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things TV can stop teaching us
May. 16th, 2008 03:50 pmI started this list a while back, but I know I'm missing some big ones (in fact, someone on my flist pointed out a good one a couple days ago; was it you?). But here are some things TV really likes to teach us, over and over, and it's time for us to let TV know we got it now. For example.
Fugu. Stop explaining it to us; we know how it works now.
We can identify both a caduceus and an ouroboros.
We've got a handle on the gum disease known as gingivitis.
There are adjuncts to "things TV can stop teaching us" which is "things TV can stop doing," like:
The obvious hospital show rule: It's not lupus. (It is, however, acute intermittent porphyria, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or Wilson's Disease...)
It's time to stop naming your heroes Jack.
The pedophile did it.
And more? I'm missing an important one off the first list (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
projectjulie, what was it???) and there's obviously a bunch more for the second list. Spit 'em!
//
Elsewhere it's 101 degrees and after schlepping around in my car all afternoon I am now in my air-conditioned bedroom to respond to e-mails and eventually watch a Hamlet or two.
This spring TV season is really spoiling me with all my favorite shows managing to be on the air at the same time -- thank you, strike. This year I'm watching HIMYM, Bones, NCIS, BSG and Doctor Who, with the occasional Office, and frequently 30 Rock and Scrubs. I also just mainlined the first half of S4 of Top Chef (yay!).
And it's springtime, with promises of a pretty decent summer season too. The upfronts don't look particularly enthralling for next year (Life on Mars: US!, um, WTF, you make Viva Laughlin look like a good remake) -- with the exception of the return of The Electric Company -- but then, I can't think about anything beyond the first week in August right now.
I was also going to say something about HBO's "Recount," which is on... next week? But now I fear it'll actually get me into a political argument about this year's election and I am so not feeling that right now.
( spoilers for Doctor Who, Bones, HIMYM, Top Chef )
ALSO. Thank you to everyone who went to the trouble of reading and commenting on my Doctor/Master fic. I am feeling much less whiny and in fact full of real glee that people actually read this complicated, difficult story. I know it's not the sort of thing that can be easily responded to with an "awesome!" as it's NOT, necessarily, but it's definitely something, and you people have helped me figure that out and come to terms with it, and with my niche in fandom, etc. So anyway, here it is with all its flaws. It's not really slash, not really kinky, no sex, some emo power play, and first-person-Doctorpov with Simm!Master in that missing TSoD year. Very niche, very skippable for most. And the truth is there's lots of stuff, in this and other fandoms, that I skip too, all the time.
Fugu. Stop explaining it to us; we know how it works now.
We can identify both a caduceus and an ouroboros.
We've got a handle on the gum disease known as gingivitis.
There are adjuncts to "things TV can stop teaching us" which is "things TV can stop doing," like:
The obvious hospital show rule: It's not lupus. (It is, however, acute intermittent porphyria, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, or Wilson's Disease...)
It's time to stop naming your heroes Jack.
The pedophile did it.
And more? I'm missing an important one off the first list (
projectjulie, what was it???) and there's obviously a bunch more for the second list. Spit 'em!//
Elsewhere it's 101 degrees and after schlepping around in my car all afternoon I am now in my air-conditioned bedroom to respond to e-mails and eventually watch a Hamlet or two.
This spring TV season is really spoiling me with all my favorite shows managing to be on the air at the same time -- thank you, strike. This year I'm watching HIMYM, Bones, NCIS, BSG and Doctor Who, with the occasional Office, and frequently 30 Rock and Scrubs. I also just mainlined the first half of S4 of Top Chef (yay!).
And it's springtime, with promises of a pretty decent summer season too. The upfronts don't look particularly enthralling for next year (Life on Mars: US!, um, WTF, you make Viva Laughlin look like a good remake) -- with the exception of the return of The Electric Company -- but then, I can't think about anything beyond the first week in August right now.
I was also going to say something about HBO's "Recount," which is on... next week? But now I fear it'll actually get me into a political argument about this year's election and I am so not feeling that right now.
( spoilers for Doctor Who, Bones, HIMYM, Top Chef )
ALSO. Thank you to everyone who went to the trouble of reading and commenting on my Doctor/Master fic. I am feeling much less whiny and in fact full of real glee that people actually read this complicated, difficult story. I know it's not the sort of thing that can be easily responded to with an "awesome!" as it's NOT, necessarily, but it's definitely something, and you people have helped me figure that out and come to terms with it, and with my niche in fandom, etc. So anyway, here it is with all its flaws. It's not really slash, not really kinky, no sex, some emo power play, and first-person-Doctorpov with Simm!Master in that missing TSoD year. Very niche, very skippable for most. And the truth is there's lots of stuff, in this and other fandoms, that I skip too, all the time.
