bsg finale, or what i learned at the rodeo

[jlh]

For a lot of reasons, I made the decision to make myself watch this show. There were many points at which I didn't enjoy it, but I pressed on. I've just watched the finale, and that didn't change my opinion. So the biggest thing I learned is that I'm never going to do that again; no matter who is doing the recommending, if it doesn't seem like

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[jlh]

Yeah, I mean, I take a portion of blame on myself for buying into a series of assertions that got me to this place, and I'm annoyed that I did that? But I've definitely learned, again, that I do not like dark things, and that was the biggest part that put me off the show, the unrelenting bleakness, which people who liked it, liked.

There must be a happy medium between chafing against external definitions of who you are-all that being a good fangirl stuff-and throwing off the label entirely. It's like this thing on f!s about the SciFi->SyFy thing. I find that geeks just identify so closely with what they're watching/reading/etc that to say you don't like it is like insulting them directly, and yet they have no problems insulting things that they think stand outside of the "good" geek things, like romance fiction, or anything mainstream or "mundane". Just because I wasn't playing table top RP games in high school doesn't mean I was that snobby cheerleader-and even if I was, I'm obviously not that now.

Just another way I find the geek persecution complex to be frustrating! And it isn't so much online as in real life, too!