addendum to the Vampire Diaries post
C. IMed me and said: "But Vampire Diaries suck! (Have seen three episodes.)"
To which I said what I can't stress enough: keep watching.
No, I can't guarantee that anyone will like it. But as of yet, every single Vampire Diaries fan I've talked to, no matter how deeply in love, has agreed that the first few episodes are a pile of suck. The exact ( Read more... )
To which I said what I can't stress enough: keep watching.
No, I can't guarantee that anyone will like it. But as of yet, every single Vampire Diaries fan I've talked to, no matter how deeply in love, has agreed that the first few episodes are a pile of suck. The exact ( Read more... )
Okay, so maybe not so much "forgive" as "not care because he provides the entertainment." I'm a bit grumpy about Gina Torres, myself, but it's just the way the show is built - half the awesome will be killed by the other half of the awesome.
I do think the show let him off the hook too easily, though.
Oh boy, yeah. He'd be dead ten times over if there was any justice on that show.
I don't know if this has so much to do with orientation; the show has a very gothic, very grim undercurrent that at least in my experience usually appeals more to women than men.
Yeah, but isn't that related to the whole romantic, Brontë-sisters-ripoff phase fifteen-year-olds are supposed to go through? I mean, as much as TVD isn't remotely Twilight, I do think it relies in part on its audience having some fond memories of stories in that kind of romantic genre. Just like how Scream relies on its audience having fond memories of teen slasher movies, even if in both cases it's a genre we've believed ourselves to have outgrown.
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Yeah, but isn't that related to the whole romantic, Brontë-sisters-ripoff phase fifteen-year-olds are supposed to go through?
In a way, yes, but especially the Bronte sisters (how do you make those dots on the e?) have a lot of elements that are very psychological and dark and concerned with the murkier regions of the psyche - at least I would read them that way, and I think that's ultimately why they are interesting to 15-year-olds. I'm really bad at explaining this, but I suppose it's kind of a tool to figure out the more ambiguous elements of one's sexuality, and I'd figure that goes for all orientations. I don't have any solid info to back this up, unfortunately, it's mostly a somewhat underdeveloped idea derived possibly from reading secondary literature on Victorian women writers. ;)
ust like how Scream relies on its audience having fond memories of teen slasher movies, even if in both cases it's a genre we've believed ourselves to have outgrown.
That explains why I was mostly indifferent to it - it was the first teen slasher movie I watched. I was never an explicit fan of romances, either, the closest I read to that was probably V.C. Andrews, and those are more mystery thrillers with creepy undertones.
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My keyboard has a key for it, so... I think it's a lot more complicated on an English-language keyboard.
I'm really bad at explaining this, but I suppose it's kind of a tool to figure out the more ambiguous elements of one's sexuality, and I'd figure that goes for all orientations.
Possibly. I mean, Sarah Waters takes a page from that book too, so what do I know?
That explains why I was mostly indifferent to it - it was the first teen slasher movie I watched.
My first was Halloween, at which point I'd already been ruined by comedian Jonas Gardell and his parody of the genre: "What should we DO, now that we're in the creepy house that no one has stayed in since the previous owner killed his wife and daughters with an axe? I KNOW! Let's take off our CLOTHES and dance around in our UNDERWEAR!"
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Well, mine's German. I kannn offer plenty of Umlaute! *g*
My first was Halloween, at which point I'd already been ruined by comedian Jonas Gardell and his parody of the genre: "What should we DO, now that we're in the creepy house that no one has stayed in since the previous owner killed his wife and daughters with an axe? I KNOW! Let's take off our CLOTHES and dance around in our UNDERWEAR!"
Bwah.
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I was miffed about Gina Torres, too. And kind of weirded out that all women of African descent seem to be witches. What the hell, show?
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