Wise friend told me the post was too long so i'll break it down in a series of post, separating by the day the shows airs. I have 5 shows which I religiously follow on monday so i'll break that in part.
Some people identify themselves in books, others in songs. As for myself, it's probably TV shows. I watch a ridiculous amount of TV shows (last count I think I follow about 20 odds shows?). Why do you ask? Because I have a lot of time to kill and I'm bored.. ok not really true (ok.. partly). The real reason is that TV is a form of escape from reality. Every show has an element of my personality which represents me, which is understandable since I seem to be an agglomeration of different personalities. In order to make this easier, I'll only consider the TV shows that I have to watch every week and will break down if I don't.
Let's start with one of my all time favorite sit com, How I Met Your Mother. For those who have been living under a rock for the past 4 or 5 years, it's the story of 5 friends and how one of them met his wife. The setting is in Manhattan, which so happens to be one of my favorite city. Our protagonist Ted is a hopeless romantic, on an eternal quest to find his future wife. Marshall and Lily are a dysfunctional couple but yet somehow make it work. Robin is the resident gun ho proud canadian who loves her hockey and canadian roots. Finally, we got our AWESOME Barney with his wacky theories on picking up women and his quest of a perfect week. Oddly enough, each of these characters represents a part of myself: the hopeless romantic, the envy of having a relationship like Lily and Marshall (they still manage to have fun, do crazy things and not be a boring couple), the crazy hockey crazed canuck in me and the desire of being the super Barney with the suits, the bachelor pad, the storm trooper and the women!
Next is The Big Bang Theory, story of 4 stereotypical nerd/geeks with a ridiculously hot neighbor. As far as reality goes, none of those guys should be able to score a girl like Penny, yet Leonard manages to. Raj, Howard, Leonard and Sheldon are my inner geeks. Their obsession with Lord of the Rings, comic books, manga, gaming, all the nerdy stuff, that's me. Leonard gives me hope that I can one day find a pretty girl who accepts my geekiness and try to make an effort to enjoy and learn about the geek culture.
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