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apocalypsosI've been thinking lately about the way I used to be obsessed about Lost has now been transferred over to Supernatural, except my Supernatural infatuation is so much stronger.
I still do like Lost, being very much a character-driven drama in which I do like certain characters. I think my big problem of late is less what's being done with them and more the way it's being executed. I just ... I don't know. I plan on watching this week, but I guess I'm just tired. I want something else than what I've been getting. I can't even articulate it. I know the whole thing about a million mysteries being tossed out and none of them being solved has been discussed, and I'm not sure that's my problem anyway, because mysteries ARE being solved. Not a lot of them, of course, but still.
I don't know if this is going to make sense to anybody else, but I think it's that I don't get the world this is happening in anymore. I mean, I get the world that Supernatural is happening in (and love it to pieces, because it's my kind of world), a world where magical, mystical things happen and two brothers can become gun-toting crusaders against evil. I get the world Veronica Mars happens in, where you're either insanely rich or poor (well, poor in comparison) and either way you're delightfully snarky and your life is fucked-up. I even kind of get the world Desperate Housewives happens in, where housewives dress in fancy clothes and behave like selfish twits (although admittedly somewhat amusing selfish twits). But after a season and a half, I just don't get the world Lost takes place in. I'm not saying I don't understand the plotlines. I'm saying that as a writer I don't understand where this stuff is coming from or where it's going, and every long-term story arc I come up with in my head shows the payoff so far ahead as to be not worth the effort. Not that I'm not patient enough to wait, but there's got to be some damn good incentive for me to stay, and there just isn't right now. And the pretty isn't enough to entice me at the moment, because Supernatural has three different yummy guys for me to swoon over.
And everybody keeps telling me every time I say I missed it that this week's episode was really good or this scene was great or I'm missing out on this-or-that-or-the-other-thing. That's the thing, though -- watch it or not, I can't bring myself to care. I mean, when I love a show, I get plotbunnies that drive me out of my mind. Supernatural is such hardcore crack to me right now, because I'm getting plotbunnies for stuff at the drop of a hat. Sure, some of the plots need work, but that's half of the fun. And they're nailing every single thing the characters to do to the point where the Winchesters are my favorite characters on TV right now. I know these guys. I understand them. I could totally hang out with them. And it's not just plotbunnies for the same stuff over and over again -- I'm literally all over the map here. Het and Wincest, comedy and drama, crackfic and AUs ... this show is feeding my muses like crazy, and I'm loving it. Contrast that to Lost, where I don't think I've had a decent plotbunny this season, which is usually a pretty good sign of where I stand with a show.
Meanwhile, there's Project Runway, which is both amusing the hell out of me and pissing me off to no extent. The main culprit, of course, is Santino, who's a complete asstard and yet proves on some level that this show is doing what I want it to do -- it's keeping the people with talent. Granted, Santino's been crap at actually showing his talent the last few weeks, but he's one of those guys who I think could come up with something great if given the time to do so.
My problem lies with the crap that's been said lately by the judges. First off, the comment from the makeover show about Daniel being lucky he was safe because he would have been kicked out over his dress for Chloe was ridiculous. Let me get this straight -- he's been consistently excellent all season long, has won four competitions, and yet one badly made dress would have gotten him kicked off? Oh, I'm sorry, but HELL, no. That whole thing was just ludicrous, and that was just my biggest pet peeve, to go along with, "They liked Santino's hideous sportswear outfit?!", "Santino gets to stay even though Kara's outfit was falling apart on the runway?!", and "Nick is getting kicked off for making Daniel look like a hot European rentboy who just rolled out of bed?! THE FUCK?! I'm going to have that hot little image in my head every time I see that boy again, you morons!" My restraint is overwhelming, because at no time did I lose my tentative grip on reality and try to punch Michael Kors through my television set.
I'm sincerely hoping Kara gets kicked off this week, but with my luck, I doubt it. She's the only one left whose collection I have no desire to see. Not that I would hate it, but it's more like I'm just irritated by her at this point anyway. That's the thing -- as big of an insufferable asshole as Santino can be, his good stuff is really good while his bad stuff is entertainingly awful. Chloe's collection is one I'd like to see, and Daniel is ... well, Daniel. :)
Right now, it's not the contestants who are bothering me, it's the judges, who can all feel free to go to hell.
And then there's Veronica Mars. The more I watch, the more I wish it had been on when I was in high school, and that I'd known about fanfiction back then (or at least had thought to try something like it), because not only would have I have loved it like crazy back then, I could have totally used the writing practice. I think my only really huge problem this season (aside from Jackie, who's getting better, and Wallace leaving, but since he came back I can forgive) is the whole baby plotline, especially considering how little sense the kidnapping makes if Duncan Kane being the father means the custody issue would be ridiculously easy to solve. I'm really holding out hope for my theory that it's not really his baby, and that when Veronica finds out, that whole first-love attachment she might have to his deceiving her will fade, AND that helping him might mean consequences could bite her in the ass even worse than they already could have. It would explain not only Duncan's behavior this season, but also the cast and crew's supposed surprise when theere were complaints about "Donut Run". Maybe they think they made it blatantly obvious that Duncan's not the real dad. Hell, I don't know. My personal theory is that when Duncan vanished last season -- which if I'm doing the math right would be right about the time Meg got pregnant -- an upset Meg slept with one of the dads she babysat for. And I'm wondering if the dad with the boat and the pot isn't a red herring to throw us off Steve Guttenberg in that department, which could tie in to the reason for the bus crash. (I swear to God, if any of this is remotely true, I will be shocked. SHOCKED. And not just because my latching onto a theory makes it immediately untrue. It's like Murphy's Law, except it's all mine. TP's Law of Fandom ... Any strange ideas involving the resolution of a story arc will be automatically null and void as soon as I believe in them. :))
In a final comment, I really have to start watching Grey's Anatomy every week. Not that I've never watched it before. I have, just not obsessively like my other fandom loves. But I'm horribly attached to most if not all of the characters (George trailing after Bailey last week and worshipping the ground she waddled on made me so freaking happy) and last week's episode was amazing.
EDIT: My Nohari window, for the negative stuff Johari doesn't give you. Eeeeeexcellent. I love this, because it's one thing to get compliments and another to get affirmation you're selfish, cowardly and needy, which I'll be the first to admit are my biggest faults.
I still do like Lost, being very much a character-driven drama in which I do like certain characters. I think my big problem of late is less what's being done with them and more the way it's being executed. I just ... I don't know. I plan on watching this week, but I guess I'm just tired. I want something else than what I've been getting. I can't even articulate it. I know the whole thing about a million mysteries being tossed out and none of them being solved has been discussed, and I'm not sure that's my problem anyway, because mysteries ARE being solved. Not a lot of them, of course, but still.
I don't know if this is going to make sense to anybody else, but I think it's that I don't get the world this is happening in anymore. I mean, I get the world that Supernatural is happening in (and love it to pieces, because it's my kind of world), a world where magical, mystical things happen and two brothers can become gun-toting crusaders against evil. I get the world Veronica Mars happens in, where you're either insanely rich or poor (well, poor in comparison) and either way you're delightfully snarky and your life is fucked-up. I even kind of get the world Desperate Housewives happens in, where housewives dress in fancy clothes and behave like selfish twits (although admittedly somewhat amusing selfish twits). But after a season and a half, I just don't get the world Lost takes place in. I'm not saying I don't understand the plotlines. I'm saying that as a writer I don't understand where this stuff is coming from or where it's going, and every long-term story arc I come up with in my head shows the payoff so far ahead as to be not worth the effort. Not that I'm not patient enough to wait, but there's got to be some damn good incentive for me to stay, and there just isn't right now. And the pretty isn't enough to entice me at the moment, because Supernatural has three different yummy guys for me to swoon over.
And everybody keeps telling me every time I say I missed it that this week's episode was really good or this scene was great or I'm missing out on this-or-that-or-the-other-thing. That's the thing, though -- watch it or not, I can't bring myself to care. I mean, when I love a show, I get plotbunnies that drive me out of my mind. Supernatural is such hardcore crack to me right now, because I'm getting plotbunnies for stuff at the drop of a hat. Sure, some of the plots need work, but that's half of the fun. And they're nailing every single thing the characters to do to the point where the Winchesters are my favorite characters on TV right now. I know these guys. I understand them. I could totally hang out with them. And it's not just plotbunnies for the same stuff over and over again -- I'm literally all over the map here. Het and Wincest, comedy and drama, crackfic and AUs ... this show is feeding my muses like crazy, and I'm loving it. Contrast that to Lost, where I don't think I've had a decent plotbunny this season, which is usually a pretty good sign of where I stand with a show.
Meanwhile, there's Project Runway, which is both amusing the hell out of me and pissing me off to no extent. The main culprit, of course, is Santino, who's a complete asstard and yet proves on some level that this show is doing what I want it to do -- it's keeping the people with talent. Granted, Santino's been crap at actually showing his talent the last few weeks, but he's one of those guys who I think could come up with something great if given the time to do so.
My problem lies with the crap that's been said lately by the judges. First off, the comment from the makeover show about Daniel being lucky he was safe because he would have been kicked out over his dress for Chloe was ridiculous. Let me get this straight -- he's been consistently excellent all season long, has won four competitions, and yet one badly made dress would have gotten him kicked off? Oh, I'm sorry, but HELL, no. That whole thing was just ludicrous, and that was just my biggest pet peeve, to go along with, "They liked Santino's hideous sportswear outfit?!", "Santino gets to stay even though Kara's outfit was falling apart on the runway?!", and "Nick is getting kicked off for making Daniel look like a hot European rentboy who just rolled out of bed?! THE FUCK?! I'm going to have that hot little image in my head every time I see that boy again, you morons!" My restraint is overwhelming, because at no time did I lose my tentative grip on reality and try to punch Michael Kors through my television set.
I'm sincerely hoping Kara gets kicked off this week, but with my luck, I doubt it. She's the only one left whose collection I have no desire to see. Not that I would hate it, but it's more like I'm just irritated by her at this point anyway. That's the thing -- as big of an insufferable asshole as Santino can be, his good stuff is really good while his bad stuff is entertainingly awful. Chloe's collection is one I'd like to see, and Daniel is ... well, Daniel. :)
Right now, it's not the contestants who are bothering me, it's the judges, who can all feel free to go to hell.
And then there's Veronica Mars. The more I watch, the more I wish it had been on when I was in high school, and that I'd known about fanfiction back then (or at least had thought to try something like it), because not only would have I have loved it like crazy back then, I could have totally used the writing practice. I think my only really huge problem this season (aside from Jackie, who's getting better, and Wallace leaving, but since he came back I can forgive) is the whole baby plotline, especially considering how little sense the kidnapping makes if Duncan Kane being the father means the custody issue would be ridiculously easy to solve. I'm really holding out hope for my theory that it's not really his baby, and that when Veronica finds out, that whole first-love attachment she might have to his deceiving her will fade, AND that helping him might mean consequences could bite her in the ass even worse than they already could have. It would explain not only Duncan's behavior this season, but also the cast and crew's supposed surprise when theere were complaints about "Donut Run". Maybe they think they made it blatantly obvious that Duncan's not the real dad. Hell, I don't know. My personal theory is that when Duncan vanished last season -- which if I'm doing the math right would be right about the time Meg got pregnant -- an upset Meg slept with one of the dads she babysat for. And I'm wondering if the dad with the boat and the pot isn't a red herring to throw us off Steve Guttenberg in that department, which could tie in to the reason for the bus crash. (I swear to God, if any of this is remotely true, I will be shocked. SHOCKED. And not just because my latching onto a theory makes it immediately untrue. It's like Murphy's Law, except it's all mine. TP's Law of Fandom ... Any strange ideas involving the resolution of a story arc will be automatically null and void as soon as I believe in them. :))
In a final comment, I really have to start watching Grey's Anatomy every week. Not that I've never watched it before. I have, just not obsessively like my other fandom loves. But I'm horribly attached to most if not all of the characters (George trailing after Bailey last week and worshipping the ground she waddled on made me so freaking happy) and last week's episode was amazing.
EDIT: My Nohari window, for the negative stuff Johari doesn't give you. Eeeeeexcellent. I love this, because it's one thing to get compliments and another to get affirmation you're selfish, cowardly and needy, which I'll be the first to admit are my biggest faults.
