We love TV here at What Culture – in fact we’re glued to ours 24/7, and despite what our mum always warned us as kids we don’t even have square eyes. Not yet anyway.
And it’s no real surprise we’re so keen on TV, it’s a good time to be a fan of the small screen. Even despite the inexplicably still-popular talent shows that take up way too much prime-time and push exceptional shows out to lesser channels or less sociable times, the airwaves were dominated in the past twelve months by fan favourite shows like The Walking Dead, Doctor Who, Homeland and The Big Bang Theory, proving that genre shows are now the staple for TV fans.
And the last 12 months saw some truly awesome televisual moments, especially for those of us who happily proclaim ourselves to be geeks. And this article is celebrating the very best TV Geek moments of the year. Click next to reveal all.
- Warning: There will be SPOILERS ahead. If you didn’t watch much TV this year and have a digital box full of catching-up to do, be warned you might find some juicy info included here that you haven’t yet watched,
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Fringe: Letters of Transit
Game of Thrones: wildfire in Blackwater, really no GoT on your list?
Continuum: There’s some cool moments
Doctor Who: Agreed with Amy and Rory, Doctor as Sherlock in the snowman was really cool…
Sherlock: Sherlock vs Moriarty?
The death of Lori was just the walking dead killing another boring character that nobody cared. Rick and Carl kind saved that episode.
Good call on Sherlock!
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While these were all seriously geeky moments, I was geekig out like crazy during S5,E6 of Castle, “The Final Frontier.” while there wasn’t anything that geeky happening within the Castle lore, the entire episode was devoted the the “fanboy.”
With appearances by Jonathan Frakes (who also directed) and Armin Shimmerman, along with countless references to Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, and tons of other Sci-Fi lore, it was a serious geek moment.
“No show does suspense and genuine human emotion quite like The Walking Dead”
Sorry, but I can name lots of shows that do suspense and genuine human emotion BETTER than the Walking Dead:
- Breaking Bad: Besides being the best show on tv, it’s the most suspenseful show on tv, as evidenced by (SPOILERS FOR THE MID-SEASON FINALE OF THE FIFTH SEASON OF BREAKING BAD) the extremely suspenseful scene in the mid-season finale “Gliding Over All”, in which the family is having a lunch beside the pool and NOTHING IS REALLY HAPPENING, but, due to the way the scene is shot and what you’ve come to expect from the show, you’re thinking cartel hitmen are gonna storm in and kill the entire family or something (END OF BREAKING BAD SPOILERS). As for human emotions, well, had you watched the entire show I’m sure you’d be able to come up with plenty of examples.
- Boardwalk Empire: (BOARDWALK EMPIRE SEASON 3 SPOILERS) If you watch the episodes “Two Imposters” and “Margate Sands”, you’d know that Boardwalk Empire can be very suspenful too; for example, well, the entire Two Imposters episode, really, as you never know if Nucky and Eddie are gonna be ambushed by Gyp’s hitmen before they get to a safehouse or something, and you fear Eddie’s gonna die from his gunshot wound (it’s pretty safe to say Nucky’s not gonna die, he’s the protagonist), or the entire Margate Sands episode, namely the Richard scenes, as you don’t if he’s gonna make it out alive from Gillian’s whorehouse.
- Homeland: The show is filled with suspense (it is after all, a thriller).
And anyways, I still think that Walking Dead doesn’t even do human emotion all that well to begin with (with the exception of the Killer Within episode), as for suspense, it does it pretty well, yet not so much as to say it does better than the shows I listed above (Game of Thrones can have a lot of suspense in it too).