Immunity face!Robert's gonna smack you one.

Dear Bravo,

Hi, there. Can we talk?

Okay, so I pretty much get addicted to every creative reality show you throw at my head. Project Runway, Top Chef, Shear Genius ... hell, I even sat through the mind-numbing debacle that was Top Design. Funny, how a show in which paint drying was an active plot concern at times made it feel as if it were so boring it were focusing exclusively on that aspect. In other words, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Anyway, I write this note to you regarding your commercials for the next season of Top Chef, in which one of the contestants says, "Somebody's got to be a bad guy."

You know what? I've had it up to HERE with fucking "bad guys."

I'm not watching these shows for the villain. In fact, it's inevitably the sections in which the villain(s) takes center stage that I turn off your damn shows. And I know I'm not the only one. If I want a villain, I'll watch Survivor or Big Brother, both of which bore the pants off me. These are TALENT competitions. I don't want to see people sniping at one another on your creative reality shows, I want to see the creative process at work. I want to see people coming up with pretty dresses or neat tricks I can use in the kitchen or cool ways to cheaply decorate my house.

You'd think you would have learned your goddamn lesson about villains during the last season of Top Chef, where you had a smug little punk half of the audience couldn't stand and a pack of snotty immature bullies the other half of the audience practically wanted arrested. And now most of the fans are going to avoid this season because of it. Hell, you think you would have learned something from Shear Genius, where you only had one truly gimmicky challenge (and even that was pretty awesome), all of your contestants had something to love about them, and your so-called villain ended up winning the Fan Favorite prize. Everybody loved it, so why are we falling back on this dramatic bullshit?

Give us Shear Genius-level brilliance again, for crying out loud. Appealing talented contestants, smart and useful challenges, decent judging that makes sense, and NO FUCKING VILLAINS. Sheesh.

Sincerely,

Me

*whimpers*

Why isn't writer's block a medical condition? Seriously, it feels like it should be. I think I'd be a happier person right now if I could just take two Aleve or something and be ready to pound away at a keyboard in two hours.

Until then, I'm the guest author on spnroundtable this month, so ... you know, go ask me questions about my writing and fic and stuff.

Okay, this is how much of a fangirl I am.

Dude, "A Few Good Men" is this weekend?

*fidgets*

I know this is highly unlikely to happen but if somebody could actually make it happen I would die, if only because, HI NEW DEFAULT ICON. And I have no idea if Jensen will be signing autographs after or taking pictures or whatever (because I'm so very much out of the loop), but.

If anybody can get a picture of him holding up a piece of paper that says "Hi, Jennifer!" on it, I will write you ANYTHING YOU WANT. I know it sounds stupid, but like I said, HI NEW DEFAULT ICON.

That would trump the flailing T-rex lots and lots and lots. Mmm-hmm. :)

(It's amazing how much silliness and possible embarrassment I'm willing to beg other people to go through in my name, but then again I always assume I'm never going to be in the same room with anybody remotely famous, especially Jensen. My luck will just never ever be that good. Ever.)