The M(erlin) Tyler Moore Show
Thanks to the good offices of a flister, I have all of the episodes of Merlin. I didn't watch the pilot until after watching all of Mad Men S2, also supplied by the same generous person, and it has been some weeks since I watched any Merlin. I've tentatively scheduled tonight for making some progress, although then again I could do my taxes.
dkompare's comment in cryptoxin's LJ, asking what would constitute one's optimum fannish show, made me think about my...lack of enthusiasm...for Merlin. Naturally, for a show of which I have watched only 7% of the episodes and that without undue attachment, I am not familiar with the vidliography of the show, so I am curious whether anyone has made a vid to the theme song of the Mary Tyler Moore show:
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day
And certainly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well, it's you girl, and you should know it.
With each glance and every little movement, you show it
Love is all around,
No need to fake it.
You're gonna make it after all!
Merlin could toss his tam o'shanter into the air and it could just, y'know, hang there.
No doubt something could also be done intercutting Merlin's arrival at Camelot with Fraser's arrival, equally on shank's pony, at the equally fictional court of Chicago.
And, as Lou Grant snarled, "You've got spunk! I hate spunk!" and "Merlin" is romcom. I hate romcom. I do not hate it any less when it involves two men, or two women (I truly did not like "Imagine Me and You" f'rex). Nor am I big on whimsy, and I don't go a ton on shows where it is possible to have a conversation with a dead person (accurately predicting my...lack of enthusiasm*...for dueSouth and The Dresden Files.
*If fandom has taught me anything--big if!--it is that there are elements in being fannish about something separate and apart from a belief in the comparative quality of that media property. But I do not wish to imply that merely because I hate something with the passion of 10,000 fiery suns that I believe that its fans are objectively disordered.
dkompare's comment in cryptoxin's LJ, asking what would constitute one's optimum fannish show, made me think about my...lack of enthusiasm...for Merlin. Naturally, for a show of which I have watched only 7% of the episodes and that without undue attachment, I am not familiar with the vidliography of the show, so I am curious whether anyone has made a vid to the theme song of the Mary Tyler Moore show:
Who can turn the world on with her smile?
Who can take a nothing day
And certainly make it all seem worthwhile?
Well, it's you girl, and you should know it.
With each glance and every little movement, you show it
Love is all around,
No need to fake it.
You're gonna make it after all!
Merlin could toss his tam o'shanter into the air and it could just, y'know, hang there.
No doubt something could also be done intercutting Merlin's arrival at Camelot with Fraser's arrival, equally on shank's pony, at the equally fictional court of Chicago.
And, as Lou Grant snarled, "You've got spunk! I hate spunk!" and "Merlin" is romcom. I hate romcom. I do not hate it any less when it involves two men, or two women (I truly did not like "Imagine Me and You" f'rex). Nor am I big on whimsy, and I don't go a ton on shows where it is possible to have a conversation with a dead person (accurately predicting my...lack of enthusiasm*...for dueSouth and The Dresden Files.
*If fandom has taught me anything--big if!--it is that there are elements in being fannish about something separate and apart from a belief in the comparative quality of that media property. But I do not wish to imply that merely because I hate something with the passion of 10,000 fiery suns that I believe that its fans are objectively disordered.