(really must track down the rest of Hustle)

[deird1]

Tried White Collar. Got 1.5 episodes in, and decided, meh, I didn't care about the characters. So I turned it off.

Thing is, I love Leverage. And quite enjoyed Hustle. White Collar should, in theory, be right up my alley. And it's certainly a perfectly decent show. But unless I'm interested in the characters, I can never make it past the second episode of anything.

This also happened with Babylon 5, and Psych, and Wonderfalls. They're interesting, and high quality – but I just don't CARE.

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[hnpcc]

Babylon 5 took me until nearly the end of the first season to get why everyone was raving about it when it first came out. Once the major arcs get going it gets really interesting. Unfortunately it's very 60s sci-fi up until then - only major characters (who keep going on inappropriate for their rank missions) with guest minor characters who die in one episode, limited sets etc. (It probably didn't help that I watched it after the Battlestar Galactica remake, which was a lot broader. Not that I can ever watch that again.) The major arcs are good, the minor episodes... are less so. Some are not bad, but what makes it is the character development over the arc - and the best characters are the non-human ones.

[deird1]

Babylon 5 took me until nearly the end of the first season to get why everyone was raving about it when it first came out. Once the major arcs get going it gets really interesting.

This sounds a lot like Farscape! :)