the big catch-up post (not ketchup, totally different.)

[krickets]

→ Feeling okay this morning. I should have set my alarm to get up on time so I could make up some hours at work. Fooey.

→ I wanted to review the first two episodes of Pushing Daisies and Friday Night Lights, but that's like... four? whole episodes, and I'm way too lazy for that, so here's a brief bit of... squee, if you will.

If you think about it, these shows fall on opposite ends of the spectrum. One is high fantasy, very fairy-tale like, and one is very grim and reality-based. (Even moreso than regular dramas, if you watch it, you know what I mean.) But what they have in common is that both of them are gloriously executed. I don't think there is a night on TV right now that surpasses Wednesday in terms of the awesomeness and quality that comprises these two shows. They make me happy. They make me feel. Basically what I'm saying is... Yay! Pushing Daisies and Friday Night Lights! For fitting as much awesome as humanly possible into one hour of TV. Thank you, Thank you.

→ zelda_zee called my attention to this meta by xparrot which is about different fannish types and how we're all getting something different out of the shows that we watch. I thought it was very interesting and insightful. I think I'm a little bit of both types suggested. I think I weigh in on the intellectual side, but there's a good chunk of the emotional fanning going on over here too. Obviously I have favorite characters (though not with every show, several of my shows I simply love everyone!) but I tend not to have OTPs. I tend to multi-ship my favorite characters.

Actually, this reminds me of a post that chloris67 made the other day about OTCs (or favorite characters) and multi-shipping but then simply having one OT3 (Jawyercita, Kara/Leoben/Sam...) it's pretty unrelated to the fannish types discussion, but here's a link. Because it's interesting!

→ I finished reading Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (the first of the novels that True Blood is based on) and have started the second.

I joined the Sam/Sookie community on livejournal (sam_sookie, I believe) because it's the only "Sam-centered" community I could find so far. (I like Sam/Tara as well, like I said, multi-shipper here.) I noticed that a lot of long-time readers are displeased with the way Sam is portrayed in the show. Obviously, I disagree. The majority seems think he's being made out to be pretty creepy, whereas he isn't in the book. But I didn't find him creepy even before reading the books, so I feel like maybe many long-time readers are just very close and protective of their characters? I feel that they've fleshed him out really well (because the books are 1st person, Sookie's POV) and that the showrunners are simply trying to misdirect the audience into thinking Sam could possibly be the bad guy. I'm sure that the intention is that when they find out his true nature and true intentions, they'll understand his prior behavior better. (I commented in more detail over here.)

→ I'm having woes about Supernatural. I quit the show and I'm perfectly happy with that. But it seems I can't escape it either way. I guess over the summer I'd forgotten how many of you (my flisters) watch and review that show. And, I'm not going to lie it's a bit overwhelming. (And yet underwhelming at the same time... if that makes sense.)

There are several varied and numerous reasons why I've given up that show for good, and I think I might make a giant post of reasons, maybe later today. (This post is getting too long.) But my point in bringing it up now, is that it does put this huge divide between me and my flist. At least when I hated the fuck out of that show last year I could still discuss and hate it with you. Now, A) I'm not watching so true discussion isn't an option and B) Everything about it infuriates me. I mean, we're talking Mrs. White, flames on the side of my face, breathing breath, heaving breaths, type hate. So yeah. DIVIDE. It's huge and un-ignorable, and frustrating. And I'm no longer making coherent thoughts. Ignore me.

Comments

[ageless-aislynn.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're just exactly where I was when I quit SPN. A great deal of my flist is still very active and involved in it but I just tend to skip the posts where the latest ep or whatever is all that's being discussed ('cause what could I really say but "Uh, sorry, didn't see it," right? ;) ). I just keep an eye out for the posts that either have something else in them that I can respond to: "And that's my review of this week's ep. In other news, I just got a new puppy! Here are some pics..." ;)

Sad to say, I have lost touch with some of the ones whom we only had SPN in common and they talk about nothing other than the show and they either don't watch or don't like any of my fandoms that I post about. But the ones with whom I was more of a friend friend than just a fandom buddy type, then we still talk about the personal stuff ("Oh yay, you got a puppy!" ;) ). And you'll no doubt end up picking up new flisters from the fandoms that you ARE enjoying/active in.

So it ends up kinda being like life in general: you'll have some friends you're really close to and then all of the sudden, they've drifted away and you'll have others who will stay around for a while even through fandom changes and all of that. ;)

So I guess what I'm trying to say (and being verrrrrry wordy about it ;) ) is to not let it stress you out. When a show stops being fun for you, you have to let it go. It's really sad that that means letting go of some people as well, but if you only had that one thing in common, then eventually that was probably bound to happen anyway. :( But the ones who care about you and whom you care about them, then they'll still be around. ;)

I'm a-gonna check out those fannish discussions as soon as I'm done here (hope they're not f-locked, guess I should check that first... *checks* Nope, they're not, yay!).

Anyway, I've been thinking about you this week, hoping you were feeling better and things were going okay. *fingers crossed* ;) *hugs* ♥!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Ugh I don't know how to deal with it. You know... I hate the sound of velcro, it gives me chills and makes me shudder and if you fiddle with velco around me I'll probably get really pissed off at you. It's like nails on a chalkboard. And that's kind of how I feel about Supernatural right now.

I liked your point about people you're more of a friendfriend of than just a fandomfriend. I suppose that's true. Although you never really want to think of people in those terms. But I suppose it is true in many cases.

I mean, Ais, you've been in fandom longer than me (LotR, right?) and so I'm sure you've gone through this many times over, but for me it's kind of a new deal. Before LVI I was never a big participant in one particular fandom or another. I was a member of a movie chat group and I wrote a little bit of fanfic (Dawson'sCreek). Beyond that I simply bounced around and had no real "home." If I stopped liking something, then no big deal because it wasn't a collective thing. It was individual.

Of course, there's never been a situation in which I've gone from loving to loathing a show like I have with SPN. Any fading interest in the past was just that... fading. Not a full stop. Shows end or your interest/activity gradually slows down, or both! By the time you're "over it" the fandomfriends you bonded with over said fandom have probably already moved on, or maybe together you've moved on to talking about other things and become more friendfriends. But with SPN that is not the case at all.

(And someone else said, they feel like their flist is obsessed because so many people talk about it. Like if I suddenly decided Pushing Daisies was the worst thing on earth? No big deal because the fandom, and the percentage of my flist that actually talks about it, is microscopically small in comparison to SPN.)

Anyway, I'm trying not to stress about it. But I'm actually finding it difficult not to be annoyed by it. That velcro man, UGH!