Yeahhhh... I think I would have been happy to see the show return in the fall. At the same time, that would really only be three or four months, and I know it's going to take them a while to put the second season together. More selfishly... I know that I don't do well in the late fall and winter. My energy bottoms out at some point, due to seasonal depression. I've got a much better chance of seeing a season of recaps all the way through if the show comes back in the spring. (As much as I loved doing this, I have been physically exhausted for the last two, maybe three weeks, and I couldn't figure out why until I realized it was probably writing 8000 words every weekend and then us having 500-600 comment discussions. If I had not loved the hell out of this show, I easily could have gone into one of my "omg no more, I can't do this" spirals.) I said I'd recap the NBC Dracula show, but I'm now thinking I'll just give the first episode a shot and take it on a trial basis, because I may not be able to see it all the way through to the end
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Well, I might find some other show(s) to watch and do open Lostnesday-style commenting posts just so we have a reason to hang out. I was kind of interested in Under the Dome but haven't watched the first episode yet. I'd like it to be something just starting, though, not something we'd have to catch up an entire season (or more) on. The thing is, I think I find the commenting discussions as exhausting if not more so than writing the recaps themselves. Like, they don't feel tiring at the time and I obviously enjoy them, but I feel way more tired by Tuesday/Wednesday, after the discussions, than I do on Sunday right after finishing the recap itself. It may just be an introvert thing, where interacting with people is good and necessary (and has really helped me feel better about my writing generally, while also adding a lot to the recaps), but you give away energy doing it rather than gain energy.
Definitely take care of yourself, but I'm also not confident in TV's general ability to deliver 2 cracktastic but sterling quality recap-worthy shows in one year. I do hope you give the Big D a shot, but we will completely understand if you have to shore up reserves for Hannibal 2: Cannibaby Boogaloo.
It's an interesting dichotomy, that one can like a show, but it has to have meat (heh) to analyze it the way you do. TV hate recaps, even shallow love recaps, don't really work in the long term, as evidenced by the Once Upon A Time ones on io9, for instance. Those have moments of love, but are laced with too much contempt to be really enjoyable. Granted, the show has some major issues, but having someone bag on it each week gets tiresome. Much better to make it a labor of love, as these have been, and drop it when it stops being good.
Yeah. I also have no problem delivering shorter, simpler recaps if necessary, if there's not as much to work with. I mean, it is Daniel Knauf running the show, and I'm a huge Dracula buff, but there may not be, like, "go spot-research all these culinary terms and pieces of music" things in the background. And I've already got a pretty big background in Victoriana, whereas I didn't in either of those topics. And the recaps may be more based on humor than deep thoughts--which is really what the Lost and True Blood recaps were more like.
I think in this case, Hannibal is enough of a priority for me--and at a better time of the year--that I'd be willing to drop Dracula, or just have a Lostnesday-style open commenting post, or even meet it halfway and do more of the list-based type discussion I do for movies, and not feel bad about that. My goal was to see Hannibal all the way through, and I did, but that doesn't have to be my goal for Dracula.
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It's an interesting dichotomy, that one can like a show, but it has to have meat (heh) to analyze it the way you do. TV hate recaps, even shallow love recaps, don't really work in the long term, as evidenced by the Once Upon A Time ones on io9, for instance. Those have moments of love, but are laced with too much contempt to be really enjoyable. Granted, the show has some major issues, but having someone bag on it each week gets tiresome. Much better to make it a labor of love, as these have been, and drop it when it stops being good.
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I think in this case, Hannibal is enough of a priority for me--and at a better time of the year--that I'd be willing to drop Dracula, or just have a Lostnesday-style open commenting post, or even meet it halfway and do more of the list-based type discussion I do for movies, and not feel bad about that. My goal was to see Hannibal all the way through, and I did, but that doesn't have to be my goal for Dracula.
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