Favourite vs Best (vs Importance)
I have talked about how i love to list before and this is basically gonna all be about that!!! Theyre have always been some troubles for me when ranking Top __ because no matter what there will always be x that is better but i maybe dont KILL MYSELF over like i do y and so how do they rank then??? WHERE DO THEY GO???
This actually particularly plagues me with my movies where i basically only have dramas on my lists?? No matter HOW MUCH i love 60s batman (SHARK REPELLENT BAT SPRAY!!!!!!!) there is no way i could feel right putting it above Eternal Sunshine because it is just BETTER all around. And Up is such a fantastic movie but Fantastic Mr Fox and Finding Nemo make me smile more, and The Lion King was my whole childhood. THESE ARE THINGS I WILL LITERALLY TAKE DAYS MULLING OVER??? (on the other side of this, comedy movies just don't stick as well for me because jokes have diminishing returns after a while. Dramas (or TV comedies) have more characters stuff that will hold me for a lot longer)
TV i've basically just steered clear of this problem by making three separate lists for best, favourite and important. I basically started thinking about this because i'm revisiting Breaking Bad. Everyone knows that is such an amazing and great show. But it will never be my favourite??? I would pick Friday Night Lights over it anytime even though i can say that BB is a much more solid and consistant show! On the other hand, is the fact that mad men and the Wire are the BEST inflating how much they are favourites??? I also have always felt weird not ranking The Simpsons like, #1 in comedies because i grew up on that, it inspired so many of the shows i love today, i can have conversations purely quoting it, and some of the episodes make me laugh, 20 yrs after they aired, like nothing else could! But i just dont... care about it as much as other things??? (and this is where this could spin off into a whole other thing about when things aired, when i was subject to them, later bad seasons tanishing shows etc but i am way too garbage at writing to continue)
IDK this is just a lot of rambling that boils down to me taking lists EXTREMELY serious.
This actually particularly plagues me with my movies where i basically only have dramas on my lists?? No matter HOW MUCH i love 60s batman (SHARK REPELLENT BAT SPRAY!!!!!!!) there is no way i could feel right putting it above Eternal Sunshine because it is just BETTER all around. And Up is such a fantastic movie but Fantastic Mr Fox and Finding Nemo make me smile more, and The Lion King was my whole childhood. THESE ARE THINGS I WILL LITERALLY TAKE DAYS MULLING OVER??? (on the other side of this, comedy movies just don't stick as well for me because jokes have diminishing returns after a while. Dramas (or TV comedies) have more characters stuff that will hold me for a lot longer)
TV i've basically just steered clear of this problem by making three separate lists for best, favourite and important. I basically started thinking about this because i'm revisiting Breaking Bad. Everyone knows that is such an amazing and great show. But it will never be my favourite??? I would pick Friday Night Lights over it anytime even though i can say that BB is a much more solid and consistant show! On the other hand, is the fact that mad men and the Wire are the BEST inflating how much they are favourites??? I also have always felt weird not ranking The Simpsons like, #1 in comedies because i grew up on that, it inspired so many of the shows i love today, i can have conversations purely quoting it, and some of the episodes make me laugh, 20 yrs after they aired, like nothing else could! But i just dont... care about it as much as other things??? (and this is where this could spin off into a whole other thing about when things aired, when i was subject to them, later bad seasons tanishing shows etc but i am way too garbage at writing to continue)
IDK this is just a lot of rambling that boils down to me taking lists EXTREMELY serious.