I TOTALLY DO! *geekgasm* After every episode this season so far I've been all THIS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!
...okay, so what I studied in college was Literature. I got to college and I thought, hey, I love to read, I should pick a field of study where I get to read and talk about books all the time! One thing I learned was that great literature did not always = stuff I absolutely love to read. During that same period of time I was dragged to all kinds of critically acclaimed movies during independent movie festivals, and I discovered that Great Movies do not always = movies I love.
I spent a lot of time feeling kind of lame about that. But I got over it. Mostly because many Great Movies and Great Books either bore me or make me cry, and life is too short to make myself do either of those things, right?
I really don't give a fuck if something isn't the Best Written Show Ever. I really don't give a fuck if people think I need to have my head checked for loving some show or another. There are a few cartoons I really love, and my sister spent all freaking week rolling her eyes at me about it and telling me I need a better hobby because I could answer all of the kids' questions about Batman. If I'd been in as bad a mood then as I am now I probably would have said something along the lines of, 'do you only watch shows sanctioned by the Socially Accepted Acting-Your-Age Pseudo-Intellectual Policing Society? Or do you just follow the fads obsessively? Or do you actually decide for yourself what you like and just sort of go with it like you are in fact allowed to do?'
*goes on random cussing streak off-stage*
Ahem. Okay. Sorry.
But seriously. If someone asks me if Stargate Atlantis is the Best Show Ever, I know they probably want to know if I think the writers deserve Emmys or if I think it hits every perfect mark on every existing issue; and no, I don't think any of those things. But I also kind of don't care. I DO think it's the Best Show Ever in terms of the amount of YAY!!! I get from it, and when it does do writerly or issue-y things right that's like an extra extra huge burst of yay which is pretty awesome. And frankly, that's all that matters, to me anyway, right now, while I'm enjoying it.
(Tangent: what is that called? The term has totally escaped me. Isn't there a term for people who live in the moment? Not that I do that in general, but that pretty much described my approach to entertainment...)
I guess, mostly, I'm wondering if there are other people who feel this way? People who like the show, but they feel a little ashamed of liking it because so few of their friends do anymore?
...kind of, ish? I don't necessarily feel ashamed, but it is a bit of a bummer to not be able to share the joy with people I've been used to sharing the joy with. Particularly when a lot of those people are defecting to Supernatural, which I have recently defected away from. *headdesk*
Except that I wouldn't have sex, no questions asked, with anyone.
I wouldn't either, in real life, but I like that meme as a sort of 'in a fantasy world, who would I...' thing. Like, if I answered John Sheppard, I would not be thinking along the lines of, if I bumped into John Sheppard on the street tomorrow and he propositioned me I'd totally tap that. I'd be thinking along the lines of, if I had been Larrin and I'd been necking with John Sheppard after narrowly escaping death by Wraith, I could have thought of better things to do with him than shoot him with a stunner, for God's sake.
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I TOTALLY DO! *geekgasm* After every episode this season so far I've been all THIS IS THE BEST SHOW EVER!!!!ELEVENTY!!!!
...okay, so what I studied in college was Literature. I got to college and I thought, hey, I love to read, I should pick a field of study where I get to read and talk about books all the time! One thing I learned was that great literature did not always = stuff I absolutely love to read. During that same period of time I was dragged to all kinds of critically acclaimed movies during independent movie festivals, and I discovered that Great Movies do not always = movies I love.
I spent a lot of time feeling kind of lame about that. But I got over it. Mostly because many Great Movies and Great Books either bore me or make me cry, and life is too short to make myself do either of those things, right?
I really don't give a fuck if something isn't the Best Written Show Ever. I really don't give a fuck if people think I need to have my head checked for loving some show or another. There are a few cartoons I really love, and my sister spent all freaking week rolling her eyes at me about it and telling me I need a better hobby because I could answer all of the kids' questions about Batman. If I'd been in as bad a mood then as I am now I probably would have said something along the lines of, 'do you only watch shows sanctioned by the Socially Accepted Acting-Your-Age Pseudo-Intellectual Policing Society? Or do you just follow the fads obsessively? Or do you actually decide for yourself what you like and just sort of go with it like you are in fact allowed to do?'
*goes on random cussing streak off-stage*
Ahem. Okay. Sorry.
But seriously. If someone asks me if Stargate Atlantis is the Best Show Ever, I know they probably want to know if I think the writers deserve Emmys or if I think it hits every perfect mark on every existing issue; and no, I don't think any of those things. But I also kind of don't care. I DO think it's the Best Show Ever in terms of the amount of YAY!!! I get from it, and when it does do writerly or issue-y things right that's like an extra extra huge burst of yay which is pretty awesome. And frankly, that's all that matters, to me anyway, right now, while I'm enjoying it.
(Tangent: what is that called? The term has totally escaped me. Isn't there a term for people who live in the moment? Not that I do that in general, but that pretty much described my approach to entertainment...)
I guess, mostly, I'm wondering if there are other people who feel this way? People who like the show, but they feel a little ashamed of liking it because so few of their friends do anymore?
...kind of, ish? I don't necessarily feel ashamed, but it is a bit of a bummer to not be able to share the joy with people I've been used to sharing the joy with. Particularly when a lot of those people are defecting to Supernatural, which I have recently defected away from. *headdesk*
Except that I wouldn't have sex, no questions asked, with anyone.
I wouldn't either, in real life, but I like that meme as a sort of 'in a fantasy world, who would I...' thing. Like, if I answered John Sheppard, I would not be thinking along the lines of, if I bumped into John Sheppard on the street tomorrow and he propositioned me I'd totally tap that. I'd be thinking along the lines of, if I had been Larrin and I'd been necking with John Sheppard after narrowly escaping death by Wraith, I could have thought of better things to do with him than shoot him with a stunner, for God's sake.
I'M RAMBLING AT YOU. I'M SORRY. GAH.