Hey Guys,
Yesterday saw strong performances from all eight shows, but the four victors who have reached the next round are Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, Smallville and Game of Thrones. Congratulations to all four shows and it should be interesting to see how they all perform against each other in the next round...
Today sees a couple of intriguing polls from some of the finished shows that made their way into the competition. First up is the critically divided superhero drama Heroes taking on funeral home hit Six Feet Under as well as Aaron Sorkin's greatest and political drama The West Wing challenging the original and classic vampire powerhouse in Buffy.
The rules for, for anyone new to the competition is very simple. There will be new sets of shows against each other every day in a new set of polls... simply vote for your favourite and the show with the most votes will win that days poll and head into the next round.
Don't forget to spread the word, and tweet out the competition to friends as well as facebook liking the post...
Also if you are taking part in the prediction competition, don't forget to follow your scores HERE We already have no perfect brackets left in the competition, Round 1 so far has been ruthless! Today is the first day we have a standalone leader, with Sergey Sevostianov on 20 points and clear of five other players on 19 points. Can he hold onto the lead through todays set of polls...
All that's left to say, is good luck to every show...
... and let the battles begin!
Round 1
Heroes vs. Six Feet Under
Heroes
Seasons: 4 (2006-2010)
Major Awards: 1 Emmy Win, 13 Emmy Nominations & 2 Golden Globe Nominations
2010 Competition Placing: N/A
Six Feet Under
Seasons: 5 (2001-2005)
Major Awards: 9 Emmy Wins, 4 Emmy Nominations & 3 Golden Globe Wins, 5 Golden Globe Nominations
2010 Competition Placing: 49th
The West Wing vs. Buffy
The West Wing
Seasons: 7 (1997-2006)
Major Awards: 26 Emmy Wins, 69 Emmy Nominations & 2 Golden Globe Wins, 18 Golden Globe Nominations
2010 Competition Placing: 36th
Buffy
Seasons: 7 (1997-2003)
Major Awards: 2 Emmy Wins, 12 Emmy Nominations & 1 Golden Globe Nomination
2010 Competition Placing: 43rd
Previous Rounds:
Day 1 - Castle vs. The Walking Dead & Desperate Housewives vs. Chuck
Day 2 - Flashforward vs. Scrubs & Alias vs. The X-Files
Day 3 - Criminal Minds vs. Burn Notice & Dexter vs. Supernatural
Day 4 - MASH vs. The Sopranos & Farscape vs. Charmed
Day 5 - House vs. True Blood & NCIS vs. The Big Bang Theory
Day 6 - Dollhouse vs. Pushing Daisies & Arrested Development vs. 24
Day 7 - Community vs. White Collar & Breaking Bad vs. The Vampire Diaries
Day 8 - Sex & The City vs. The Wire & The OC vs. LOST
Day 9 - Fringe vs. Modern Family & Glee vs. Greys Anatomy
Day 10/11 - Prison Break vs. Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls vs. ER, The Good Wife vs. Smallville & Gossip Girl vs. Game of Thrones
As always, enjoy the competition and don't forget to comment on who you voted for below so we can all agree/disagree with you!
Any queries email me at adamdharris@spoilertv.com
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Good Luck!
Adam
Six Feet Under
ReplyDeleteBuffy
No difficult choices for me today.
I voted Heroes as up until the final episode of season one it was a very snazzy and well crafted show.
ReplyDeleteAnd The West Wing as Aaron Sorkin created a masterpiece of a show that is just quality drama, comedy, political thriller... Brilliant!
I've only seen a couple episodes of each show so I went ahead and voted for Heroes and Buffy. Because what I did see was good.
ReplyDeleteHeroes and Buffy!:)
ReplyDeleteSix Feet Under and The West Wing. Quality TV is crying right now.
ReplyDeleteSix feet under and of course Buffy!!
ReplyDeleteSix Feet Under is one of the bast damn shows ever! Hopefully it doesn't lose...I'm still upset about Gossip Girl :(
ReplyDeleteHeroes for my bracket since I never watched either show. Although based on their plots, I would probably like Heroes better anyway.
ReplyDeleteBuffy because it's Buffy! I liked the first couple seasons of The West Wing, but Buffy sucked me in to its allegory and mythology. Sure both of them had sucky seasons and some characters I hated (President Bartlet, Dawn Summers), but season 2 of Buffy contains some of the best TV episodes I have ever watched. To this day, Becoming brings me to tears and I'm not usually a crier. In fact, although it is sacrilege for me to say, Becoming beats What is and What Should Never Be as my favorite TV episode and I am a hardcore Supernatural fan.
Six Feet Under
ReplyDeleteBuffy
Heroes had such a great first season, it's a shame the rest of the show never lived up to that. I don't think it really recovered after the writers strike.
Six Feet Under vs. Heroes was a toss-up for me, and it looks pretty close in the vote results. But Buffy wins over just about anything. There's no way anyone that watched the entire series could not vote for Buffy.
ReplyDeleteYou didn't like Jed? :O Jed was awesome, even down to the finer details such as the way he swings his jacket over his head t put it on... legend!!
ReplyDeleteI found him to be hypocritical, egotisitcal, sanctimonious, and ultra liberal. He annoyed me from the start.
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean!I recently started to watch Buffy for the first time and I just finished season 6 now!I have to say it has become one of my favourite shows ever!!!!And Becoming was incredible!!!I cried and I have only done that while watching tv only during lost's finale The End and The Body in Buffy Season 5!I hope it wins!!!
ReplyDeleteare you sure you watched Buffy then?
ReplyDelete:P
You obviously haven't seen all of Buffy then.
ReplyDeleteBUFFY BUFFY BUFFY :)
ReplyDeleteand six feed under
I loved heroes in season one. It was an incredible show. And even though the next 3 or 4 seasons were really messed up and pretty crappy, I still never missed an episode. So my vote goes to heroes.
ReplyDeleteAlso voted Buffy coz it was my bracket pick
Six Feet Under
ReplyDeleteBuffy The Vampire Slayer
Although The West Wing gets an honorable mention for being in it's 12th season in the altverse. ;)
The West Wing
ReplyDeleteBuffy and Six Feet Under.
ReplyDeleteTwo of the best TV shows of their decade if not ever.
lol Only a couple episodes a few years back but from what I saw I liked it.
ReplyDeleteHeroes
ReplyDeleteNever watched either show in the first poll, but voted Heroes for my bracket.
Buffy. Buffy. Buffy. =D
I love it. Amazing show.
I honestly have no idea how to vote for this one. I haven't seen The West Wing, and I didn't like Buffy enough to blindly vote for it over a possibly more-deserving show. As for the other, I feel like Six Feet Under is clearly the better show from a quality standpoint (or at least a writing standpoint), but I really enjoyed Seasons 1 and 4 of Heroes (even if Season 3 was the worst thing I've ever seen on TV). I didn't really enjoy Six Feet Under though. Too much gratuity for gratuity's sake, very few likable characters, a plot line that just didn't interest me in the least (beyond the family grieving Nathan, Sr.). But the writing itself wasn't nearly as flawed a mess as Heroes's was.
ReplyDeleteSo I want to vote for Heroes out of the two, but I feel Six Feet Under is more deserving despite me not liking it as much...
Buffy of course. I'm only on season 2, Angelus has just arrived, but it's an awesome show.
ReplyDeleteEven though the last 2 seasons of Six Feet Under weren't that good anymore it still was way better than anything on Heroes after season 1. Plus it had an insanely good series finale.
ReplyDeleteAnd I never really understood all the hype about Buffy. I watched it occasionally and there were some fun episodes, but I never became a regular viewer. West Wing was a great show, so it gets my vote.
six feet under and westwing
ReplyDeleteThese competitions hurt my head. West wing losing to Buffy and SFU losing to Heroes? Seriously?
ReplyDeleteFangirls united :(
Six feet under and Buffy!
ReplyDeleteYou guys really need to give buffy another try. It's very well written (up to a certain point, anyway) and very funny.
Actually I think season 4 of Heroes was one of the worst things I've seen on TV and I really liked season 3, almost as much as I did season 1. I think the show was a really great potential, but turned out mediocre. But still, my love for some characters and the fact I've never watched Six Feet Under made me vote for Heroes.
ReplyDeleteWHAT?! I always thought you were such a die hard What Is and What Should Never Be fan!!! now I definitely have to see Becoming (I only watched Buffy from time to time when nothing else was on)
ReplyDeleteBUFFY!!!
ReplyDeleteWow. So I'm not the only one who just started borrowing Buffy DVDs from the library. It is an awesome show with an imaginative premise. I can how it has influenced other shows. So very entertaining. I'm in the middle of season 4 right now and yes, Becoming was wonderful. Wild at Heart was sad. I tried to get into The West Wing but never could, but it has an impressive number of Emmy wins. I remember the time our local TV critic raged because "the wrong Sarah with 3 names won" the Emmy (the annoying SJP beat out SMG. Travesty).
I didn't vote in the other poll because I never watched a full episode of either, but from the little I saw, I probably would prefer Six Feet Under.
Heroes and West Wing for me.
ReplyDeleteAlmost picked Buffy, though. Simply because of the memories. I used to watch it when I was a college in the dorm tv room, and there was this special cameraderie between the people who watched it together, even though we didn't necessarily hang out otherwise.
I know! I'd vote Jed Bartlett for President. Actually, I'd probably vote for Martin Sheen as President.
ReplyDeleteBut I found the character of Jed to be very likeable because he was flawed. Had a bit too much of a temper sometimes, stepped in it more than once. But they were all like that. Such a well cast show. What kind of genius put Stockard Channing and Martin Sheen together as a couple. And the guest/recurring cast was brilliant too. Ainsley Hayes, Lord Marbury....and Sheriff Lucas Buck as the inarticulate Bob Russell. Oh, the irony.
Ha! I am a diehard WiaWSNB fan. I still consider it the best episode Supernatural has ever done. It's just that Becoming is the pinnacle of perfect. However, if you want to view it at its best, you have to watch everything that comes before it. The emotional punch comes from the struggle and the relationships the story has built in the first two seasons. I don't think it would kick you in the heart without being emotionally invested in all the characters.
ReplyDeleteYou are so lucky. Angelus is right where Buffy went from great to unforgettable. That's it. I'm doing a Buffy season 2 marathon this week.
ReplyDeleteThat The West Wing is losing is, unfortunately, everything that is wrong in television today. I was obsessed with Buffy for a good ten years but it just doesn't compare.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who's seen all of Buffy weeps for quality tv.
ReplyDeleteUltra liberal is a bad thing?
ReplyDeleteI did. It's weak television compared to The West Wing. Especially anything post-Season 5.
ReplyDeleteNo hard choices for me today!
ReplyDeleteBuffy . . . because it's Buffy!!!!
I grew up with that show. I still rewatch it, laugh at the dialogue, cry during The Body and The Gift and quote it to my friends (who don't get it, because they haven't watched it, but I'll convert them yet).
Six Feet Under . . . because I haven't watched Heroes but loved the feel of the show.
I wholly agree!! =D
ReplyDeleteI've seen until Phases (ep 15) and I've been taping them recently because a channel in canada is showing them so i'm going to wait a few weeks till i have seasons 2 and 3 and watch them all :D. I switched from Buffy to Bones because Boreanaz is amazing and i ended up watching 85 episodes in the past 5 weeks. I think I have a problem.
ReplyDeleteI am a new Buffy Watcher, and it is THE BEST SHOW EVER. I am in love with it. And it is no surprise that is got my vote.
ReplyDeleteBUFFY ALL THE WAY!!!
BEST SHOW EVER !
VOTE BUFFY!
Yep, very few shows can surpass the quality of TV Buffy brought us. Well at least in the first seasons. The latter ones not so much.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely! In my experience ultra anything is usually a bad thing. Jed was an example of that.
ReplyDeleteOf course if you're an ultra fan of say a show about 2 brothers saving the world - that's an exception. :-)
no
ReplyDeleteWhy NOT?
ReplyDeleteIts Buffy !! <3