Anyone watch Ghost Whisperer?

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Is it worth watching or taping? It's on opposite Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis for me right now, but after the season finale of Atlantis tonight, and the times when SciFi isn't showing repeats, will it be a decent substitute?

I've already decided that the three "Invaders" clones aren't going to be worth watching. The three of them all sound so alike, I have trouble remembering which one is which. (Threshold, Surface and cantrememberthethirdone)

And then there is the new "Night Stalker" series. For crying out loud, right off the bat, the producers are saying they are "reimagining" the series, not reshooting it. That's a death knell without any further need for clarification. It certainly doesn't look like it had the "character" of the old series, and it certainly doesn't have Darren McGavin and Simon Oakland!

So far, I haven't been too impressed with the new shows, and I doubt I ever will be. They've run the gamut on reality shows, and now they're created so many "forensic" shows to duplicate CSI's success, that it's impossible to care anymore about the new ones. What we need is a balance again, with fresh shows, not copies or clones, and certainly nothing that is a "reimagining" of an old show.

Another reason I won't watch Battlestar Galactica. To me it's over the top dreck. At least the original series, though somewhat bland, was original! The new series is filled with melodramatic story arcs which are filled with needless complications and bad acting. Some won't agree--I hated Voyager, too, and some people think I'm nuts for that as well. (Just to be clear--I thought Enterprise was okay, but the whole season devoted to the Xindi turned me off completely, and I never watched its last season because they switched it around too many damned times in time slot. Even if they had some hot guys on the show, it wasn't worth my time and energy to commit to it.)

Now they've got like three shows devoted to people who can see and hear ghosts, and that's okay, except it's not the only "hook" that is necessary for a series. At least Medium has enough tension and plot with a disrupted family environment to make it more than just shallow. That's one of the reasons I'm hesitant about watching--if it's all "feel good" crap, it's gonna suck bigtime.

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1. kicking for the left coast

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2. Anything with Jennifer Love Hewitt

has got to be awfull......