BEDA 8: Television Takeover
In trying to figure out what I was going to write about this evening (I had a few ideas bouncing around all day), I decided that I needed to catch up on my Monday night TV...yes, I usually watch Monday night on Wednesday night...and Thursday on Monday. It's what happens when you don't have cable and rely on the internet for your favorite shows.
This was a bad idea.
Most of the ideas I was thinking about prior to this experience have since left my brain and now all I can think about are characters that I am entirely too invested in. It's probably not healthy.
Let me start this by saying that it takes a lot to get me truly invested in a television show. I have to start at ground zero and work though everything and that takes time. However, since I left college and have been in 'the real world', I've had a lot of this free time. A few months ago, I remembered that I really liked House whenever I happened to catch it on TV last year...and then proceeded to watch every single episode up until the present time. The problem that I have now, is I only get one episode a week and sometimes that drives me crazy. I really really really really really like House. I like it because it's witty and while you know that every episode they're going to have some ridiculous disease or circumstance and they're going to go through the same process of wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, OMG ALMOST DEAD, correct!...I still can't look away and wonder if this might be the one that doesn't make it. (I have an intense belief that at some point, House needs to be wrong. A patient needs to die.)
However, I noticed (or rather, re-noticed) this week how much the show has become so much more about the characters. And maybe it's just because now I'm so emotionally invested in them, and the writers/producers know that and they've let us see more of the people instead of the medicine. I'm not going to go into detail about this week's episode, but just say that while I'm terribly sad about what happened with the staff....I'm so glad for the way that the production team handled the situation they were in. It was beautiful in message and cinematography.
...and then there's 24.
I just ran through my 'OMG I JUST CAUGHT UP I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF' crazyness with Adam, who I can always go to for these bursts seeing as we are both thoroughly invested in Jack Bauer and his crew.
So, it's mostly out of my system.
But...I just can't get enough of this show.
Maybe it's my Keifer Sutherland thing (I got hooked on him back when Disney's The Three Musketeers came out in theatres and I was like...12?).
Maybe it's my leftover desire to want to be in the FBI or something similiar.
I'm not really sure.
I am sure that everytime I want to watch them, my cat knows it and will jump up on my desk and try to hang out infront of my computer.
And when I go to push her away, she just looks at me like "Really? Really, you're watching this crap again. Seriously, what the hell are you doing? Geez...hey! Hey! Don't...don't push me! HEY! Ught...fine. FINE. I'm getting down! See me getting down!"
I swear, if my cat could talk she'd just make fun of me all day.
This was a bad idea.
Most of the ideas I was thinking about prior to this experience have since left my brain and now all I can think about are characters that I am entirely too invested in. It's probably not healthy.
Let me start this by saying that it takes a lot to get me truly invested in a television show. I have to start at ground zero and work though everything and that takes time. However, since I left college and have been in 'the real world', I've had a lot of this free time. A few months ago, I remembered that I really liked House whenever I happened to catch it on TV last year...and then proceeded to watch every single episode up until the present time. The problem that I have now, is I only get one episode a week and sometimes that drives me crazy. I really really really really really like House. I like it because it's witty and while you know that every episode they're going to have some ridiculous disease or circumstance and they're going to go through the same process of wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, OMG ALMOST DEAD, correct!...I still can't look away and wonder if this might be the one that doesn't make it. (I have an intense belief that at some point, House needs to be wrong. A patient needs to die.)
However, I noticed (or rather, re-noticed) this week how much the show has become so much more about the characters. And maybe it's just because now I'm so emotionally invested in them, and the writers/producers know that and they've let us see more of the people instead of the medicine. I'm not going to go into detail about this week's episode, but just say that while I'm terribly sad about what happened with the staff....I'm so glad for the way that the production team handled the situation they were in. It was beautiful in message and cinematography.
...and then there's 24.
I just ran through my 'OMG I JUST CAUGHT UP I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF' crazyness with Adam, who I can always go to for these bursts seeing as we are both thoroughly invested in Jack Bauer and his crew.
So, it's mostly out of my system.
But...I just can't get enough of this show.
Maybe it's my Keifer Sutherland thing (I got hooked on him back when Disney's The Three Musketeers came out in theatres and I was like...12?).
Maybe it's my leftover desire to want to be in the FBI or something similiar.
I'm not really sure.
I am sure that everytime I want to watch them, my cat knows it and will jump up on my desk and try to hang out infront of my computer.
And when I go to push her away, she just looks at me like "Really? Really, you're watching this crap again. Seriously, what the hell are you doing? Geez...hey! Hey! Don't...don't push me! HEY! Ught...fine. FINE. I'm getting down! See me getting down!"
I swear, if my cat could talk she'd just make fun of me all day.