cool traveling stories
So in between bouts of X-Files I've been rewatching Haven, which is like candy for people who claim to like shows for being creepy and clever but actually just like to watch endearing characters bicker with each other forever, and by "people" obviously I mean me here.
I made the mistake, first time this show aired, of watching it even a bit for the mysteries, and I just ended up getting frustrated that there were hardly ever any real villains, and now I feel dumb for that because that is kind of the point. This is basically a show about people being stuck with really inventively terrible superpowers and no control of them whatsoever, like the guy who makes all the food rot if he eats when he's angry, or the kid whose nightmares kill people. It can be creepy, but mostly it's just kind of sad and frustrating for everyone involved.
Also, for a SyFy show and all, the characters on Haven are unexpectedly great. The characters are endearingly awkward without being defined as ~quirky~; see also the entire episode that Nathan and Audrey spend going around together comfortably needling each other about how neither of them has any friends. I love them; I love them together so much that I almost don't care whether the show ends up shipping them or not, even though there's a clever little plot point that I will not spoil y'all for that makes it look pretty likely. But everyone is really really endearing, and there's a solid little OT3 fandom for it, and even some of the weekly one-off characters are really heartbreaking.
This is a show starring a stoic cop of very few words with a slightly mysterious past, and also he does decoupage and listens to Patsy Cline when he's sad. That should tell you something.
In conclusion, I'm watching the episode where a shapeshifter infiltrates Audrey's birthday party, and as soon as I pay my account back up I desperately need an icon of Nathan standing there with his party balloon going >:| at the room. I only wish he had a party hat to go with it.
I made the mistake, first time this show aired, of watching it even a bit for the mysteries, and I just ended up getting frustrated that there were hardly ever any real villains, and now I feel dumb for that because that is kind of the point. This is basically a show about people being stuck with really inventively terrible superpowers and no control of them whatsoever, like the guy who makes all the food rot if he eats when he's angry, or the kid whose nightmares kill people. It can be creepy, but mostly it's just kind of sad and frustrating for everyone involved.
Also, for a SyFy show and all, the characters on Haven are unexpectedly great. The characters are endearingly awkward without being defined as ~quirky~; see also the entire episode that Nathan and Audrey spend going around together comfortably needling each other about how neither of them has any friends. I love them; I love them together so much that I almost don't care whether the show ends up shipping them or not, even though there's a clever little plot point that I will not spoil y'all for that makes it look pretty likely. But everyone is really really endearing, and there's a solid little OT3 fandom for it, and even some of the weekly one-off characters are really heartbreaking.
This is a show starring a stoic cop of very few words with a slightly mysterious past, and also he does decoupage and listens to Patsy Cline when he's sad. That should tell you something.
In conclusion, I'm watching the episode where a shapeshifter infiltrates Audrey's birthday party, and as soon as I pay my account back up I desperately need an icon of Nathan standing there with his party balloon going >:| at the room. I only wish he had a party hat to go with it.