Things I have been watching: Veronica Mars

[tavella]

tersa and I have just finished up season 1 of VM on our movie night. I skipped this show the first time around because my friendslist* was "Logan Logan Logan/Veronica", and if there is any single character trope I hate in modern television, it's the Bad Boy Asshole you should feel Sorry for because of his Inner Wounds. Jess sent me fleeing from

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[loligo]

Here, let me help Mely pimp Supernatural with a handy link to all her SPN posts. Meta galore!

(Now aren't you sorry you brought it up? ;-D )

[tavella]

Yeah, Mely was the one plot one I remember seeing, and does make me open to the possibility of revising my opinion. I'm still not feeling the intense urge to check it out, because the horror/religion genre is very not me, but if Mely likes it, it probably isn't crap.

[tavella]

...actually, reading her posts, I'm confirmed in my suspicion that it'd annoy me, even if it's not total crap. Weak female characters, appropriation and whitifying of bits from other cultures, and portrayal of the Real America as all white.

[cyranocyrano]

Have I never talked about Supernatural on my LJ?
(And if I did, did I talk about how hot Sam and Dean were?)
I don't recall.

[tavella]

It's possible you did and I missed it!

[reikah]

Because the fact that you, personally, haven't seen them cearly means they can't exist.

[herongale]

Come on, Tav makes a very valid point.

SPN fandom is very obviously a shipper's paradise. She did not say that these posts don't exist, just that the signal:noise ratio of plot posts: shipper posts amongst the sample audience that matters most to her-- her FRIENDS-- does not exactly suggest that SPN fans are in it for its intellectual rigor.

[catystorm]

Pff, shallow people. I love Supernatural for the 'figuring out which monster o'the week' angle. It doesn't hurt that Sam and Dean are way easy on the eyes, but I don't think that affects all my guy friends who love the show.

[tavella]

I have nothing against shallowness, I've made a few "Mmm. Aliens bad. Doctor pretty." (tm Mags Halliday) comments on Doctor Who, for example. It's just that to really love a show I need some plot and writing meat and symbolic deliciousness to go with my pretty.

[agrimony]

I /love/ Supernatural. It is a testimony to how pacing can be manipulated to deliver, in a scant hour, as much build up and suspense and atmosphere as one can get from a two or more hour long movie. It has all the classic earmarks that make horror/suspense such a thrill to watch while managing to avoid the overt goriness (not that there isn't blood or gore involved ever, but it's of a necessity minimal due to being prime time network television) that so much of horror relies upon these days

[tavella]

See, this is the sort of post that if I had seen more of early on, I would have been likely to check the show out.