oes anyone on here get really stupidly obsessive about a television programme or film?

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I get disks from "Lovefilm", and I usually watch them once, maybe watch a bit of the commentary or extras, then send it back to get the next one.

But I got the first episode of "Hornblower" starring Ioan Gruffudd and it's utterly obsessed me! Last couple of days, I have watched it morning noon and night. I could probably give a blow by blow account of every scene and have memorised some of the dialogue. Can't say I understand all the Naval jargon but that's the next thing on the list to do, that and read the entire works of C S Forester who wrote those books. And I want to go back to Dundee where there's a ship from that era and you can wander round it. I want to do that and half shut my eyes and pretend I'm on the ship in the film.

Today I had to get the children to stage an intervention and MAKE me seal up the "Lovefilm" envelope. But a weasly part of my mind is thinking... I have spare envelopes... I could rip it open just one last time.

Does anyone else get like this?

I started with Buffy/Angel and role played.. Read fan fiction.. Went to conventions and met most of the casts.
Then it was Stargate and went to Vancouver to see the sets
Now my obsession is Ncis ... I love it.. Watched it many times.. Watch the new eps before they show here etc.. would love to meet any of the cast and I still hold hope that one day this will happen.

Have just ordered it!

Just series 1 in case we don't like it...

I'm a serial obsessive - it probably started with Star Trek as a kid, but I switch to a new one every few years and get fully into online "fandom" for quite a few of them. I entirely echo the support for the West Wing - it properly sucks you in.

I was well into House for a while but I think it's gone downhill with the last couple of series.

Oh, I was in denial about forgot about my Strictly obsession. Watch them all, watch It Takes Two, read blogs and chatrooms about the show, have special breakfast/lunch sessions with a girlfriend to discuss it, have a final-night dinner for a select group of people as sad as me about it like-minded lovelies ...

Oh I have a few..

Varying from Ab Fab (can't wait for the xmas special their filming now!!!), Men Behaving Badly, CSI Vegas and NY (not so much Miami), ER, Friends, Criminal Minds.

I'm that bad that my mother called me to ask what was the name of a bloke that died in CSI:Miami. I was in the queue for a farm and people around me were sniggering at the fact that 1- she called and 2- I knew it.

oh I forgot the earlier seasons of Stargate too.

Thanks carer - will look out for it. Can't wait for The Killing 2.

Go, BalloonSlayer - come back and talk WW when you've been properly initiated

I also remember The Lakes - it was brilliant. Amazing cast, some of them at the beginning of their careers. Can't think why I missed Boston Kickout.

I cannot get into The Wire, though. I've tried about three times, but I just get bored. I know this is sacrilege .

greencolorpack, if Dundee's too far, are you any closer to Hartlepool? Have been to this with Dh and the kids, and it was FAB!

I get pretty obsessed with TV and books, usually stuff that comes under the scifi/fantasy/cult genre. At the moment my main focus is on Supernatural , I'm pretty involved in the online fandom, I go to conventions and such like, but I can ramble on about all sorts of TV related stuff to an embarrassing degree.

It's a hobby

I can give quite a good example with Criminal Minds actually. I do like US Cop procedurals (watch the CSIs and NCIS) but had missed this one. My sister persuaded me to watch one and I loved Spencer the show so much that I caught up the 5 seasons I'd missed in less than a month (I work part-time and the DCs are in school, and I thrive on very little sleep... )

I saw a comment on Twitter that there are supposed to be some Life on Mars books out soonish. And that they are just waiting for some contracts to be signed.

We don't watch anything while it's actually on TV; we have to wait for netflix. So I get all the discs of a show in a row and watch them obsessively and think that it's the best show ever. And then it ends and I think I'll die...until the next show comes along. I'm a fickle cow. :o

Battlestar Galactica was great, 6 Feet Under...trying to remember others.

Another West Wing obsessive here

I now download favourite episodes on Itunes to watch

I am really fucking sad

In fact us wingnuts had our own thread on mumsnet

I am currentky binging in Mad Men and although it is truly great it lac.ks a bit of heart I think

Norman Tebbit hush now, none of that language on this thread. We're all broadminded people here, noone's going to judge.

Missed a trick with the West Wing! Apparently it's the best thing in the world.

Poledra, thanks for the info. I might try and see that. Having been to the ship at Dundee I feel I can relate a lot better to the scenes on "Hornblower" below deck because that ship I visited was from that era.

I love Breaking Bad rosemary but I have to fast-forward the title credits because DH and I nerdishly recite chemical symbols and always miss the start.

I tried to get my sister into it on the grounds that she's very proud that her son has a first in chemistry and doesn't miss an opportunity to drop it into conversation - see, she's even got me trained.

However, she missed the point and started calculating how much he could make as a crystal meth cook rather than a graduate trainee with a precarious job in the public sector.

Same as when I mentioned that Tom Hardy (swoon) plays a chemistry genius-turned E-cook in Layercake.

She does realise there's the small matter of about 14 years for a first offence if caught - or death in a fireball. But the student loan would vanish, which would be tempting

I loved Between The Lines but Neil Pearson is ever so raddled these days.

When I was younger, it was Quantum Leap, X-Files, Star Trek, Babylon 5.
Then went through a phase of Buffy and Angel.
Current favourites are Dexter and Bones.

I am stupidly obsessed with Dean Winchester Supernatural.

I even read hour after hour of fanfic just to get more Dean/Sam/Castiel.

YY to X-Files. So good!

By the way has anyone seen Treme? Any good?

I can recommend Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip although it does go a bit bonkers

oh doctor who! i utterly believe that police phone boxes are bigger on the inside . I have passed my all-abiding love onto my youngest son (although my 16 yo DD now has a Matt Smith poster on her bedroom wall after the family outing to the doctor who experience on monday..) he is currently reading classic who novelisations. it is so wonderful to share something that was a huge part of my childhood with my children. :)

Anything fantasy or vampire related

Game of Thrones - On the third book, loved the first series on TV. Haven't ventured onto fansites for fear of spoilers - but will be there once I have finished the books

Twin Peaks - spent days trawling the internet for theories and explanations

Twilight - Don't flame me

OvO Have you read flutter and wow? (I hope when you said Dean/Sam/Castiel you really meant Dean/Sam/Castiel..... )

I liked Treme though it's not the most fast-moving of things, which I think is what some people don't like about it. I found the final episode fantastic because it concludes a big storyline. But some people might have found it a bit of a slog getting there.

The music is a big part of it and it's been a revelation because I'd have never have put myself down as a fan of that type of music.

Elvis Costello appears in it which was a bonus for me because I'm a big fan. I have to admit though that he can't bloody well act even when he's playing himself.

I totally didn't mean slash. But I do enjoy some when in the right mood so I've added that to my bookmarks for later. Thank you.