Well, the strike has only been going on two days, but it's already forced me to make drastic changes to my viewing habits. Almost every new show I was watching this season has been getting mediocre ratings and I figure the strike will probably kill them off for good, so I'll be dropping a lot of shows until after the strike is over. Except for ABC's amazing Pushing Daisies and Chuck and Gossip Girl and Dirty Sexy Money, but those shows will run out of scripts soon.
I'll also continue watching most of my returning shows until they run out of episodes: Ugly Betty, Supernatural, Desperate Housewives, The Office, and CSI to name a few. But I probably won't feel the urge to keep up with them...I can let them gather on my hard drive and watch them when I feel like it.
But for the most part my television schedule has cleared up significantly. If the strike lasts a while, what will I be doing?
Catching Up on My DVDs
I have about 15 movies I've bought that I haven't watched, most I've had for a YEAR or longer. I'll use my free time to watch all of those. I also have several seasons of shows to watch.
Cleaning Up My Hard Drive
I have hundreds of episodes of various shows on my hard drive that I need to watch, from things such as Arrested Development to Battlestar Galactica to the first season of Dawson's Creek. I'll be giving a lot of these shows a watch now, and the ones I dislike, I can delete the other episodes of said show and for the others, just watch as many as I can while the strike is going on.
Doing Other Stuff
Reading, cleaning, writing, working out...ah the stuff I'll have time for.
...Shows I'll Be Watching/Rewatching
During the strike, I plan to rewatch some DVDs I haven't seen in a while and catch up with other shows. Here's an incomplete list:
- Lost (Rewatch my first two season DVDs)
- Desperate Housewives (Rewatch my first two season DVDs)
- Roswell (Watch my season three DVDs)
- Smallville (Watch my season five and six DVDs)
- Veronica Mars (Rewatch them all)
- Dead Like Me (I saw the episodes before but haven't finished watching my DVDs since I bought them)
- The X-Files (I have the first five seasons, since buying the DVDs I've only watched the first two.)
- Millennium (I've seen all the episodes a long time ago but since buying the DVDs I have yet to watch them)
- Bones (season 2)
- Nip/Tuck (finish season 2)
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So that's basically MY plans for this strike. Might as well make the best out of a bad thing.