news from television land

[aria]

i. My mother, on Community: "So when are Troy and Abed actually going to start dating?" This from the woman who loves both Life on Mars and White Collar, but thinks that Sam/Gene and the OT3 are far-fetched notions. Hey, Community writers! My het-centric mum thinks it should be canon Troy/Abed time!

ii. After ... roughly six years of a quiet internal will-I-won't-I and laughing at the fandom from afar, I ... appear to be watching Supernatural. I am watching it in a way where I am vetting episodes via wiki summary, and mostly watching the arc-plot stuff or the episodes with guest stars I like, and it is entirely possible that I will hit "Can't do this, too many dead women," sooner rather than later but on the other hand I watched all of s1 Game of Thrones. In any case, this television viewing brought to you by Dragon*Con, or more specifically Becca and Pali's two-hour late-night pitch about a show of, yeah, problematic stuff, but also codependency and moral ambiguity and other stupid things I love. And also Mark Sheppard's face. MARK SHEPPARD, WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT SO MANY SEASONS FOR YOUR FACE.

iii. I'm not actually sure I have a third television thing! But it seems asymmetrical otherwise. Eh, it's okay, I should be devoting more energy to writing than to watching things anyway.

Comments

[lowkey]

I watched, maybe four episodes of Supernatural's first season, but I have a stupidstupidstupid man crush on Misha Collins. So I'm trapped in this "will he/won't he" situation where I want to get to the later seasons, once he and MARK SHEPPARD show up... but there's also the fact that there are so many episodes between here and there.

Your approach sounds best.

[rusty_halo]

Heh, I did something similar with SPN. I was horrified from afar by the crazy fandom and all the sexism I kept hearing about. Then I caught the S1 finale in repeats and watched solely to mock, and particularly expecting to loathe Dean Winchester...

And yeah, ended up mainlining the entire series (~100 episodes at that point) in 12 days, and 1.5 year later am still head over heels for Dean. :) :) :)

Still, the show is incredibly problematic, and I can't hold it against anyone for deciding to give up on it. But for me there is no other show that's reached this level of hitting so many of my narrative and character kinks.

Anyway, how far in are you? Don't skip 1x09, 1x12, 1x16, 1x18, or 1x20-22. ;)

[tei]

I've been having the same kind of thing with Supernatural in that I really, really want to be a proper Misha Collins fangirl. Like, he is my only legitimate lasting actorcrush, and I've NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN HIM ACT, besides random clips of Castiel bits on youtube. But. Like. HE RELOCATED A TREE. IN THE MIDDLE OF L.A. I DON'T EVEN. Sooo a while ago I watched the pilot of Supernatural? And found it... kind of dull. Not actually boring, but dull as in... I'm very sensitive to the colour scheme that films use, and with Supernatural I just found myself going OH MY GOD CAN THERE PLEASE BE DAYLIGHT? OR AT LEAST A BRIGHT LIGHTBULB? I NEED A SUN LAMP JUST TO WATCH THIS SHOW. (Also, I kind of took an immediate dislike to Sam, which is a problem 'cuz he's kind of around a lot.

Then again, Thor has basically cured me of any lingering distaste I may once have had for incest. Actually, I guess most of that was probably purged by bandom. So theoretically, if I learned to like Sam, I could do SPN.

So, I may do a Highlander-esque watch where, instead of the Methos bits, I watch the Castiel bits. I don't know when. Maybe Christmas break. Buuuut I look forward to your SPN updates, if you choose to do them!

[minkhollow]

Regarding Mark Sheppard: He's also in Warehouse 13 and you don't have to wait nearly as long! Granted, he's not in much, but rumor by way of S2 DVD extras is that he'll be back. (I'll be interested to see how they do that.)
And it's a less problematic show in general. I mean, it has its WTF moments (when they flub continuity they flub it big-time, and there's not nearly enough of Leena, and they pulled an Evil Bisexual, and I really really hope they're not pulling an Evil Gay Guy this season...), but it is full of Bechdel passing and other assorted win.

[ste_noni]

I avoided SPN for years for all the reasons you mention. Then I started watching last Jan (because I too MUST watch it all IN ORDER!) and um, now I'm in love. The codependency between the brothers is like really good crack.

So, does this mean you might be writing SPN-fic sometime soon?

[gehayi]

So--most important question in fandom--are you a Dean girl or a Sam girl?

[sentientcitizen]

You're watching the John Winchester Is An Asshole Show (With Bonus Dead Women)! I will be very excited to hear your thoughts on it as you watch on.