random confessions
Due to recently watching the end of BSG and the pressing need to resolve my understanding of the whole damn thing as a coherent story and rewatching it all because I clearly don't have enough tv-related angst in my life (my sit-and-wait policy with SPN's quite understandable recent wobbles being my only way to deal with it), I've been splashing
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- If I like a show, I'd rather it go on until it's past its prime, rather than have it die while it's still good. I don't want to be left wanting more. I'd rather think - Hey the writers really ran out of ideas, didn't they? It's so much easier to let go of something when it's past being good. And even though I can never disregard canon, a crappy later season doesn't diminish my love for an earlier good season.
- Quirky characters annoy me. They aren't cute or funny, they're usually just irritating.
- I must be cold and bitter, because I hate sentimentality. So for instance, I can never really get in to a show like How I Met Your Mother because it mixes its comedy with so much syrupy-ness that it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
- Agreed on teh sex. Takes me right out of the story.
- I have a weird relationship with the show Castle, in that my hatred of it is all out of proportion to the actual quality of it. So while I think it's okay for what it is, and it's not like I expect it to be better, it just provokes a visceral hatred in me. I can't have it on for more than a minute before I feel my blood pressure going up. I feel the same way about Bones. And yet ... I kind of wish there were a show with Fillion and Boreanaz. Yes, I'm crazy.
*goes back to finish writing terrible not-meta*
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If I like a show, I'd rather it go on until it's past its prime, rather than have it die while it's still good.
Ooh, interesting. I think a crappy later season sours my viewing experience of the earlier beloved stuff, just because I know where things are going to end up. :/ Certainly that's what happened with Buffy and Angel, although growing up and maturing tastes probably had a lot to do with that too.
Quirky characters annoy me. They aren't cute or funny, they're usually just irritating.
Preach! :) (Any specific ones you're thinking of?)
Sentimentality - ugh. Turns me right off. I've never watched How I Met Your Mother, but I'm even less likely to now. Cheesiness can be the same, although if it's done knowingly and well (Leverage usually walks that line), I can enjoy it quite a lot. It's all in the execution. But syrup? No thanks, I'm sweet enough....
my hatred of it is all out of proportion to the actual quality of it.
Heh. I tried watching it, but couldn't get past the first episode. Something about the lead chick, although (another confession) I don't care much for Nathan Fillion, either. I mean, I liked the character Mal fine, but I don't make any effort to watch something just because Fillion is on it. And I am totally with you on Bones. Again, female lead. I'm slightly more inclined to watch a show with Boreanaz, but if there was a show with both of them, I would definitely give it the time of day! Because I'm shallow and contradictory that way. I believe the technical term is "fangirl". :D
I am looking forward to this meta. No judging it until I say. :p
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I watched the first season of Battlestar Galactica, but I gave up because I wasn't that interested in the characters, and like most sci-fi, but especially post-apocalyptic sci-fi, I found it a bit preachy. Still, Kara/Lee almost kept me watching.
"Any specific ones you're thinking of?"
Lorelai Gilmore. But really every single character on that show. I only watched it occasionally, but I really hated her. Oh who am I kidding, I hated them all. And all that quirk always struck me as the writers just being in love with their own cleverness. See how clever we are! Look at how quirky everyone is! Aren't they just fun and charming? Uh, no.
I guess that's another thing I could confess. I sometimes watch shows I hate. Maybe I like to be angry? Getting angry about something frivolous is cathartic without being exhausting.
Cheese is fine, whether on purpose or not, and it can be quite funny. But trying to tug at my heartstrings is just ... yeah don't.
"I am looking forward to this meta. No judging it until I say."
It's a confession - I suck at writing meta.
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And Lorelai. I liked it to begin with, but it did go that direction fast. One of the things I loved about Luke was his (apparent) ability to call her on this crap. I know this is a shallow thing to say, too, but the older the actress looked, the more you just wanted her to GROW THE HELL UP ALREADY.
Aren't they just fun and charming? Uh, no.
Heh. I ❤ you and your snark.
I sometimes watch shows I hate.
Ah, but hate is not indifference. I mean, I have a pretty strong hate-on for LOST in the general sense - I can harangue LOST fans up one side and down the other - but in the specifics, it bores the crap out of me. 24 is similar. Bones, I am indifferent to on a general level but kind of hate on the specific, so when I catch it, I watch it, because ... hate. But I want to REMIND myself of the hate, or something. Plus, I don't think I'd hate it in the specific if there weren't also stuff I really quite liked about it, that I wish they could have gotten right. I don't know, that's my attempt at explaining my incarnation of that compulsion, anyway.
But trying to tug at my heartstrings is just ... yeah don't.
See above, re: you and your snark. :)
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Have I told you lately that I love you?
"I have a pretty strong hate-on for LOST in the general sense"
I want to hear more about this please. A nice rant perhaps, if you feel like it. Because, yes, Lost sucks.
I finished my meta! Yay! *drowns self in booze to celebrate*
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And if I get in the right mindset to rant, I will, although there'd probably have to be something to tip it off - and since it's no longer airing, I don't have people trying to convince me how AMAZING it is, so I haven't felt the need to really vent about that for a while. :D
Meta? Can haz? *puppeh eyes*
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I posted it Sunday, but because I was working on it in lj, I ended up posting it date-out-of-order, so it didn't show up on your friends page. I should have been more specific - I'm finished & it's posted. Maybe I was subconsciously afraid to point you directly at it. But anyway, it's up. ;p
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