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Pick your five favourite TV shows (in no particular order) and answer the following questions about them. Don’t cheat!
1. Supernatural
2. Farscape
3. Doctor Who (RTD years)
4. Highlander
5. White Collar
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I’ve been thinking about Supernatural in relation to Farscape. Farscape is a better show, but SPN pings my fannish radar more intensely. I’m wondering why.
One of the aspects I love most about Farscape is that it captures how complicated, messy, and conflicted human beings are. For a show about aliens, it’s probably the most accurate portrayal of humanity that I’ve ever seen in a TV show.
I read an article recently (now I can’t find it–I think it was in the New York Times Magazine) about how humans don’t have single personalities or single motivations, but we actually contain multiple, competing, and conflicting selves and desires, and our consciousness is what sorts these out and decides which ones we’re actually going to go with and which we’re going to reject/repress/ignore.
( Farscape just kind of instinctively got this. It was *messy*. Supernatural is neater, cleaner, and more conventional. But here are a bunch of things I do like about SPN. )Originally published at rusty-halo.com. You can comment here or there.
I’m pretty sure that Matt Bomer is the most attractive man on television. White Collar season two starts in less than two weeks! There are ads all over the subway–it feels like they decorated just for me.
Here is a fic in which John Crichton attempts to explain the plot of Hamlet to the crew of Moya. It’s got perfect character voices and is awesome.
I’m currently listening to Blind Spot by pdragon76, read by twasadark. There is so much fantastic well-written hurt/comfort gen in SPN fandom. ♥♥♥
This review of Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while:
Another one of the ways in which this movie pokes fun at the very idea of epic fantasy: the endless confusing voice-over, in which tons of important story developments happen off-camera while we’re looking at a picture of a tree or a CG mountain. Because why do we privilege the story of the hero’s progress over the tree?, Shaymalan asks. Why does the original Star Wars insist on showing us Luke Skywalker training with a lightsaber, instead of telling us that Luke Skywalker trained with a lightsaber while showing us a tracking shot of some rocks? Why pretend that one thing is more important than the other thing? Why pretend that any of it has any meaning? As a wise man once wrote, “A menu is as good as a myth.”
Also, if the original Star Wars had given us a tracking shot of rocks, with a voiceover explaining that Luke was learning to use a lightsaber someplace else, it would have freed up more screen time for Luke to stand around shouting, “JAWAS! THERE IS SAND UNDER YOUR FEET!”
Did you read that zombie AU recap of the neverending tennis match over at the Guardian? That was hilarious, too.
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This letter written by 20-year-old David Bowie to his first American fan is pretty much the cutest thing ever.
(Well, I guess the surprised kitten is cuter.)
I’ve been having a hard time with Farscape fanfic (first step to making a story readable: Find: “half-breed”; Replace: “Scorpius”) but I’ve been enjoying vids. Particularly comedy vids, like this Scorpius/Braca one, or Scorpius as the Grinch. Man, I wish I’d been in the fandom when the show aired… I love it very much but there’s not really any kind of outlet for my enthusiasm. Active fandoms are a lot more fun.
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Where do I go for Farscape fic? Anyone have recs? Ideally centered on John, Aeryn, and/or Scorpius (or Harvey).
Good: Hurt/comfort, long epics, alternate seasons, humor, darkfic, slash.
Bad: Schmoop, babyfic, agendafic, anything OOC or too AU.
Please?
Yes, everyone who tried for years to talk me into watching Farscape was right. I loved it.
I just finished the series. I began to really like it in seasons two and three, but didn’t find myself totally in love until season four. It took a while for the show to actually gel into the quality they were attempting all along, but once it did it became absolutely brilliant. I had no idea how dark, odd, twisted, and kinky the show would get! And yes, I did fall totally in love with John Crichton. He’s an insane, hilarious, fucked-up mess of a character. He ended up hitting all my fictional kinks and probably creating a few new ones. Aeryn Sun just got better and better, passionate and vulnerable without compromising her strength and competence. John and Aeryn might be the best portrayal of a relationship of equals that I’ve ever seen on television.
You were all right. I should have watched it sooner. And I would really like to smack in the face whatever moron at the Sci Fi Channel decided to cancel this amazing show!
( a couple of complaints and a bunch more things I loved )
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I haven’t been on LJ or DreamWidth for about two months. Um, did I miss anything?
I’m not sure if I’m coming back. I was basically forced off because my computer broke, but my computer has been working for a month now and… yeah. I’m really enjoying the free time that comes with not spending hours on journaling sites every day. I also think that removing myself from the obsessive lunacy of fandom has done wonders for my own sanity. :P
I miss you guys, though. I’m thinking of maybe trimming my reading list to just real people and checking in a couple times per week.
Part of it was post-Writercon burnout. Part is that I’m just kind of… done… with mainstream television. Canceling my cable TV was one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life. I’m not even angry about the myriad ways TV sucks; I’m just not interested in spending time on it anymore.
I’ve been cooking every day, working on freelance projects, getting my finances in order, organizing my apartment, taking long walks around NYC, going to museums (the Neue Galerie is amazing), reading proper books (currently on The Power Broker about Robert Moses), and downloading lots of 1970s David Bowie goodies.
(Proof that I’ve drunk the Bowie Kool-Aid: the other day I found myself listening to the Young Americans album with unreserved adoration. I’ve also been watching a lot of interviews and was surprised to find that I really like David Bowie. When I got into his music, I really was not expecting to find him likable as a person. I respect his intelligence, hard work, self-awareness, and courage to take wild creative leaps.)
But part of the reason it’s foolish to post here is that you guys are not the appropriate audience for my thoughts on David Bowie. It is really starting to hit me that in my heart, I’m not a TV fan; I’m a music fan who happens to get into TV fandoms in the off periods when I can’t find music that engages me. I’m not sure what the appropriate venue is, though; music fandoms tend to center around message boards full of pedantic fanboys with whom I wouldn’t fit either. I think the best answer is probably just to go back to being a solitary fan.
( The main reason I'm posting is to tell Cindergal that I am still watching Farscape as promised )Originally published at rusty-halo.com. You can comment here or there.
* I came home from Writercon to find my computer dead. The motherboard is fried. I just spent $350 on replacement parts. (There goes my half-fantasized Labor Day beach vacation.) My brother is going to help me put it back together via phone, which… well, cross your fingers for me. I’m a software person, not a hardware person. He thinks there’s an 80% chance I’ll be able to get my old system working with the new hardware–otherwise I’ll have to buy a new hard drive, install a new operating system, reinstall all my programs, and copy over all my old files. Here’s hoping for that 80% chance.
( and the next day the fuse that powers my entire apartment blew and it was insanely stressful )
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