Rebirth?

Previously On Kenny Sage Talks TV, Yo!...

Once upon a time there was a guy who loved TV, watched a lot of it, loved reading about TV, read about a lot of it, and who had way too much time on his hands. So he decided to start a blog where he would talk about TV and try to review it, like all those websites he read. And it was fine at first. He enjoyed it. Even early on, when his computer access became very limited through unforeseen circumstances he kept at it. Until he stopped.

Why? A combination of factors. Trying to do too much with too little and not being super great at thinking critically at the time, which led to not being happy with the quality of the work (you can read the archives before this post if you want, but I can't imagine why you would want to do that to yourself. It's largely terrible and doesn't really reach past fine), which led to increasingly not enjoying the work which led to stopping. Because if the enjoyment wasn't there, why do it? It was something he was doing just for fun and it wasn't fun anymore, So he stopped. But he kept watching TV and thinking about it and reading about it and talking about it to anyone who also cared about TV. And then he started wondering what could have been if he had just stayed with his blog. If he had cut down on coverage and kept playing with the format but kept writing, would he have found his voice? Would he start enjoying it again? If he started writing again, could he actually stay with it this time? He could never learn the answer to those first two questions. The third one though was a different story.

Which brings us to here. And the losing of that 3rd-person device (you're welcome). I've decided to start writing about TV again and this time, I hoping to not suddenly stop 8 months in (except for the summer, when I'll actually be off doing things that aren't watching TV. Updates will be minimal then.). I've decided to revive the old blog because it already exists and I don't want to sweep my old failures under the rug. I want to embrace them and hope that'll make me a better writer. That being said, I am not going back to any of my old formats. I'm going to be retooling things to make this easier to manage.

How? Well I'm probably not going to do weekly recaps. I might talk about a particular episode of something I really enjoyed but I don't want to feel constrained to do that every week, especially if I don't have much to say about it. What I am hoping to do is talk about shows I like in general. Shows that I think more people should be watching. I want to really go into why I like these shows so much and find things about these shows that might appeal to others. I'll mostly talk about shows currently airing (or streaming in the case of something like a Netflix show), but also hopefully older ones or more obscure ones (I know the world is clamouring for an entry about Danger 5). I also really want to talk about random episodes of TV I really like. Other than that, who knows? I'm keeping my options open. Maybe I'll even talk about non-TV things (how crazy would that be?).

All I know for sure is I want to start again. So whether you're an old reader (did I even have old readers? Never really figured that one out) or new, I hope you'll take this journey with me. Until I quit again. Just kidding. I hope.