Ten Shows You Just Don't Get
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Ten Shows You Just Don't Get meme...
I thought it would be fun to do a meme on '10 shows your flist loves but you do not.' They could be shows you've seen or haven't and have no desire to check out.
Note: This is obviously not to denigrate the taste of anyone who loves these.
1. Prison Break. I found the lead extremely unattractive and that is about all that would lure me into watching a show set in a male prison. Clearly I did not have those issues with watching Cell Block H or whatever that Australian show set in a women's prison was called. I really liked that one.
2. Entourage. I just find nothing as uninteresting as Hollywood naval gazing and celebrating completely pointless people who look a bit odd is not much of a lure. I also really find it hard to be interested in or enjoy shows where the entire central cast are men.
3. Sex and the City. I saw 20 minutes of this. Rarely have I hated a group of people so quickly in 20 minutes. I would like them all to spontaneously combust in the film.
4. Friday Night Lights. I am sure it is excellent and so many people love it. But it's got football. And the coach from where I taught last really liked it and that's not a recommendation.
5. The O.C. Dangermousie mentioned wanting to see people with pitchforks at the gates of this community. Yes! Communism could use this as a recruitment video.
6. House. I like Hugh Laurie but I... I know House will always be right! And grouch! And then there'll be a scene where he crosses line and endangers his career!
7. Mad Men. I don't know...I just don't want to watch people being rather horrible in a period which was not exactly a high point for women.
8. Any police procedural show. All of them.
9. Robin Hood. Well, there aren't too many people on my list who liked this, though some struggled manfully though it. Robin looks like a particularly uncharismatic ferret and I ended up rooting for Guy of Gisbourne.
10. What not to Wear. (UK) I don't like reality TV much, but this is the one I loathe the most. I find the point, which is two rather frumpy and horrible women taking people who are often quite comfortable with themselves, belittling them, and then sticking them in clothes which might look better but which they are often patently less comfortable wearing, rather nasty.
Also! I am so thrilled with Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize. I have loved everything I've read of hers and her 'Canopus in Argos' series is hands down, I think, the most brilliant science fiction ever written.
dangermousieTen Shows You Just Don't Get meme...
I thought it would be fun to do a meme on '10 shows your flist loves but you do not.' They could be shows you've seen or haven't and have no desire to check out.
Note: This is obviously not to denigrate the taste of anyone who loves these.
1. Prison Break. I found the lead extremely unattractive and that is about all that would lure me into watching a show set in a male prison. Clearly I did not have those issues with watching Cell Block H or whatever that Australian show set in a women's prison was called. I really liked that one.
2. Entourage. I just find nothing as uninteresting as Hollywood naval gazing and celebrating completely pointless people who look a bit odd is not much of a lure. I also really find it hard to be interested in or enjoy shows where the entire central cast are men.
3. Sex and the City. I saw 20 minutes of this. Rarely have I hated a group of people so quickly in 20 minutes. I would like them all to spontaneously combust in the film.
4. Friday Night Lights. I am sure it is excellent and so many people love it. But it's got football. And the coach from where I taught last really liked it and that's not a recommendation.
5. The O.C. Dangermousie mentioned wanting to see people with pitchforks at the gates of this community. Yes! Communism could use this as a recruitment video.
6. House. I like Hugh Laurie but I... I know House will always be right! And grouch! And then there'll be a scene where he crosses line and endangers his career!
7. Mad Men. I don't know...I just don't want to watch people being rather horrible in a period which was not exactly a high point for women.
8. Any police procedural show. All of them.
9. Robin Hood. Well, there aren't too many people on my list who liked this, though some struggled manfully though it. Robin looks like a particularly uncharismatic ferret and I ended up rooting for Guy of Gisbourne.
10. What not to Wear. (UK) I don't like reality TV much, but this is the one I loathe the most. I find the point, which is two rather frumpy and horrible women taking people who are often quite comfortable with themselves, belittling them, and then sticking them in clothes which might look better but which they are often patently less comfortable wearing, rather nasty.
Also! I am so thrilled with Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize. I have loved everything I've read of hers and her 'Canopus in Argos' series is hands down, I think, the most brilliant science fiction ever written.
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Date: 2007-10-12 05:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-12 06:03 am (UTC)...
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Is it humanly possible to be crueler to some poor young actor than you just were?
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Date: 2007-10-12 08:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-12 08:20 pm (UTC)In other RH news, the first Robin of Sherwood DVD is on its way to me from Netflix.
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Date: 2007-10-12 08:57 pm (UTC)I wish that they'd done different casting in the current Robin Hood. It still wouldn't save the show from terrible writing, horrific female outfits, and cheap, underpopulated sets but it would help. I love Richard Armitage and he's the best thing about the show (it's only redeeming point, IMO) but I feel a Robin Hood where I am rooting for the bad guys has pretty much failed in its purpose. *sigh*