Who am I even?
You guys, I have been invaded by the body snatchers or something.
Last night adrenalin211 and I watched the first episode of The Walking Dead. (I am totally blaming this on her, no question, because I'm good at taking personal responsibility like that). AND I KIND OF LIKED IT. I don't even know what's happening here. Don't get me wrong -- I was BEYOND creeped/grossed out by the zombies, and the entire show is just fucking scary and creepy and dark and sad as hell. But Andrew Lincoln is insanely attractive (damn the man has beautiful eyes -- I always thought that when I watched him in Love Actually) and . . .
GEEZ I REALLY JUST HAVE SOME BIZARRE NEED TO WATCH/READ/THINK ABOUT EPIC APOCALYPTIC THINGS.
I mean, is it totally just beyond strange that I can't watch comedy to save my life? It really limits one's viewing choices when the stakes have to be life and death and the end of the world. But that is absolutely what I want to watch. I'm on the fence about how much more of the show I should attempt. I know that it's very 24 in terms of the way that no character is safe, and that what I saw last night wasn't anywhere near how bad the gore on that can get (and I did dream about it, but not in a way that made me scared).
ALSO, the show makes brilliant use of silence, which is something I don't often see on TV. Every single time something was supposed to be terrifying, there was no music in the background AT ALL. And for me, that was way scarier than anything a bunch of Psycho style violins could conjure up.
And then I got up this morning and someone on tumblr had made a .gifset of Renee telling Jack how she wasn't going to hold him to his promises and him throwing her against the bookshelf saying LET ME LOVE YOU (okay that was the shipper recap, shut up), and I just wanted to cry because I hadn't even had coffee.
Do any of you have shows you watch against all your better instincts because something about the show just keeps pulling you back in? What guarantees that you won't be able to turn something off?