why we fight

[jlh]

Look, I know most of you guys feel this show is mostly full of fail after fail after fail and can't understand why anyone would ever watch it. But you know, so is Supernatural, and I don't hear a lot of people ragging too awfully much on the right of folks to watch two brothers drive around in an Impala chasing ghosts

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[jlh]

You're so right about the fandom stuff, though I am more frustrated by the larger media blogger stuff. At this point I'm used to how fandom can be narrow, but I don't see why The Awl and Gawker and the AV Club and half the critics on my tumblr all talk about the same shows-mostly, whatever is on the Emmy list and is deemed "good" (Mad Men) plus whatever is ridiculously dramatic in a specifically kitchy way (Real Housewives, The Hills, Jersey Shore). But the middle of the road TV that's actually popular is shunned. The only places I see talk about those kinds of shows are ew.com and the NPR Monkey See blog, which is why I ♥ them.

I mean, in a way this is all Gawker-led hipster bullshit, but I wish that didn't have such an impact on what people think they should be watching, both as "good TV" and as "guilty pleasure."

As for Taylor, man, that whole "why little monsters hate taylor swift" article was so horrible, so full of bullshit thinking and connections that aren't there, where Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert = all things awesome and Taylor Swift and Kris Allen = the most recent Bush administration. It's absurd; sometimes people just like music for actual musical reasons, and not identity politics reasons. I know, crazy!