*Dead now*
You know how I said I wanted to get lost in some really good TV for a while? Well, since that wasn't avaliable I decided to get lost in TWO shows that, when added up, pretty much ends up cancelling each other out. It's like TV-chemistry, what I do here, I'm practicly a scientist! Except for the whole knowing things and having gone to school and stuff... Anyway, the point is that if you want a good show and don't have one, you can just make your own by clobbering two shows together! Hmm, now I'm wishing I had done that more literally... Imagine, a show about the end of humanity, where everyone is turned into mindless zombies enslaved to their phones, and then there are also ACTUAL zombies! The Walking Girl! No, Gossip Dead! In which we find out that Gossip Girl is actually Darryl Dixon, because if anyone can survive and thrive on the Upper East Side, it's him. Ah, I wonder how many of my flisties actually watch both of these shows AND is reading this ramble... I'm betting not many!
Lets start with TWD. I've been craving zombies lately (that always sounds so wrong), playing some L4D again and stuff, so I thought I'd finally catch up with the new episodes, post-Barnpocalypse. Actually the spoiler about Dale dying was pretty instrumental in drawing me back too - it's bout damn time they start killing some people off! (She said, the sentence after mentioning The Barn. *cough*) Actually it's a bit of a shame it was Dale, since he was only like the 5th most annoying person on the show, but I won't look a gift-zombie in the mouth. For one thing, their mouths are GROSS.
And this does mean no more hinting at a possible Dale/Andrea pairing which was appearantly a thing in the comic books and has been haunting me throughout the show because WORLD OF NO to that, thankyouverymuch. Now I just need for Andrea to die herself, along with Shane and Lori and Carl. That's right, I said Carl, because WHAT! What a brat! Actually more than just a brat, he's turning into quite the creepy little psychopath. Hazard of hanging out with Shane, I guess - first Andrea and now Carl, he's like his own little epidemic infecting everyone with douchebaggery.
BTW, it was so fun to see Lori and Andrea arguing, I kept cheering for both of them to lose. Valid points all around - congratulations, you both suck! As do the writers, because boy they are not even pretending anymore are they? Is there a single female on staff with this show? Because I never usually even notice sexism on TV (having grown up with sitcoms and westerns), but I'm like 5 seconds away from starting my own drinking game where you have to go to the kitchen and clean a glass every time someone on this show mentions how it's women's role to cook and clean and how they should leave the killing and the decision-making to the big strong menfolk. It's ridiculous!
Still, there is something oddly brilliant and original about a show where you root for people to die, rather than to succeed/survive. It's like Survivor, or the opposite of Survivor, I'm not sure. But, along with Harper's Island and American Horror Story, I'm starting to wonder if maybe ... it's actually a trend? Or maybe the continuation of one, because maybe this is the next logical step to all those romantic vampires and werewolves? Stories where the "heroes", rather than rewarded with a super-hot, super-strong, never-dying boyfriend, get what they'd get in reality if they're stupid enough to gullibly trust monsters: good and killed? As much of a fan I am of TVD (and used to be of TB), maybe that's where this trend should go.
But yeah, once you've had enough of gloominess, gore and characters you want to see eaten alive, where better to turn than Gossip Girl? It is the exact opposite of TWD - glittery, shiny and full of characters that, no matter how awfully they act, you can't really stay mad at because they're so pretty and, anyway, it's a CW-show so what the hell do you expect? Besides, if you don't like where the show is going, you can just wait one week and it, along with all the characters, will have done a complete 180! Personally I find myself always just waiting for the coin to land Chuck-side up, as the sucker I am for epic love and star-crossed lovers. Besides, it's that time of the season where I hate Dan Humphrey again, and Louis is just ... yuck, and someone has to keep Queen Blair happy.
Ugh, my neck. Pretty sure no one's reading through all this rambling so I won't bother trying to wrap it up. I'll just end abruptly, like so.
Lets start with TWD. I've been craving zombies lately (that always sounds so wrong), playing some L4D again and stuff, so I thought I'd finally catch up with the new episodes, post-Barnpocalypse. Actually the spoiler about Dale dying was pretty instrumental in drawing me back too - it's bout damn time they start killing some people off! (She said, the sentence after mentioning The Barn. *cough*) Actually it's a bit of a shame it was Dale, since he was only like the 5th most annoying person on the show, but I won't look a gift-zombie in the mouth. For one thing, their mouths are GROSS.
And this does mean no more hinting at a possible Dale/Andrea pairing which was appearantly a thing in the comic books and has been haunting me throughout the show because WORLD OF NO to that, thankyouverymuch. Now I just need for Andrea to die herself, along with Shane and Lori and Carl. That's right, I said Carl, because WHAT! What a brat! Actually more than just a brat, he's turning into quite the creepy little psychopath. Hazard of hanging out with Shane, I guess - first Andrea and now Carl, he's like his own little epidemic infecting everyone with douchebaggery.
BTW, it was so fun to see Lori and Andrea arguing, I kept cheering for both of them to lose. Valid points all around - congratulations, you both suck! As do the writers, because boy they are not even pretending anymore are they? Is there a single female on staff with this show? Because I never usually even notice sexism on TV (having grown up with sitcoms and westerns), but I'm like 5 seconds away from starting my own drinking game where you have to go to the kitchen and clean a glass every time someone on this show mentions how it's women's role to cook and clean and how they should leave the killing and the decision-making to the big strong menfolk. It's ridiculous!
Still, there is something oddly brilliant and original about a show where you root for people to die, rather than to succeed/survive. It's like Survivor, or the opposite of Survivor, I'm not sure. But, along with Harper's Island and American Horror Story, I'm starting to wonder if maybe ... it's actually a trend? Or maybe the continuation of one, because maybe this is the next logical step to all those romantic vampires and werewolves? Stories where the "heroes", rather than rewarded with a super-hot, super-strong, never-dying boyfriend, get what they'd get in reality if they're stupid enough to gullibly trust monsters: good and killed? As much of a fan I am of TVD (and used to be of TB), maybe that's where this trend should go.
But yeah, once you've had enough of gloominess, gore and characters you want to see eaten alive, where better to turn than Gossip Girl? It is the exact opposite of TWD - glittery, shiny and full of characters that, no matter how awfully they act, you can't really stay mad at because they're so pretty and, anyway, it's a CW-show so what the hell do you expect? Besides, if you don't like where the show is going, you can just wait one week and it, along with all the characters, will have done a complete 180! Personally I find myself always just waiting for the coin to land Chuck-side up, as the sucker I am for epic love and star-crossed lovers. Besides, it's that time of the season where I hate Dan Humphrey again, and Louis is just ... yuck, and someone has to keep Queen Blair happy.
Ugh, my neck. Pretty sure no one's reading through all this rambling so I won't bother trying to wrap it up. I'll just end abruptly, like so.