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trinityvixen) wrote2008-05-29 10:53 am
trinityvixen) wrote2008-05-29 10:53 am
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Amidst my shame for having had ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ivy03's DVDs forever, I started to watch the second season of Supernatural, so far to greater success than my trip through the first one. I maintain that the ending of the first season was damn funny, yet I was still pulled into the drama of the season opener that built on it. Well done, show. It helps to conference with viridian about these things, too.
viridian: Dude, how the hell did you get through season 1?
me: Um, I just sorta ignored it, mostly. I'm on the third episode of season 2 and I'm liking it better.
viridian: Because we're 4 episodes from the end and there are so many well-known guest stars that I am distracted to death.
me: Whoa, speaking of distracting guest stars: Amber Benson! It turns out she's not actually as terrible an actress as "Buffy" and "Gryphon" made her seem. Of course, she's playing a vampire. GET IT? IN JOKE! GET IT?
viridian: And parts of it are just bad.
me: Yeah, but I stayed for the snark from Dumbfuck. And the parts when he takes his shirt off.
viridian: Oh man, in season 3? There are feminist rants about how often he calls someone a bitch. I was rolling my eyes so hard at the fandom.
me: He doesn't know English. He's Canadian.
viridian: This fandom is the least sane ever. They break all the taboos: incest, real person slash...and they will defend both of those to the death as being PRACTICALLY CANON. So I say if Dean wants to say "bitch" 4394834242 times a season that still puts him a step ahead of most of his fans on the offensiveness scale.
me: I can tolerate "bitch." I say it all the time, too. And like me, Dumbfuck is a total woman. He's the wife on the show. The beaten, submissive one. Who just wants to love everyone.
me: And who is therefore the bitch.
viridian: Maybe that's why I'm okay with him calling people bitches. You're allowed to use the word freely if you are one.
me: From my impression of this show? Everyone knows Daddy W. I'm beginning to think that either he made them all his bitches, too or else he just pimped Dean out. A LOT.
me: Shoot me? Because I am starting to find Dumbfuck really hot.
viridian: LOL if Dumbfuck is Jensen Ackles, I'm right there with you.
me: Who else would "Dumbfuck" be? Stupid Stupor-natural!
viridian: He was hot on fucking Smallville, too. He's just dumb.
me: That's why we call him Dumbfuck.
viridian: He went to the Keanu Reeves University of Whoa.
viridian: But I'm glad you have joined me in finding him kinda hot because now we can mock each other.
me: I mock me enough on this one.
viridian: For some reason SPN fandom likes Ugly better.
me: That's Fugly, thank you.
viridian: Dude looks like a sheepdog.
me: His hair IS SO BAD. I can't look at him without laughing. The show is like "OMG DRAMA" and they cut to Sam and I giggle myself to death.
viridian: I told hslayer he needed a haircut because his hair was starting to turn out at the ends like Sam's
me: Man, if you told me that, I'd shave mine off. THE HORROR.
me: The words "OMG NO" need to be appended to every picture of Fugly and his stupid hair.
Through completely legal means (I swear I live in Canada), I have seen BSG 4.08 "Sina Qua Non," which will air in this country on Friday. My reactions are basically "Um?" Most of the episodes this season have had a profound "WTF!?!" level to them, usually because they startle me with the awesome or at least the harshness. I have disliked a lot of developments--Cally's death, Tory's being whored out, Tigh and Six getting physical THAT WAY--but on the whole, I've swallowed my objections in the name of the great things that would happen immediately after. Yay show!
But this? This is not happening. I'm fairly sure that everything that happens in this episode is going to be revealed as an alternate universe episode or something. Every bad fanfic decision that could be made about any character, any development is made. And, godsdamnit, Romo Lambkin's return should have been for more awesome reasons than this. Worse, LELAND ADAMA IS PRESIDENT. I knew this was in the offing the second he jumped into the government. I knew it the SECOND he took a quorum post and started butting heads with Roslin. Where is frakkin' Baltar when you need him? He said, HE SAID, last season, to the Chief that the fleet would never be run by someone whose last name wasn't Adama. Where is Baltar so his cynical non-religious genius can be appreciated? I hope the Chief makes an issue of this.
What puzzles me is that awards for which BSG wanted to be nominated all picked performances out of this one. I didn't see too many overtly fabulous performances other than the one put in by Lee Adama's hair. Dude looks like he walked off the set of a Pantene commercial where his fluffy, shiny, sleek hair got expertly blown around. What the F? Remember your stupid faux-hawk in the miniseries, Lee? I won't forget that now that you seem to have discovered conditioner. I WON'T.
ivy03's DVDs forever, I started to watch the second season of Supernatural, so far to greater success than my trip through the first one. I maintain that the ending of the first season was damn funny, yet I was still pulled into the drama of the season opener that built on it. Well done, show. It helps to conference with viridian about these things, too.viridian: Dude, how the hell did you get through season 1?me: Um, I just sorta ignored it, mostly. I'm on the third episode of season 2 and I'm liking it better.
viridian: Because we're 4 episodes from the end and there are so many well-known guest stars that I am distracted to death. me: Whoa, speaking of distracting guest stars: Amber Benson! It turns out she's not actually as terrible an actress as "Buffy" and "Gryphon" made her seem. Of course, she's playing a vampire. GET IT? IN JOKE! GET IT?
viridian: And parts of it are just bad.me: Yeah, but I stayed for the snark from Dumbfuck. And the parts when he takes his shirt off.
viridian: Oh man, in season 3? There are feminist rants about how often he calls someone a bitch. I was rolling my eyes so hard at the fandom.me: He doesn't know English. He's Canadian.
viridian: This fandom is the least sane ever. They break all the taboos: incest, real person slash...and they will defend both of those to the death as being PRACTICALLY CANON. So I say if Dean wants to say "bitch" 4394834242 times a season that still puts him a step ahead of most of his fans on the offensiveness scale.me: I can tolerate "bitch." I say it all the time, too. And like me, Dumbfuck is a total woman. He's the wife on the show. The beaten, submissive one. Who just wants to love everyone.
me: And who is therefore the bitch.
viridian: Maybe that's why I'm okay with him calling people bitches. You're allowed to use the word freely if you are one.me: From my impression of this show? Everyone knows Daddy W. I'm beginning to think that either he made them all his bitches, too or else he just pimped Dean out. A LOT.
me: Shoot me? Because I am starting to find Dumbfuck really hot.
viridian: LOL if Dumbfuck is Jensen Ackles, I'm right there with you.me: Who else would "Dumbfuck" be? Stupid Stupor-natural!
viridian: He was hot on fucking Smallville, too. He's just dumb.me: That's why we call him Dumbfuck.
viridian: He went to the Keanu Reeves University of Whoa.viridian: But I'm glad you have joined me in finding him kinda hot because now we can mock each other.me: I mock me enough on this one.
viridian: For some reason SPN fandom likes Ugly better.me: That's Fugly, thank you.
viridian: Dude looks like a sheepdog.me: His hair IS SO BAD. I can't look at him without laughing. The show is like "OMG DRAMA" and they cut to Sam and I giggle myself to death.
viridian: I told hslayer he needed a haircut because his hair was starting to turn out at the ends like Sam'sme: Man, if you told me that, I'd shave mine off. THE HORROR.
me: The words "OMG NO" need to be appended to every picture of Fugly and his stupid hair.
Through completely legal means (I swear I live in Canada), I have seen BSG 4.08 "Sina Qua Non," which will air in this country on Friday. My reactions are basically "Um?" Most of the episodes this season have had a profound "WTF!?!" level to them, usually because they startle me with the awesome or at least the harshness. I have disliked a lot of developments--Cally's death, Tory's being whored out, Tigh and Six getting physical THAT WAY--but on the whole, I've swallowed my objections in the name of the great things that would happen immediately after. Yay show!
But this? This is not happening. I'm fairly sure that everything that happens in this episode is going to be revealed as an alternate universe episode or something. Every bad fanfic decision that could be made about any character, any development is made. And, godsdamnit, Romo Lambkin's return should have been for more awesome reasons than this. Worse, LELAND ADAMA IS PRESIDENT. I knew this was in the offing the second he jumped into the government. I knew it the SECOND he took a quorum post and started butting heads with Roslin. Where is frakkin' Baltar when you need him? He said, HE SAID, last season, to the Chief that the fleet would never be run by someone whose last name wasn't Adama. Where is Baltar so his cynical non-religious genius can be appreciated? I hope the Chief makes an issue of this.
What puzzles me is that awards for which BSG wanted to be nominated all picked performances out of this one. I didn't see too many overtly fabulous performances other than the one put in by Lee Adama's hair. Dude looks like he walked off the set of a Pantene commercial where his fluffy, shiny, sleek hair got expertly blown around. What the F? Remember your stupid faux-hawk in the miniseries, Lee? I won't forget that now that you seem to have discovered conditioner. I WON'T.
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Did you watch the season 1 outtakes? Hilarious!
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And yes, I read your chat posts. They always amuse the hell out of me. :)
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Seriously, SPN is the only fandom I've ever been involved in, so I have no comparision as to its craziness. Are we crazy? Really? Wow, I feel all rebellious now. Fuck it. I'm taking a SMOKE BREAK!
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The impression I get, though, is that SPN fandom is full of ladies squeeing and imagining the two stars having sex with each other, in and out of character. Rest assured, this is still better than 99.99999% of things I hear about other fandoms (like Harry Potter ::shudder::).
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(Anonymous) 2008-05-30 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)**shakes a fist**
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