166: When Shall We Three Fuck Again?

[thefourthvine]

Recently, our household acquired a package of Pepperidge Farms Milano Cookies. Best Beloved read the package while I was eating the cookies (we have a fabulous division of labor in our household), and then sat bolt upright, totally riveted, and read me the following line of package text:

The perfect balance of two exquisite cookies embracing a

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[miss_porcupine]

But it's joyous fun to read other people's reactions to fine masterworks such as Boa vs. Python and Family Album, even if - no, who am I kidding? Especially because - those reactions consist of capslocked flailings about giant plastic snakes and the tragedy of growing up gay in a Danielle Steel movie.) But, even though I love the back catalog effect (especially with Canadian actors, who apparently have to appear in a movie or TV show every 15 days or else the Canadian government will shoot their moms, and sometimes, when you have to act to save your mom, you make artistic compromises), I've never gotten all that far into the six degrees fandoms.

... Yes to both parts. I've never gotten into Six Degrees business (I'm not one of those people who can sit through Awesomely Stupid Movie just because Awesomely Hot Actor is in it), but the Back Catalog Effect (we can capitalize it, right?) is fantastic. Especially when you get whole essays on how nuanced the performances are and how you can totally see how Current Fandom Character developed through the forty (-five thousand, if they're Canadian) roles they've had in the past. (Or, you know, in the case of Joe Flanigan, it's the same character in different clothes and you just follow the evolution of The Hair.) And it always comes with picspam. Which means that you get the best part of the crappy movies without having to sit through the crappy movies.

I never did the role-playing thing, but my roommates did and I loved them for it. Not for the bizarre arguments leaking out from behind closed doors at two in the morning, but instead for the fact that they always had funny dice that I, the math major who needed to figure out how to rotate the group of vertices of a dodecahedron, could borrow.

Actual relevant comment: I'm glad Yoshino made the rec set. It's a fun take on the three characters -- they're grown ups, they know what they want (okay, so only two of them will admit it), and it's all-around good stuff.

[thefourthvine]

My favorite part of the Back Catalog Effect is the stunned posts when someone finds a movie that is so bad she cannot even believe it. When Boa vs. Python was making the rounds a while back, there were a few posts that were absolutely incoherent with confusion, because apparently watching that movie is kind of like ingesting a very large dose of one of your more aggressive hallucinogens. People would go off to watch it totally normal fans, and they'd come back broken women mumbling vaguely about snakes and t-shirts and oral sex. I loved it. (Once I was sure the affected fans would pull through, I mean.)

And it always comes with picspam.

*nods*

crimsonclad's Family Album picspam was MADE OF AWESOME. And it had the added advantage that I got the fun of mocking the movie without having to watch four hours of, um, you know. Danielle Steel's plotting and some seriously alarming costuming choices. (Schoolmarm at the Oscars. The Red Turtleneck of Gay and - am I just making this up, or was the RToG paired with a sparkly black vest? Oh, god. I'm going to have to go look at the picspam again.)

It's a fun take on the three characters -- they're grown ups, they know what they want (okay, so only two of them will admit it), and it's all-around good stuff.

*nods*

Yes, precisely. They're grown-ups! At least two of them! And the other one is, you know, also grown up, and he's probably gotten over at least a few of his hangups by now. I hope.