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[crickets]

→ Seeker fandom is bleeding all over my flist. Sorry guys. That totally sucks. I never got a chance to watch season two but I dug the show during season one. I know how you must feel. *hugs* So many great shows with awesome female characters have ended over the past couple of TV seasons. I heard that Damages got canceled too. Suck doesn't begin to

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[gigglemonster]

I would like to give a hearty AMEN to everything in this post.
Well, except for the Pacific cuz I haven't watched it yet. But I definitely plan to now! :)

[crickets]

You might like The Pacific, I'm not sure. You should give it a go if you really think you'd like it.

[ozmissage]

I'm saving up Treme too. I figure I'll wait until Lost is over and my brain's all mine again so I can give it the attention I'm sure it'll deserve.

You're right, television is not being kind to shows with strong female characters right now. I never watched Seeker, but I'm still mourning Ugly Betty so I can feel your flist's pain. United States of Tara has some wonderful albeit dysfunctional female characters, so that's usually where I get my awesome ladies fix these days.

I hate when I have to join a comm just to see the icons. I usually refuse unless I really love the preview. The practice seems a bit silly to me.

[crickets]

Hahaha, I watch so much TV as it is I don't think a couple more will kill me. Plus like half of them are ending/have ended over the last year. *sobs*

Yeah I am completely bummed about Betty in a way I can't really describe. Because my parents were avid watchers I've watched on and off for all four years but I didn't really become a regular viewer until last season for some reason, at which point I re-watched all three seasons. Anyway, I feel the thing that strikes me about Betty the show, Betty the character, and what she stands for, is that she is, and the show was, just remarkable. Simply the diversity represented, the fact that most of the major characters were female or gay, etc. But that's just the tip of the iceberg. For a show that was really just a bunch of quirk, I think it was something important. The fact that existed was important. And now it's gone.

Oh, *sniffle*

[slybrunette]

YOU SHOULD MAKE ICONS. OMG I WOULD DIE. (seriously, I'm hard up for them. fix it.)

I hate when people flock their art. I don't see a reason for it. It's like, why, so you can see just how many people care enough to read? Does it really matter that much? I don't get it at all.

Ditto on the one entry. The frak?

[crickets]

Hahaha, I swear as soon as I have time I am going hunting for screencaps!

I just DO NOT KNOW.

*hands*

[slybrunette]

Screencaps can be d/l-ed here. Just, you know, a gentle push.

[crickets]

Ah, I'm familiar with those.

I'm a few minutes from starting ep 5. Hey I could conceivably stay up through ep 7 tonight if I wanted... lol

[meresy]

The Pacific is something else. I'm all the way up to the current ep, and it only gets better (and harrowing, but that's a given.)

Friends-locked art comms don't get my traffic, simple as that. Maybe, maybe they would if I'd seen something of theirs that was truly rock-awesome and I needed more, but nothing's overcome my unwillingness yet! I won't friend randos just of icons or something, either -- I track the public stuff or I move along.

Single-entry displays are something I don't often come across, but I don't think it bugs? I tend to search by tag or go entry-by-entry anyway...

[crickets]

I am really loving it as it goes along. I think I'll watch the 5th ep tonight before bed.

I really really don't like to join them. And half the time I do it's out of desperation and then I almost immediately leave again. Unless it's a comm with a LOT of makers then maybe I will stay because it's not just ONE person's vanity that I'm stroking. ICK. The whole thing is just ICK.

Well I guess it bugs especially if I've seen a particular icon credited to them and I'm trying to find the entry because I want to tell them it's great OR because I want to see what other icons were in that particular batch. It would be nice to be able to click on a show's tag, and then scroll through a page and find things more easily -- or based on previews "guess" which entry it is that I'm looking for. But even if I'm just trying to get a sense of an artist's work, it's limiting in that sense too. IDK, it does bug me, but lots of things bug me.

[viridian]

I haaaaaaaaaaate having to join friends-only groups, but, having made icons, I don't really understand being too worried if people steal/don't credit them as long as they're not hotlinking. And people who join can steal/hotlink as easily as anyone - no way is anyone going to be able to scour their whole member list for the culprit once it reaches a certain # of members. IDK, it just seems pointless to me. I'll join, but half the time I leave again once I've snagged the icons I came for.

And I HATE HATE HATE the comms that display only one entry per page.

[crickets]

Yeah it doesn't really seem like that much of a deterrent anyway from the people who really do want to steal. Which I guess I can understand it as a reactionary measure, but it just seems like a trend that a lot of people have bought into rather than an occasional measure for protection.

THANK GOD I am not the only one that is bothered by this.

I think more people should post about their discontent with these two trends -- maybe they will stop doing it!