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my thoughts on telly, let me show you them
The episode description on my TiVo for tonight's Heroes annoys me. Mostly because of what it does not say, which should be, specifically, in caps and exclamation marks, Nathan and Peter reunite and it is all angst and manly hugging! Do you see, Heroes, what dragging out the reunion is doing to me?
I was having vague thoughts this weekend about, one, how I watch a lot more television than I used to, and that this has a couple of factors - prime among them being that there's just a lot more stuff on that excites me than there was for a few years, but also that it's a lot easier these days to catch up on a show I may have passed over when it began for whatever reason, only to discover later on that it's actually something I like. Also there's the tivo, which makes television watching less scheduled - it's a commitment to say I'm going to watch X show at X time every week, times however many shows I want to watch, and it was hard for me to make that kind of commitment to more than a few shows per week. So new media - which is at the heart of the WGA strike - really has profoundly changed my relationship with television, even as it causes television's future to become increasingly uncertain.
I've also discovered that I think television does romance very, very badly, and that I'm generally just not interested in shows where romance between the main cast is going to be a big thing. There are exceptions - Everwood handled almost ALL of its relationships beautifully, romantic and otherwise; I will also confess to really liking Luke/Lorelei on Gilmore Girls and I was always pulling for them - but there, even, I don't think they ultimately did that relationship WELL. So generally, I just don't want it. I may joke about wanting House and Wilson to make out, but that's also never going to happen, and when it comes to what I see onscreen, I'd really rather it be their strange, complicated friendship, as it is and as it evolves.
Needless to say, I have had and always will have zero interest in Grey's Anatomy.
Which isn't to say I don't love watching relationships, because my favorite shows are all about the relationships, for me - just not romantic ones. The problem with making out is that it's too often telling and not showing; House and Wilson don't show their love for each other in that way, and I find their connection to be all the more compelling; House likes Wilson even though House generally doesn't like anybody, and Wilson likes House for being House, not in spite of it. The NCIS team all love each other like crazy even as they're snarking and sniping and whacking each other on the head. Nathan and Peter were often cruel and hurtful to each other in that way only family can be, and then they'd turn right around and do or say something that so effortlessly showed their unconditional love for each other it would be like a punch to the gut. The Winchesters will happily bicker from morning until night, will fight and throw up walls even as they try to tear the others' down, and saying yo, by the way, I sold my soul for you is how they say I love you, and it's awesome.
In other news, driving home from the grocery store, my car started making suspicious thumping sounds. Could be mostly harmless, could be very bad. I'm supposed to drive up to Oswego on Wednesday, though, which gives me just tomorrow to get it checked out, and I've no idea if my mechanic will even have time to look at it on such short notice. Argh.
I was having vague thoughts this weekend about, one, how I watch a lot more television than I used to, and that this has a couple of factors - prime among them being that there's just a lot more stuff on that excites me than there was for a few years, but also that it's a lot easier these days to catch up on a show I may have passed over when it began for whatever reason, only to discover later on that it's actually something I like. Also there's the tivo, which makes television watching less scheduled - it's a commitment to say I'm going to watch X show at X time every week, times however many shows I want to watch, and it was hard for me to make that kind of commitment to more than a few shows per week. So new media - which is at the heart of the WGA strike - really has profoundly changed my relationship with television, even as it causes television's future to become increasingly uncertain.
I've also discovered that I think television does romance very, very badly, and that I'm generally just not interested in shows where romance between the main cast is going to be a big thing. There are exceptions - Everwood handled almost ALL of its relationships beautifully, romantic and otherwise; I will also confess to really liking Luke/Lorelei on Gilmore Girls and I was always pulling for them - but there, even, I don't think they ultimately did that relationship WELL. So generally, I just don't want it. I may joke about wanting House and Wilson to make out, but that's also never going to happen, and when it comes to what I see onscreen, I'd really rather it be their strange, complicated friendship, as it is and as it evolves.
Needless to say, I have had and always will have zero interest in Grey's Anatomy.
Which isn't to say I don't love watching relationships, because my favorite shows are all about the relationships, for me - just not romantic ones. The problem with making out is that it's too often telling and not showing; House and Wilson don't show their love for each other in that way, and I find their connection to be all the more compelling; House likes Wilson even though House generally doesn't like anybody, and Wilson likes House for being House, not in spite of it. The NCIS team all love each other like crazy even as they're snarking and sniping and whacking each other on the head. Nathan and Peter were often cruel and hurtful to each other in that way only family can be, and then they'd turn right around and do or say something that so effortlessly showed their unconditional love for each other it would be like a punch to the gut. The Winchesters will happily bicker from morning until night, will fight and throw up walls even as they try to tear the others' down, and saying yo, by the way, I sold my soul for you is how they say I love you, and it's awesome.
In other news, driving home from the grocery store, my car started making suspicious thumping sounds. Could be mostly harmless, could be very bad. I'm supposed to drive up to Oswego on Wednesday, though, which gives me just tomorrow to get it checked out, and I've no idea if my mechanic will even have time to look at it on such short notice. Argh.
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