Yeah, okay, I'm VERY obsessed by the Stargate 'verse.
ryuutchi linked to the utterly awesome Your Friends Are Not Watching The Same Show You Are, which makes me go "Hee!" in a big way.
Not really because there is anything new there, but because I really think the alternative title game is a hoot and should become standard in fandom.
For the record: I tend to enjoy "The Witty Banter Show" and I often find myself (but not as often as some) watching the "No, Seriously, Did You Learn Your Gender Studies in the Boys' Lockeroom? Show," but easily 80% of what I watch is the "Fucked-up, Emotionally Constipated, Deeply Damaged, Heartbreaking, Psychologically Fascinating And Improbably Attractive Woobie Hero Show."
I watch that one with four or five casts, actually. There's "The Woobie Hero Show: Don't fuck with the Teaboy!" and "The Woobie Hero Show: Making Incest Look Good," and "The Woobie Hero Show: Daniel Jackson, Marry Me" and "The Woobie Hero Show: Just a Browncoat and his Spaceship," but it's all the same damn show if I'm honest. Because if there's one thing people are good at, it's seeing narratives through the lenses that appeal to us emotionally.
Frankly, I think 90% of the disagreements in fandom would be solved by clarifying what show each person is actually watching.
This show is doing worldbuilding and sense of place very very well- much better than SG1, and in fact than any SF show I can come up with other than the early seasons of BSG. I really really like SF with a very strong sense of place, which "planet of the week" shows basically never achieve- but the city of Atlantis? Well, the city of Atlantis, as SF setting design, ROCKS. I'm just saying.
Oh Rodney. I love you so much. You make me laugh so hard. And it's all in the delivery, too- David Hewlett is doing SUCH a likable, idiosyncratic, appealing job with a character who could just be so very annoying.
I really kind of love the fact that the first we see of Rodney and John being all buddy-buddy is John... throwing Rodney off a balcony. With a huge delighted grin on his face. I really love that A LOT.
I love Carson.
Also, I love Zelenka. Or however you spell it. He's cute.
I do not yet love Aiden Ford, because so far he does not have quite enough personality to love. But he is calm and level-headed and very competent, which is good, because Rodney takes a lot of evening-out, you know? And his first trace of lovableness- begging for John to take him out flying around the planet- is very promising. And he is so very, very, very pretty.
With John, I am suffering a case of elevated expectations. I've absorbed so much through fannish osmosis about HOW AWESOME he is, that there was really no way to live up to it. I find him appealing, so far, but he is one of those characters who grows on me more slowly- he doesn't wear it all out on the surface like Rodney. Hopefully there are hidden depths. I assume so, or he wouldn't be loved so much. I certainly LIKE him quite a lot, and he is indeed also very very pretty, so I think I just need to let him percolate a bit, read some fic written in season one, just wallow in his head for awhile.
Very very soon now I am going to need an icon of Rodney saying something snarky and condescending, and an icon of John being very very pretty.
Since I admitted to mom that what I'm doing really is depression, things have been looking up a tidge. Articulating it helps at least a little. Since Wednesday, I've managed to go to the laundromat, buy healthy food, go to the gym twice, do a tiny bit of writing, and apply to two temp agencies. I know this is basically NOTHING for five whole days for a normal person, and I feel a bit stupid going "I managed to actually shower and dress myself before noon for five straight days! I deserve a cookie!" but when you're depressed that does actually feel like a big achievement, you know? Anyway, looking up, though I still think things will be awkward till after I go back to LA and deal with the last of the breakup/move.
Not really because there is anything new there, but because I really think the alternative title game is a hoot and should become standard in fandom.
For the record: I tend to enjoy "The Witty Banter Show" and I often find myself (but not as often as some) watching the "No, Seriously, Did You Learn Your Gender Studies in the Boys' Lockeroom? Show," but easily 80% of what I watch is the "Fucked-up, Emotionally Constipated, Deeply Damaged, Heartbreaking, Psychologically Fascinating And Improbably Attractive Woobie Hero Show."
I watch that one with four or five casts, actually. There's "The Woobie Hero Show: Don't fuck with the Teaboy!" and "The Woobie Hero Show: Making Incest Look Good," and "The Woobie Hero Show: Daniel Jackson, Marry Me" and "The Woobie Hero Show: Just a Browncoat and his Spaceship," but it's all the same damn show if I'm honest. Because if there's one thing people are good at, it's seeing narratives through the lenses that appeal to us emotionally.
Frankly, I think 90% of the disagreements in fandom would be solved by clarifying what show each person is actually watching.
This show is doing worldbuilding and sense of place very very well- much better than SG1, and in fact than any SF show I can come up with other than the early seasons of BSG. I really really like SF with a very strong sense of place, which "planet of the week" shows basically never achieve- but the city of Atlantis? Well, the city of Atlantis, as SF setting design, ROCKS. I'm just saying.
Oh Rodney. I love you so much. You make me laugh so hard. And it's all in the delivery, too- David Hewlett is doing SUCH a likable, idiosyncratic, appealing job with a character who could just be so very annoying.
I really kind of love the fact that the first we see of Rodney and John being all buddy-buddy is John... throwing Rodney off a balcony. With a huge delighted grin on his face. I really love that A LOT.
I love Carson.
Also, I love Zelenka. Or however you spell it. He's cute.
I do not yet love Aiden Ford, because so far he does not have quite enough personality to love. But he is calm and level-headed and very competent, which is good, because Rodney takes a lot of evening-out, you know? And his first trace of lovableness- begging for John to take him out flying around the planet- is very promising. And he is so very, very, very pretty.
With John, I am suffering a case of elevated expectations. I've absorbed so much through fannish osmosis about HOW AWESOME he is, that there was really no way to live up to it. I find him appealing, so far, but he is one of those characters who grows on me more slowly- he doesn't wear it all out on the surface like Rodney. Hopefully there are hidden depths. I assume so, or he wouldn't be loved so much. I certainly LIKE him quite a lot, and he is indeed also very very pretty, so I think I just need to let him percolate a bit, read some fic written in season one, just wallow in his head for awhile.
Very very soon now I am going to need an icon of Rodney saying something snarky and condescending, and an icon of John being very very pretty.
Since I admitted to mom that what I'm doing really is depression, things have been looking up a tidge. Articulating it helps at least a little. Since Wednesday, I've managed to go to the laundromat, buy healthy food, go to the gym twice, do a tiny bit of writing, and apply to two temp agencies. I know this is basically NOTHING for five whole days for a normal person, and I feel a bit stupid going "I managed to actually shower and dress myself before noon for five straight days! I deserve a cookie!" but when you're depressed that does actually feel like a big achievement, you know? Anyway, looking up, though I still think things will be awkward till after I go back to LA and deal with the last of the breakup/move.