filmed in my (and his wife’s!) hometown.</p>
<p>aha, alwaysamom! We are probably of very similar vintage, 
but having three boys in my house, I don’t recall Saved By the Bell on the tube here. (I am quite sure that I am one of the “oldies” on this site.)</p>
<p>We watched last weeks episode last night and have last night’s tivo’d. We picked it up about season 4 and watched through season 8 and then picked it up again a couple of years ago. It’s predictable but entertaining. The Pratt thing totally shocked us! We knew someone was going to die but really didn’t think it would be him…</p>
<p>I thought that since Abby was leaving, she’d be the one to die in Episode 1. (But I didn’t watch Abby’s departure because I don’t like her. She and Luca never had any “spark” which is surprising since Luca was always so hot.)</p>
<p>Pratt died? Wow. What happened? He was one of the newer characters whom I really liked. And what happened to Luka? I liked his character too. (Sorry, but some of them almost seemed like real people to me. I still miss Mark Greene, too. The one character I never liked much was John – Noah Wiley was the actor’s name, I think. I guess he was the last “original” character to leave the show.)</p>
<p>Thirtysomething was my favorite show when it was on, and I was thirtysomething myself. It makes me intensely nostalgic to think about it – my ex and I used to watch it when my son was a baby, with him sitting there in his little swing, which we would turn on in the hope that he would stay quiet for that hour! And I still sometimes wonder what would have happened to all the characters – would Michael and Hope still be married? Would Melanie (I think that was her name) still be single? Etc, etc.</p>
<p>I realized recently that there isn’t one single prime-time series, drama or sitcom, that I still watch with any regularity. (Not counting reality shows like Project Runway and Top Chef.) Once upon a time, I made sure to tape ER, and NYPD Blue, and Seinfeld, every single week. If you go back to the early 1980’s, I was a devotee of shows like Knot’s Landing and Dallas! Now, other than an occasional Law and Order or Law and Order SVU – nothing.</p>
<p>I thought Michael Steadman was about the cutest guy I’d ever seen…</p>
<p>We watch (or tivo) a bunch. NCIS, Numb3rs, ER, The Mentalist, Eleventh Hour, etc…</p>
<p>Picked up ER again this year mostly b/c Noah Wiley is supposed to return.He’s my fave (sorry, DonnaL) after George Clooney. So many great characters over the years on that show.So far I’m disappointed in Angela Bassett’s character,maybe it will grow on me.
surprised and loving the Mentalist…that guy is HOT!!!
Disappointed as well in Life on Mars,thought with that cast it would be great.
True Blood on HBO has been compelling in a weird way.
D got me TIVO last spring for a combined Birthday,Mothers Day gift.Its been a great toy to have and I have no trouble using it…when I’m hopeless with all electronics.</p>
<p>Thirtysomething–how nostalgic. I was actually still twentysomething when I started watching it, but I had small kids and identified with lots of it (except I had less money–we were living in a shabby appt over a pizzeria; their homes looked like palaces to me.)</p>
<p>My deepest memory is the night after the one mom finds out she has ovarian cancer, walking home with a friend after dropping our kids off at school, and both almost simultaneously exclaiming over how deeply upsetting that was, and especially how the character was saying how she wasn’t “done” with her kids yet, and wondering how her husband would bring them up without her.</p>
<p>We both felt the same way as the character–whose name for the life of me I can’t remember (and my H would’ve agreed at the time.) It really brought home how fragile life is.</p>
<p>(I gave up series shows a bunch of years ago; just stopped wanting to get sucked into an obligation. But now my S is into House, and starting to drag me into it too.)</p>
<p>Edit: Missypie–Oh, good, I’m not the only meanie who didn’t like Abby!</p>