I just finished watching the latest episode of The Totally Rad Show, a weekly video podcast. If you haven’t checked them out, please do so now. For this end of year episode they named their top 5 favorite movies, games, and TV shows. This got me thinking hard about my top 5’s of 2007. Here I list my top picks in movies, TV, video games, books, songs and comics.

Movies

(in no particular order)

• Hot Fuzz
• High School Musical 2
• The Number 23
• Shoot ‘Em Up
• Planet Terror

For my first category I couldn’t determine a clear ranking. I went with the 5 movies that came to mind when I tried thinking of the movies I enjoyed the most this year.

TV

1. Scrubs
2. Psych
3. 30 Rock
4. Avatar: The Last Air Bender
5. Pushing Daisies
6. Hustle
7. Heroes
8. The Office
9. Journeyman
10. Dirty Sexy Money

I made this section go to 10 simply because there are so many more of my favorite TV shows and I wanted to give some love to all of them. I also wanted to put Buffy The Vampire Slayer on this list, but it ended in 2003. I had never watched Buffy before, but a few weeks ago I started at the beginning and have been watching them all in order. So far I am loving it.

Video Games

1. Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords
2. Orange Box
3. Pokemon Diamond / Pearl
4. Contra 4
5. Guitar Hero 3

This has been an interesting year for gaming. I bought my first handheld gaming device: a nintendo DS. I absolutely love it, and it isn’t suprising that 3 of my top 5 games are for the DS. I don’t spend much time gaming on my PC anymore, with Orange Box the only new PC title I played this year. And technically the number 5 on my list, I barely play. Most of my enjoyment is from sitting around watching my two roommates rock out on Guitar Hero.

Books

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
2. Eldest - Christopher Paolini
3. Eragon - Christopher Paolini
4. The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
5. Redwall - Brian Jacques

I only recently started reading the His Dark Materials trilogy, so I have no doubt that if I had finished more than just the first one, the others may also have been in my top 5. It should also be noted that my list consists of books I read in 2007, not books that were released in 2007 (except for Harry Potter).

Songs

1. If Everyone Cared - Nickelback
2. It’s Not Over - Daughtry
3. Bet On It - High School Musical 2 Soundtrack
4. What I’ve Done - Linkin Park
5. Rockstar - Nickelback

Pretty simple decisions here. I just took the most played songs in my iTunes from 2007. Other top played songs were from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack, but they are from 2001 so I didn’t count them.

Comics & Web Comics

1. Penny Arcade
2. Ultimate Spiderman
3. Player Vs Player
4. Invincible
5. The Ultimates 2

Maybe not fair to group them together, but I really only started reading comics this year. So I combined them with my 2 favorite web comics to create my top 5.

This has been my wrap-up of the top media of 2007. Did I forget anything? Disagree with my lists? Post in the comments or link to your own top lists.