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things TV can stop teaching us
I 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!
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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.
Bones! Um, way to make an average episode into a HOLY CRAP.
HIMYM was rocking my socks till this last ep, which was just weak all around, even if it's not Britney's fault. That and I've been reading fic this week, so anything that's not about Barney/Robin is so weird! But aside from that last ep, I actually liked the two-minute date, loved the breakup with Barney (oh, ow, so good, how will you play out, thing?!), love Robin so much it makes me dance a Canadian dance.
Top Chef! OH I love Stephanie, I LOVE her, I really hope she wins. If not my money's on Richard, though I can see either Stephanie vs. Dale or Stephanie/Richard/Dale as the final three -- Dale is just the sort of talented villain people like to keep around. I also love Antonia and would like her in the final four. Sad about Lisa (though she was not the best chef and a little bitchy) and sad about Mark, and Jen, and Nikki. I am so OVER Andrew and Spike, but now Andrew's gone so we can all breathe a collective sigh.
Richard! Stephanie! Two great chefs that taste great together! Antonia: ALSO AWESOME! Dale -- too obnoxious to leave before the final two! Yargh.
And Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Daughter," listen. I mean, I'm in no position to judge whether it was empirically "good," because mostly it was a one-hook episode and was built more to set up for later than to be enjoyable now.
And I have a hard time with Jenny (though I thought she was both adorable and badass in the ep) because I have a full-on emotional squick for diluting my heroes/there can be only ONE TIME LORD/I see the elements in place for an upcoming ep where the Doctor never existed, and that scares the CRAP outta me.
I was fine with the ep right up until the very end (and yes, Tennant acted his little face off, but that's not the point) when she sets out for the universe, because it hits that exact emotional squick. And then the idea that there will somehow be a universe without the Doctor in it really, really scares me. I think I mentioned this once, in a conversation regarding Richard Bach's book "One." "One" is a sequel to "The Bridge Across Forever" which is a (new agey, fine!) book about how two soulmates found each other and fell in love. Then "One," the sequel, creates a universe where the two never met, and we see how hollow their lives are without one another. And I just... wanted to crawl out of my skin. Like,livii asked last week what we would do if we were trapped in a repeating time loop, and even though that's not NEARLY as triggering I was freakin' out anyway. (livii, my first answer is to leave myself notes, like Data did in that TNG ep. I'd also call people who were physically far away from wherever I was and ask them to check in with me every hour/every day so eventually I can find out how many days I've missed, etc)
Which is to say: time travel is my love, my darling, my kryptonite, my Achilles' heel. And I am very very askeert for the rest of this season's Who.
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.
Bones! Um, way to make an average episode into a HOLY CRAP.
HIMYM was rocking my socks till this last ep, which was just weak all around, even if it's not Britney's fault. That and I've been reading fic this week, so anything that's not about Barney/Robin is so weird! But aside from that last ep, I actually liked the two-minute date, loved the breakup with Barney (oh, ow, so good, how will you play out, thing?!), love Robin so much it makes me dance a Canadian dance.
Top Chef! OH I love Stephanie, I LOVE her, I really hope she wins. If not my money's on Richard, though I can see either Stephanie vs. Dale or Stephanie/Richard/Dale as the final three -- Dale is just the sort of talented villain people like to keep around. I also love Antonia and would like her in the final four. Sad about Lisa (though she was not the best chef and a little bitchy) and sad about Mark, and Jen, and Nikki. I am so OVER Andrew and Spike, but now Andrew's gone so we can all breathe a collective sigh.
Richard! Stephanie! Two great chefs that taste great together! Antonia: ALSO AWESOME! Dale -- too obnoxious to leave before the final two! Yargh.
And Doctor Who, "The Doctor's Daughter," listen. I mean, I'm in no position to judge whether it was empirically "good," because mostly it was a one-hook episode and was built more to set up for later than to be enjoyable now.
And I have a hard time with Jenny (though I thought she was both adorable and badass in the ep) because I have a full-on emotional squick for diluting my heroes/there can be only ONE TIME LORD/I see the elements in place for an upcoming ep where the Doctor never existed, and that scares the CRAP outta me.
I was fine with the ep right up until the very end (and yes, Tennant acted his little face off, but that's not the point) when she sets out for the universe, because it hits that exact emotional squick. And then the idea that there will somehow be a universe without the Doctor in it really, really scares me. I think I mentioned this once, in a conversation regarding Richard Bach's book "One." "One" is a sequel to "The Bridge Across Forever" which is a (new agey, fine!) book about how two soulmates found each other and fell in love. Then "One," the sequel, creates a universe where the two never met, and we see how hollow their lives are without one another. And I just... wanted to crawl out of my skin. Like,
livii asked last week what we would do if we were trapped in a repeating time loop, and even though that's not NEARLY as triggering I was freakin' out anyway. (livii, my first answer is to leave myself notes, like Data did in that TNG ep. I'd also call people who were physically far away from wherever I was and ask them to check in with me every hour/every day so eventually I can find out how many days I've missed, etc)Which is to say: time travel is my love, my darling, my kryptonite, my Achilles' heel. And I am very very askeert for the rest of this season's Who.
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.
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Dale is obviously horrible to work with, but I kind of like him. He reminds me of myself when I was younger and had a chip on my shoulder and a lot to prove. (I like Lisa too for the same reason.) Plus his food looks delicious.
Stephanie and Richard were so adorable in the wedding episode. Aww!
PS. You're never going to call me, are you?
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