Callum, stop being so pretty!
Jun. 1st, 2008 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krickets001. I watched The Invisible yesterday with my dad and I swear I'd forgotten how pretty Callum was in that movie. Just... yeah. Is it wrong that I want to read or write Larson/Annie fic now?
002. I have so much SGA to catch up on but for some reason I have been avoiding watching it. I think it may be because the hugest chunks of it I've watched have been when I've been feeling really crappy. So... it's psychological? I think I'm allergic to Sheppard or something.
003. I made this crazy-ass deal with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mistojen, all her idea by the way, that I'd agree to watch one season of Who and two seasons of T'wood if she watched the first three seasons of BSG. So I'm about four eps into Who. (Which, dude, cliffhanger, so episode five is going to be watched tonight.) Admittedly, it's a little too cheesy and campy sci fi for me, but I enjoy the dynamics between the Doc and Rose so I'm willing to look past the silly stuff for the good of... keeping up my end of the bargain. Hehe.
Watch, by the end of this she'll have me hooked or something. Have I been duped? Though I feel a bit badly because I've got a leg up on her, I already know a lot about the Who-verse and T'wood. (Yes that's what I'm calling it.) Because of my oh-so-knowledgeable flist, of course. *glomps*
004. Been putting this last part off. Supernatural and me? I think... we're divorced? As much as I wish I could say it's not true, the reality is that I am just too disappointed in season three to justify investing in season four.
I feel that all of the changes they made only worsened the show, and on top of that they were made for all the wrong reasons. (They got Ruby right, I really liked her.) But everything else it just... a thousand kinds of wrong - the new look, bright bubble-gum colors instead of dark, foggy, and serious; replacing creepy and scary with gore and shock; the changes they've made in the characters, turning Sam and Dean into these slapstick jokesters who are a far far cry from the heroes we met in seasons one and two; etc. etc.
I feel like they took away all of the things I liked about the show and replaced it with some alternate version of the show I'd been watching for two seasons. The things I loved about the show made it easier to ignore the things I didn't love about the show.
It used to be that I would be engaged and excited about each episode, disappointed when it was over, always too soon. But this season I've found myself looking at the clock and waiting for it to be over. I even turned an episode off in the middle at least once, and almost on several occasions.
This has nothing to do with the misogyny debate that was going on a couple of weeks ago, and everything to do with the fact that I feel Kripke and co. are so afraid of cancellation that they are forsaking past audience in favor of bringing in a younger, less female demographic. That's why all the gore, that's why all the slapstick, that's why they brought in two arbitrary hot chicks to stir the pot.
Granted, I loved Ruby, but I would have been perfectly happy if they had reached into their nearly endless supply of former guest stars and brought back a female or two (even as love interests!) that would have been recognized by the audience. In fact, the fact that the boys never seem to run into any of the people they've helped along the way is one of those little things that sorta bugged me, but I used to be able to easily overlook.
Watching the finale, I didn't even care about Dean's death. I just didn't. It was all gore and no emotion. I've seen someone else mention, and I felt this too while watching, that the episode itself was shot in a very unemotional way. For me, thinking back on John's death and the way that was done? This is just a completely different show. It's strayed so far from what it used to be.
And so maybe in the fall, I'll decide to give it another go. But for now? I'm just... sad. Sad because I went from loving a show to very nearly literally hating it in one season. So... I honestly doubt I will be watching.
It's so stupid, but lately sometimes just thinking about the show frustrates me. It's definitely why I've yet to finish those two drabble requests from over a month ago. Crazy!
002. I have so much SGA to catch up on but for some reason I have been avoiding watching it. I think it may be because the hugest chunks of it I've watched have been when I've been feeling really crappy. So... it's psychological? I think I'm allergic to Sheppard or something.
003. I made this crazy-ass deal with
mistojen, all her idea by the way, that I'd agree to watch one season of Who and two seasons of T'wood if she watched the first three seasons of BSG. So I'm about four eps into Who. (Which, dude, cliffhanger, so episode five is going to be watched tonight.) Admittedly, it's a little too cheesy and campy sci fi for me, but I enjoy the dynamics between the Doc and Rose so I'm willing to look past the silly stuff for the good of... keeping up my end of the bargain. Hehe. Watch, by the end of this she'll have me hooked or something. Have I been duped? Though I feel a bit badly because I've got a leg up on her, I already know a lot about the Who-verse and T'wood. (Yes that's what I'm calling it.) Because of my oh-so-knowledgeable flist, of course. *glomps*
004. Been putting this last part off. Supernatural and me? I think... we're divorced? As much as I wish I could say it's not true, the reality is that I am just too disappointed in season three to justify investing in season four.
I feel that all of the changes they made only worsened the show, and on top of that they were made for all the wrong reasons. (They got Ruby right, I really liked her.) But everything else it just... a thousand kinds of wrong - the new look, bright bubble-gum colors instead of dark, foggy, and serious; replacing creepy and scary with gore and shock; the changes they've made in the characters, turning Sam and Dean into these slapstick jokesters who are a far far cry from the heroes we met in seasons one and two; etc. etc.
I feel like they took away all of the things I liked about the show and replaced it with some alternate version of the show I'd been watching for two seasons. The things I loved about the show made it easier to ignore the things I didn't love about the show.
It used to be that I would be engaged and excited about each episode, disappointed when it was over, always too soon. But this season I've found myself looking at the clock and waiting for it to be over. I even turned an episode off in the middle at least once, and almost on several occasions.
This has nothing to do with the misogyny debate that was going on a couple of weeks ago, and everything to do with the fact that I feel Kripke and co. are so afraid of cancellation that they are forsaking past audience in favor of bringing in a younger, less female demographic. That's why all the gore, that's why all the slapstick, that's why they brought in two arbitrary hot chicks to stir the pot.
Granted, I loved Ruby, but I would have been perfectly happy if they had reached into their nearly endless supply of former guest stars and brought back a female or two (even as love interests!) that would have been recognized by the audience. In fact, the fact that the boys never seem to run into any of the people they've helped along the way is one of those little things that sorta bugged me, but I used to be able to easily overlook.
Watching the finale, I didn't even care about Dean's death. I just didn't. It was all gore and no emotion. I've seen someone else mention, and I felt this too while watching, that the episode itself was shot in a very unemotional way. For me, thinking back on John's death and the way that was done? This is just a completely different show. It's strayed so far from what it used to be.
And so maybe in the fall, I'll decide to give it another go. But for now? I'm just... sad. Sad because I went from loving a show to very nearly literally hating it in one season. So... I honestly doubt I will be watching.
It's so stupid, but lately sometimes just thinking about the show frustrates me. It's definitely why I've yet to finish those two drabble requests from over a month ago. Crazy!