TV shows are among my top three favourite forms of storytelling - the other two are books and theatre. I like them a lot better than movies, because you get proper story arcs and character arcs, and can spend a long time getting to know the characters. And don't always need to get to know completely new ones all the time. Overall I get more easily strained by visual media, but TV shows are my favourite kind for that reason. And I think you may just have explained why I can't usually get into comics or cartoons and such - maybe it's the drawn faces thing for me, too. I need the real people.
I get fannish over books, but TV series do have the advantage that you can spend much more time getting to know the characters. Still, Doctor Who is actually the first series I'm getting this level of obsessed with.
But by all means, I'm glad to get recommendations for new shows! It will take me a while to be caught up with the Whoniverse, certainly, but I might feel like something new in between at some point, especially since I now have noticed how much I can love watching a series.
Let's see, for some guidance, things I have loved in the past before Doctor Who include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, BBC's Sherlock, the first couple of seasons of Once Upon a Time (eventually the writing got too bad for me to put up with), and on the miniseries front, Cambridge Spies and BBC adaptations of Jane Austen and other classics. For someone who's always been a huge sf/f book geek, I have huge gaps in my scifi & fantasy series education - even the only Star Trek I know is quite a bit of The Next Generation I watched as a kid - so I can probably be recommended even Really Obvious Things. I'm not too good at violence, and the scary episodes of Doctor Who (The Empty Child, Blink, The Silence of the Library etc.) are about as scary as I can take. (Midnight and Waters of Mars were actually more than I could take.)
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Date: 2016-09-04 04:28 pm (UTC)I get fannish over books, but TV series do have the advantage that you can spend much more time getting to know the characters. Still, Doctor Who is actually the first series I'm getting this level of obsessed with.
But by all means, I'm glad to get recommendations for new shows! It will take me a while to be caught up with the Whoniverse, certainly, but I might feel like something new in between at some point, especially since I now have noticed how much I can love watching a series.
Let's see, for some guidance, things I have loved in the past before Doctor Who include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gilmore Girls, BBC's Sherlock, the first couple of seasons of Once Upon a Time (eventually the writing got too bad for me to put up with), and on the miniseries front, Cambridge Spies and BBC adaptations of Jane Austen and other classics. For someone who's always been a huge sf/f book geek, I have huge gaps in my scifi & fantasy series education - even the only Star Trek I know is quite a bit of The Next Generation I watched as a kid - so I can probably be recommended even Really Obvious Things. I'm not too good at violence, and the scary episodes of Doctor Who (The Empty Child, Blink, The Silence of the Library etc.) are about as scary as I can take. (Midnight and Waters of Mars were actually more than I could take.)