Things I am enjoying right now

[trinityvixen]

Happy Halloween every one! I'm having a goodish sort of day. I've received lots of compliments on my violently orange and black-striped tights, so I feel pretty good. I saw a little boy dressed as Indiana Jones cracking his fake whip and I melted a little. (Stupid fucking ovaries! Die!) So I hope all are enjoying their day before the Day of the

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[viridian]

I agree that Dexter is being sort of retread-y, but I like it much better than last season. Maybe because Jimmy Smits' character is better than Lila turned out to be. Maybe because the Rita stuff has won me over more than I wanted it to. Maybe because Deb is getting a decent plotline for once that has nothing to do with her brother. Whatever the reason, I'm enjoying it.

[trinityvixen]

Deb is fucking adorable. I don't know what's up with her she's up/she's down thing with Quinn, or what his game is, but she's still awesome at least.

Jimmy Smits is way better than Lila, but she was there first, so this all feels re-hashed, which is a shame. Also, I thought after last season Dexter was going his own way, no longer beholden to Harry or the code. Apparently not. I thought maybe killing an innocent dude would make him interested in branching out more. Still no, even though that's not very realistic. I also want to know how f'ed up Jimmy Smits is really that he can set Dex out to kill and be happy about it. Harry friggin' trained Dexter to kill, and it still repulsed him enough to make him down pills. We gotta get to that.

[fairest]

Damn. I was hoping you'd forgotten about Saw V. :(

Meanwhile, yeah, I'm really surprised at Smallville this season. I think it's so appealing at the moment because he's in prime Superman stage--working at the Planet, quasi-flirting with Lois, one step away from the costume, with sightings starting to happen. It's at Lois and Clark stage (or a little past), and man, did I ever love me some Lois and Clark. Bizarre frog-eating arcs aside.

Although I'm sure my rampant attraction to men who've played Superman (less George Reeves--sorry, George!) is helping, now that Clark is in a suit and officially Growned-Up. Rrrwrr.

[trinityvixen]

I think that's a major part of why I'm liking it. It's also a bit like early seasons--we're seeing how he becomes Superman. We got the background and now we're in transition. But he can't become Superman, and they still want to make more show, so it could just end up floundering forever. I hope not, but it's a possibility.

And yes, it's very Lois and Clark, now that Lois is off to find out who the super hero is. And yes, Clark being a dead looker in a suit helps. :)

And yes some more: Saw V!!!

[trinityvixen]

You realize that slashers are less than 1% of any show's audience, right?

Mea culpa here: the most I spend in SPN fandom is reading Fandom Secrets posts. Meaning that 99% of what I'm getting the everlong back-and-forth over slashers and the rest. (I being in that rest.)

Also, I object to this view that a slasher can't see the show through multiple lenses. It deserves better than to have wincesters watching it? Fuck you too!Absolutely fuck me, too. I'm laughing that you thought this would sound meaner than it should (so mean as to delete the post), seeing as I thought I was equally harsh. Basically, as I said, I give the slashers I know personally far more credit than I do slashers generally because slashers tend to annoy the fuck out of me (and I like my friends so they get leeway general slashers do not). Slashers take away exactly what I enjoy about fictional relationships between same-sex characters and trivialize in so doing the same-sex romance advances as far as I'm concerned because they make it seem like they're breaking

[ivy03]

The problem here is that you are starting the old argument of [insert group here] are ruining fandom and my experience of the show! But this is complete bull, really. What you're complaining about is that people in a community are discussing the show in a way you don't like, to which the proper response always is don't engage. And if no one is discussing the show the way you'd like to (or writing the fic you want), the answer is, always, then start discussing the show (or writing the fic) the way you want and hopefully similarly minded people will gravitate to you. The answer is never to try to shut up the other group.

What you are also saying is that you have a uniquely privileged and "right" reading of the show that no one else has, to which I say absolutely BULL. SHIT. A number 1 - you are assuming a consensus reading from a group that not only doesn't have a consensus reading but that you are not a part of, so you wouldn't know if they did. B number 2 - you are assuming that there is a right reading of the show and you're the

[ivy03]

This is one of the reasons I like Boston Legal so much. (I've been cogitating on a post about it for a while, but haven't written it yet.) In that, Alan Shore and Denny Crane are clearly soulmates (they call each other that). Their friendship comes with most of the trappings of a romance, including jealousy over attention paid to other men. The show has made it absolutely, completely, undeniably clear that they are lifemates and that they love each other (both of which they've said on the show). The show has also made absolutely clear that they don't have sex and don't find each other sexually attractive at all. This relationship is often shown as in some way tragic or incomplete. So my question is, is it a tragedy because they are soulmates but, because they are both straight, are doomed to spend their entire lives pursuing meaningless sexual flings because they could never give to a woman what they have with each other (there's even an episode where Crane's paramour forces him to choose between her and Alan and Crane chooses Alan),

[wellgull]

Daria -- I sure hope it's one of those "timeless observations about life" cases rather than continued arrested development, because heck, I didn't even watch the whole thing until I was out of college, and darned if it didn't speak to me then. Although a fair amount of that is the nostalgia factor.

But I think that at least part of the timelessness has to do with its continued relevance to our generation, even as we age and develop; the past remains a part of you, and the show was very formative for a lot of the humor and attitude styles that we've carried into today, so that even if it won't be relevant for new watchers, it could remain relevant for us, even as we mature and age. Call it a culturally-defining moment or something that is a unique identifier of our particular cultural place...?

Or maybe I just continue to heart persistently-pervasive sarcasm.

[trinityvixen]

Nostalgia is definitely a key player in watching Daria, although I'm discovering whole seasons I seem to have never seen. I watched almost all of the first two seasons to the point of almost having them memorized, and I saw some of the end stuff, but I missed a lot in between. It will be nice to have a completed experience.

The sarcasm definitely helps, as does the intelligence. Daria could be a hipster template--she shuns your pop culture and enjoys it only ironically!--but she isn't. She is a constant conqueror of all bullshit, even bullshit that falls along her interests (like the episode where she takes down the smarter-than-thou kids at a private school, kids who, like she, enjoy learning and take pride in their smarts). It's really about everyone being full of themselves and not being able to see their defects because they're too busy trying to fix defects in others. Daria, by not trying to fix anybody, escapes her own critical standards most of the time by default. Gotta love that.