If I get a tattoo of a television set, that would be bad, right?

[apocalypsos]

I've been thinking about it the last few days after talking about and reading a couple of things, and I'm realizing that a lot of what I want this TV season is less stress.

I haven't seen many people talking about Grey's Anatomy this season, and quite frankly I haven't seen one damn episode since the season started. And I know it's just a TV show, but weirdly enough I feel better not watching it. When I think back on it I can rarely think of a time when I ever left an episode of the show feeling truly giddy, really ecstatic about what was going on and almost never because of something good happening to the characters.

I've already seen a handful of people giving up on Pushing Daisies, but I think after last season -- where I came out of Grey's Anatomy so often either seething at Shonda or depressed out of my mind, where I was getting yet another round of the Jim And Pam Are Never Going To Get To Hook Up, Are They? show every damn week, where it was rare when a character on Heroes who wasn't Hiro just enjoyed the hell out of their powers -- I need the low-stress environment of a fantastical fairy tale of a show like Pushing Daisies, and characters on Heroes like Monica and West (who for all of his creepy fault still enjoys the hell out of his abilities), and for Jim and Pam to just be complete woobies every week from now on without significant others and geography getting in the way.

I read an article the other day that said that this season of The Office was going downhill and said now that Jim and Pam were together they were so boring (thankfully, there was nearly unanimous disagreement with that in the article's comments section), and all I could think was, "Jesus, does nobody get to be freakin' HAPPY on TV anymore?" Just ... I mean, there were weeks last year where I was coming out of my shows with nothing making me happy. Nothing. People were dying and characters were riddled with angst and it HURT. I've been such a couch potato for years and it's so irritating when it's just pain, pain, pain ALL the time.

I mean, look at Heroes. I love that show but there's some weeks I come out of it with the impression that when there are characters like Monica and Hiro who are enjoying having abilities the writers are just sitting in a room somewhere saying, "Oh, you poor idiots, you'll learn soon enough that having these powers means PAIN." Currently the two most emotionally heavy shows on my schedule are SPN and Heroes (and As The World Turns, although it's a soap opera, for crying out loud -- there's supposed to be mucho angst there).Ugly Betty probably comes in a close third, but it's supposed to be a comedy and the fact that there are still comedic moments on a regular basis redeems the parts where I'm having my heart ripped out.

I've got Jim and Pam, and Ned and Chuck and everybody else at the Pie Hole, and Monica and Micah giggling over her doing double-dutch, and Team Bartowski. For God's sake, I'm dealing with enough stress in real life right now, so watching people getting emotionally beat up on a weekly basis is just not my idea of a good time this season. I want to see people having good relationships, I want to see some goddamn happy people for once, 'cause God knows I've been spending a lot of time lately just not being in a very good mood, damn it.

*sigh*

In other news, I could really go for some nachos right now.

Comments

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

So, would your new tattoo of the TV bear the legend "Teacher. Mother. Secret Lover"? ::snerk::

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Jesus, does nobody get to be freakin' HAPPY on TV anymore?" Just ... I mean, there were weeks last year where I was coming out of my shows with nothing making me happy. Nothing. People were dying and characters were riddled with angst and it HURT. I've been such a couch potato for years and it's so irritating when it's just pain, pain, pain ALL the time.


Yes, seriously. Sometimes I want to gather everyone in the tv and comics industry and show them Sullivan's Travels. The old movie where the famous director goes under cover to gather material on how grim and gritty life is and what he learns is that life can be so grim and gritty that something that makes you laugh is more precious than gold during those times.

[thexpuzzler.livejournal.com]

... you should try "Brothers and Sisters". That show makes me insanely happy. Of course, there are heavy angsty moments, but damn. There is so much love and happy and fun, too :) AND I love that the writers don't find it necessary to drag romances out into endlessness before the two charas get together. Apparently, the real difficulties actually start once you have another person to organize your life around instead of the usual "let's try to get together". It's a rather enjoyable flip :)

[swingangel.livejournal.com]

It makes me sad that people are giving up on Pushing Daisies already. That show is seriously fantastic, and to know that it's likely going to be replaced by some inane sitcom that caters to the lowest common denominator in humor saddens me.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

It bugs the shit out of me when TV characters get together and suddenly all the spark goes out the programme, and everyone starts blaming the "oh, they took away all the tension, all the tease" and that's why it hit the skids.

Bollocks. It hit the skids because the writers are rubbish.

But yeah, TV is my happy place. I've enough stress in real life. If I want TV stress, I've got the news.

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

Angst is in.

[beanarie.livejournal.com]

That's exactly why I gave up on ER years ago. No moderately happy couple was allowed to exist for more than half a season. And the spousal mortality rate on that show was ridiculous. Just off the top of my head I can rattle off a list of like ten characters who've lost a husband or wife. But I'll never forgive them for what they did with Carter and Abby. My two favorite characters at the time plus months of cute, relationship building interaction should not equal a swirling vortex of bitterness and ugliness. Just... no.

Also, holy crap at Micah and Monica. I want powers so that he can be my mentor.