Well, for starters, I was never much of a nice girl... but here's my take on it all...
For starters, I did not want to watch the show. I think that needs to be established.
Hubby and I kept seeing those cheeseball promos on Sci-Fi-- you know, "five senses jacked to the max, high-performance justice, extrasensory protection"-- and hubby just falls in love. "We gotta watch that," he says.
"You gotta be kidding," I tell him.
But, hey, I love him, and he was working nights at that point and had the night off, so I let him have the remote and figured I'd do some laundry.
So I'm sort of half-following along, runing up and down two flights of stairs and checking in on the plot once in a while, and I glance over at the TV.
And the guy who's clearly Our Hero is at the hospital, trying to figure out what's wrong with him, and this guy comes in...
"Hey, who's the cute one? Is he a regular?"
"I don't know," hubby says, by now desperate to keep me in ONE PLACE for more than FIVE SECONDS. "Sit down, we'll find out."
So I sit down.
And I find out.
Just my luck, the cute one's a regular. The co-star, no less.
And damn, is he cute.
So there I am, hooked. Had it just been the cute guy, I might have been safe... but nooo, it was worse. The show was fun. A lot of fun, in a campy, gonzo, sort of way that was probably not what the original writers had intended. Their problem, not mine.
So why do I love The Sentinel?
Watch it a couple times... notice the sparks flying, the snappy dialogue... The Detroit Free Press called it "Moonlighting without the estrogen," and they were pretty damn close. If the writers had filled up some of the plot holes and let it go out into the Twilight Zone where it belonged, it might've been another Buffy the Vampire Slayer... ah well. Better to enjoy what we have then to sit around complain about what didn't happen...
At any rate, we'll always have the fanfic.
And to indulge my obession, I have become...
One of those Nutty Keeper Girls! Zoinks! Click here to see what I'm holding onto for Blair! (And be sure to check out Robyn's Sightings Page for a little more detail on what I'm keeping...
Oh, and just so you know all this fandom is for a good reason...
