it's like a vacation
only i'm spending it on the couch. Last week I had the self-inflicted cramps, due to screwing up my birth control while in Michigan, and this week I have whatever the hell bug is going around right now. I think my flu shot has prevented the worst of it, the upper-respiratory part that everyone else has been getting, but I still have the minor fever and extreme fatigue and body aches. Seriously, it felt like an accomplishment making it up the five stairs from the lower to upper part of the house just now. I haven't felt this wiped out since I was in the middle of the worst of the endometriosis. At least there isn't pain.
The silver lining of being home on the couch most of this week is that I have caught up with Supernatural. And I guess it's coming back next week? So the wait won't be so long.
My impression of it hasn't changed very much since my last post -- it can be clunky as all hell, and they really need to learn how to SHOW NOT TELL sometimes. And yet, the obsessive watching.
I am apparently in the fannish minority or something, because I enjoyed season 4 and have liked what they've been doing so far with season 5. I'm not sure if this is due to mainlining all 4.5 seasons in about a month, so that there's no time for me to form my own ideas about what should be happening rather than what actually is happening? Less time for the emotional impact to fester? I don't know. I just know I read other people's reactions and feel like I've been watching a different show.
Maybe it's because I don't ship anyone on the show, maybe it's because the Winchester family dynamic is all too familiar in many ways (at the root -- obviously my family wasn't cursed by demons, or whatever). I dunno.
Watching the episodes as they came out, within the context of greater fandom, must be a very different viewing experience than the one I had, so I've been trying to keep that in mind, but frankly I've felt a bit intimidated about stating my opinions publicly, since they appear to be so drastically different from the majority. Maybe I just don't get how everything in the fandom seems to be taken very, very personally. And, yeah, I haven't been there in the middle of it, so who's to say how I would have reacted.
I fully expect to get over that intimidation presently.
In the mean time, I have watched this vid approximately 453 times, and this vid only slightly fewer.
The silver lining of being home on the couch most of this week is that I have caught up with Supernatural. And I guess it's coming back next week? So the wait won't be so long.
My impression of it hasn't changed very much since my last post -- it can be clunky as all hell, and they really need to learn how to SHOW NOT TELL sometimes. And yet, the obsessive watching.
I am apparently in the fannish minority or something, because I enjoyed season 4 and have liked what they've been doing so far with season 5. I'm not sure if this is due to mainlining all 4.5 seasons in about a month, so that there's no time for me to form my own ideas about what should be happening rather than what actually is happening? Less time for the emotional impact to fester? I don't know. I just know I read other people's reactions and feel like I've been watching a different show.
Maybe it's because I don't ship anyone on the show, maybe it's because the Winchester family dynamic is all too familiar in many ways (at the root -- obviously my family wasn't cursed by demons, or whatever). I dunno.
Watching the episodes as they came out, within the context of greater fandom, must be a very different viewing experience than the one I had, so I've been trying to keep that in mind, but frankly I've felt a bit intimidated about stating my opinions publicly, since they appear to be so drastically different from the majority. Maybe I just don't get how everything in the fandom seems to be taken very, very personally. And, yeah, I haven't been there in the middle of it, so who's to say how I would have reacted.
I fully expect to get over that intimidation presently.
In the mean time, I have watched this vid approximately 453 times, and this vid only slightly fewer.