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rusty_haloVeronica Mars: Did Rob Thomas have a lobotomy sometime between season one and now? I'm just wondering, because that would explain a lot.
I'm not really watching anymore, but there is some part of me that, once it begins caring about a show, really doesn't want to let go. Someone needs to distract me on Tuesday nights so that I don't get tempted to turn on Channel 11 at 9pm. It never turns out well.
The Dick character kind of reminds me of Andrew on BtVS. Andrew covered up Katrina's death and murdered Jonathan, but the actor is funny, so let's forget all that and use him as comic relief. Dick roofied his girlfriend's drink and encouraged his brother to rape Veronica, but he's funny, so let's pretend that wasn't a big deal. It just seems really cheap, and disrespectful to the audience, to ignore your own canon that way. How are we supposed to take anything seriously when the writers are so selective about what matters? (The same way we were supposed to be all horrified at Buffy sleeping with Spike because he had KILLED PEOPLE, but were supposed to be amused at Xander sleeping with Anya, who had actually killed WAY MORE people and was equally unrepentant.)
I don't mind characters being blind/clueless/irrational/hypocritical when it's actually part of their storylines, but when it's just a result of the writers taking shortcuts, it's LAME. I mean... we're really supposed to be that offended about Logan sleeping with someone else when he and Veronica are broken up? Really?
I went to my friend Anne's birthday party on Friday night. It was fun, and good to see everyone, but I kind of felt like an alien. Everyone was either talking about work or relationships. I had nothing to say. I suck at being a girl. (I was reading this article about mothers and daughters bonding over pedicures in the NY Times and just... what are these creatures? Surely they're not from the same planet as me?)
So I was like... hey, who wants to talk about sci-fi fandom? But even then, I don't really have much to say, because I'm not watching any of the current shows. I hear Lost and Heroes and Battlestar Galactica are all entertaining, but I don't really care about watching them. I'll see them on DVD eventually if they last a while and word of mouth remains positive. I did discover that one of Anne's friends was into Highlander back in the day, so we talked about that for a while. But in general the whole thing reminds of me when I was in third grade, and I'd ask people if they were into "Star Wars" (no one was), and when they weren't I'd be incapable of conversing with them. I suck at small talk.
I wish I had a fandom now. I can't make myself be interested in something; I suppose I just have to follow the obsessive nature of my personality wherever it takes me. PIG, Sharpe, Sean Bean marathons, the fact that I spent the past few days reading and comparing multiple versions of the original Terminator script.... (some fascinating changes in there, and a bunch of cuts that were all for the better). Hopefully I'll eventually end up getting into something that other people are into at the same time, and then I can do that whole participatory social "fandom" thing again... On the plus side, I have awesome friends, and as long as I listen to their three hour exegesis on their favorite soap opera, they'll usually indulge me rambling about whatever random thing I'm obsessed with at the moment. ;)
Valentine's Day is coming up, which has me feeling vaguely depressed that there exists a holiday for pretty much the sole purpose of making single people feel inadequate. Happily it's also Lucifer's birthday, so I can just focus on the fact that this otherwise crappy day brought me the coolest, sweetest, greatest cat ever in the history of the universe, so it can't possibly be all bad.
This is too cute for words.
Also, I hate Apple, but yay Steve Jobs for saying this.
Can you tell I'm writing this post while reading through the links on my friends' list?
The Colbert Report has been making me so happy lately. The other day I caught a re-run of the one where Stephen laments that "some people don't want to see Harriet Tubman in a space train" and then just sits there grinning and trying not to crack up. I get bored by re-runs of the Daily Show--the main thing I get out of that is the relief of hearing rational commentary on the world's insanity. Watching it twice is like watching a re-run of the news. Whereas The Colbert Report is such brilliant satire that I could watch it forever. It's like... I was watching The Princess Bride recently, for the hundred gazillionth time, and I'll never get sick of that movie.
Oh yeah, so that's the other reason that I'm not getting too depressed over Single-People-Suck Day. Colbert Report tickets!!! I'm taking a half-day off work just so I can freeze my ass off outside in line all day to make sure I get in.
There are so many reasons that I wish summer would just hurry up and get here. Why is it that time always goes by too fast, except when I have stuff to look forward to, and then it moves like a glacier? (And speaking of glaciers, this weather is KILLING ME. It's great that I can walk to work, except when I'm walking against the wind in 10 degree [feels like -5] weather for 15 minutes, and then I arrive and my damp hair is frozen. It makes the subway commute that'll result from moving to Brooklyn sound like a good thing; at least those cars are underground and warm. I was so bundled up heading to work today that Lucifer actually got scared and made his tail all big when he saw me! This is NOT characteristic behavior--he's the world's most easy-going cat, so I can only assume he thought I got possessed by a monster or something.)
I really wish I could go into hibernation right now and just wake up for the good stuff. Colbert Report, NY Comic Con, Cruxshadows, Common Rotation in Boston, visiting my friend in the midwest, possible Chemlab tour, new Harry Potter movie, new Harry Potter book (just think of all the fodder it will provide for Fandom Wank!), new Pirates movie, moving to Brooklyn (*fingers crossed that this will work out!*), DragonCon... I can't believe that DragonCon is still seven months away! I'm ready for it now. :P
I kind of miss Buffy fandom. It was fun having that kind of all-consuming obsession with something, and being able to share it with so many people. It was also so neat getting into the culture, learning all the acronyms and terms and references.... I don't know if I will ever get into a fandom the way I did with Buffy, and it makes me really sad to think that. I was so naive and clueless at the time, and now that I know so much about how TV shows and fandoms work, how could I ever work up that same level of investment and idealism about the story and characters? (On the plus side, I'm way less wanky now that I know not to care so much!)
Maybe I am just in one of my periodic "OMG life is so dull without a fandom" phases. Something come along and seize my attention, dammit!
I'm not really watching anymore, but there is some part of me that, once it begins caring about a show, really doesn't want to let go. Someone needs to distract me on Tuesday nights so that I don't get tempted to turn on Channel 11 at 9pm. It never turns out well.
The Dick character kind of reminds me of Andrew on BtVS. Andrew covered up Katrina's death and murdered Jonathan, but the actor is funny, so let's forget all that and use him as comic relief. Dick roofied his girlfriend's drink and encouraged his brother to rape Veronica, but he's funny, so let's pretend that wasn't a big deal. It just seems really cheap, and disrespectful to the audience, to ignore your own canon that way. How are we supposed to take anything seriously when the writers are so selective about what matters? (The same way we were supposed to be all horrified at Buffy sleeping with Spike because he had KILLED PEOPLE, but were supposed to be amused at Xander sleeping with Anya, who had actually killed WAY MORE people and was equally unrepentant.)
I don't mind characters being blind/clueless/irrational/hypocritical when it's actually part of their storylines, but when it's just a result of the writers taking shortcuts, it's LAME. I mean... we're really supposed to be that offended about Logan sleeping with someone else when he and Veronica are broken up? Really?
I went to my friend Anne's birthday party on Friday night. It was fun, and good to see everyone, but I kind of felt like an alien. Everyone was either talking about work or relationships. I had nothing to say. I suck at being a girl. (I was reading this article about mothers and daughters bonding over pedicures in the NY Times and just... what are these creatures? Surely they're not from the same planet as me?)
So I was like... hey, who wants to talk about sci-fi fandom? But even then, I don't really have much to say, because I'm not watching any of the current shows. I hear Lost and Heroes and Battlestar Galactica are all entertaining, but I don't really care about watching them. I'll see them on DVD eventually if they last a while and word of mouth remains positive. I did discover that one of Anne's friends was into Highlander back in the day, so we talked about that for a while. But in general the whole thing reminds of me when I was in third grade, and I'd ask people if they were into "Star Wars" (no one was), and when they weren't I'd be incapable of conversing with them. I suck at small talk.
I wish I had a fandom now. I can't make myself be interested in something; I suppose I just have to follow the obsessive nature of my personality wherever it takes me. PIG, Sharpe, Sean Bean marathons, the fact that I spent the past few days reading and comparing multiple versions of the original Terminator script.... (some fascinating changes in there, and a bunch of cuts that were all for the better). Hopefully I'll eventually end up getting into something that other people are into at the same time, and then I can do that whole participatory social "fandom" thing again... On the plus side, I have awesome friends, and as long as I listen to their three hour exegesis on their favorite soap opera, they'll usually indulge me rambling about whatever random thing I'm obsessed with at the moment. ;)
Valentine's Day is coming up, which has me feeling vaguely depressed that there exists a holiday for pretty much the sole purpose of making single people feel inadequate. Happily it's also Lucifer's birthday, so I can just focus on the fact that this otherwise crappy day brought me the coolest, sweetest, greatest cat ever in the history of the universe, so it can't possibly be all bad.
This is too cute for words.
Also, I hate Apple, but yay Steve Jobs for saying this.
Can you tell I'm writing this post while reading through the links on my friends' list?
The Colbert Report has been making me so happy lately. The other day I caught a re-run of the one where Stephen laments that "some people don't want to see Harriet Tubman in a space train" and then just sits there grinning and trying not to crack up. I get bored by re-runs of the Daily Show--the main thing I get out of that is the relief of hearing rational commentary on the world's insanity. Watching it twice is like watching a re-run of the news. Whereas The Colbert Report is such brilliant satire that I could watch it forever. It's like... I was watching The Princess Bride recently, for the hundred gazillionth time, and I'll never get sick of that movie.
Oh yeah, so that's the other reason that I'm not getting too depressed over Single-People-Suck Day. Colbert Report tickets!!! I'm taking a half-day off work just so I can freeze my ass off outside in line all day to make sure I get in.
There are so many reasons that I wish summer would just hurry up and get here. Why is it that time always goes by too fast, except when I have stuff to look forward to, and then it moves like a glacier? (And speaking of glaciers, this weather is KILLING ME. It's great that I can walk to work, except when I'm walking against the wind in 10 degree [feels like -5] weather for 15 minutes, and then I arrive and my damp hair is frozen. It makes the subway commute that'll result from moving to Brooklyn sound like a good thing; at least those cars are underground and warm. I was so bundled up heading to work today that Lucifer actually got scared and made his tail all big when he saw me! This is NOT characteristic behavior--he's the world's most easy-going cat, so I can only assume he thought I got possessed by a monster or something.)
I really wish I could go into hibernation right now and just wake up for the good stuff. Colbert Report, NY Comic Con, Cruxshadows, Common Rotation in Boston, visiting my friend in the midwest, possible Chemlab tour, new Harry Potter movie, new Harry Potter book (just think of all the fodder it will provide for Fandom Wank!), new Pirates movie, moving to Brooklyn (*fingers crossed that this will work out!*), DragonCon... I can't believe that DragonCon is still seven months away! I'm ready for it now. :P
I kind of miss Buffy fandom. It was fun having that kind of all-consuming obsession with something, and being able to share it with so many people. It was also so neat getting into the culture, learning all the acronyms and terms and references.... I don't know if I will ever get into a fandom the way I did with Buffy, and it makes me really sad to think that. I was so naive and clueless at the time, and now that I know so much about how TV shows and fandoms work, how could I ever work up that same level of investment and idealism about the story and characters? (On the plus side, I'm way less wanky now that I know not to care so much!)
Maybe I am just in one of my periodic "OMG life is so dull without a fandom" phases. Something come along and seize my attention, dammit!