I watched it from the beginning on Sunday nights. We had three shows (L&C, Murder, She Wrote and SeaQuest) and two vcrs so if we were ever not home on Sunday night...it was ugly.
Some of my friends made fun of me for how obsessed I was with the show...which, compared to how obsessed I am now, was
nothing! But I wasn't online. And when it was cancelled, I forgot about, with random searches on the internet sometimes when I was bored, trying to find out what happened to it (you know, with that whole awful ending place which I was convinced wasn't the end, I just missed the second part). Eventually discovered fanfic and am so much more obsessed than I was then.
But, as someone said in the delurking thread, I think, I *stay* obsessed because of all the friends in the fandom as much as because of the characters/show/fanfic. We talk about so much on IRC, AIM, and the boards. I don't know what I'd do without everyone.
Bethy