I don’t know how everyone else falls into their favorites, but it’s occurred to me that my system is rather… unique.

Rarely is it instantaneous. It’s a slow process, determining my favorites. And not because I’m mulling over it and trying to decide if I enjoy it. It’s because I completely forget about it.

Example: Chuck. Quite easily my favorite show [that's still on the air]. When it came out, I checked out the first episode. Wasn’t impressed. Ignored it for a while. Something made me watch it again, mid-season, and suddenly now I’m interested. And not just interested; I would scoot out of work five mintues early in order to catch the earlier train, just so I wouldn’t miss the first five minutes. And bought seasons 1 & 2 on DVD the day of their respective releases (season 3 isn’t out until September).

Another example: Fire Emblem. Same thing. Bought Radiant Dawn on a whim, played a couple chapters, got bored. A couple months later I picked it up again; suddenly it’s the greatest thing I’ve ever played. I now own all titles in the series, including the one that’s been fan-hacked into English. I bought a Gamecube and downloaded an emulator just for this series.

Now I wonder… how do other people determine their favorites?

There are a few things in which I’m going through stage two, the “ignoring” phase. I know I’m going to pick them up again someday and obtain yet another addiction. This includes Torchwood (watched one episode two months ago); Dr. Who (one episode, one month ago); and Baroque (RPG, completed level one two weeks ago). It may be some time before you hear me speak of these again.

And I nearly forgot the best one: Legend of Zelda, of course. I bought the NES game off ebay while in college, and it was six years until I properly sat down to play it. And we know how that ended up, if you’ve been paying attention at all. (Someday, I’ll bombard you with my random knowledge and memorabilia from this series.)

Thursday, 08 July 2010   ♦   general