Doctor Who: Irrefutable Proof I'm a Nerd

I really, really like Britain.  It's what I'm writing my dissertation on (well, mostly), and when it's disgustingly hot out I love nothing more than watching British murder mysteries and pretending that it's actually 50 degrees and rainy.  I'm also a huge nerd.  So it's kind of weird that it took me so long to get into Doctor Who, which is one of (if not the) longest running shows in Britain.  I haven't seen the "classic" version of Doctor Who because there's like 40 million seasons and I just don't have that kind of attention span, but I *have* seen most of the new version, which began in 2005.  It's impossible to describe the show without sounding like a massive dork, but I'll do my best.

An Ode to LOST: A show that made me cry approximately 1,000 times

Oh, LOST.  You are quite possibly the most addicting show I've ever seen, and that includes Pretty Little Liars and Battlestar Galactica.  You made me happy, sad, angry, and really, really annoyed several times over, and even when you had an episode entirely on Nikki and Paolo (ugh, those two) I couldn't quit you.

Things I've cried at that are embarrassing

1. The end of Captain America
2. The beginning of Star Trek
3. Roughly 10 minutes of the last Harry Potter*
4. Google's It Gets Better commercial
5. A McDonald's Olympic commercial
6. Extreme Home Makeover
7. Every Jin and Sun episode of LOST*
8. At least one episode of Revenge
9. The series finale of Dawson's Creek
10. Several times during The Hunger Games*

*These things aren't embarrassing because I cried (after all, they are all well-written and intended to be emotional) but because I didn't just get teary-eyed so much as full-on ugly cry for 10+ minutes.