FOR THE RECORD: last time you recc'd something to me, I DID END UP WATCHING IT. FOR REAL? I FIND THIS ASTONISHING.
Ah, I see what you mean about the distinction. If I ever get like that, PLEASE TELL ME RIGHT AWAY! My worst fear is that I secretly alienate people or annoy them with my incessant babbling. Which actually is a notion that, in and of itself, seems really strange to me because why should people even care???? IDK I think I'm just paranoid though and have a tendency to interpret completely normal things as passive aggression. BUT BACK TO THE TOPIC AT HAND! I don't get how people turn something so lovely and fun into something so stressful and antagonizing. Why do you need to pimp your show like a fanatical, scary, WATCH THIS OR I'LL CUT YOU or DON'T WATCH THIS AND YOU'RE DEAD TO ME kind of a way? Yes, you want your friends to watch and love what you watch and love, but nine times out of ten, your obnoxiousness WILL NOT WORK. So just go out and make new friends in your other fandoms!
Speaking of the FNL situation, I was just thinking back, and I think I definitely justified my initial ~rebellion~ with the fact that everyone was telling me that I'd love it so much and it's so amazing and I was all "WTF I HATE ALL THE THINGS ITS ABOUT WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO CONVINCE ME THAT I'LL LOVE IT." Eventually I learned my lesson -- that it was not only amazing and wonderful and perfect, but that I actually could relate to it in ways I never thought I was able to -- but I did that on my own (basically because it was $20 at Target. SO THANKS TARGET, I OWE YA ONE!) Not because of people telling me I'd go apeshit for it. So moral of the story is that...Maybe I do hate that stuff after all! Man, all this psychology behind the fandom is giving me a headache...
And I think that FNL anecdote definitely applies to XF and people who don't watch it because of personal or irrational or completely rational biases against it. (Which some people actually have? WHO KNEW.)
because telling someone that show that started last season is great is totally different from telling someone they should watch, like, two hundred incredible hours of television. So true! Exceeeeept, there are definitely instances where I love the fact that I have seven seasons ahead of me because I can stretch it out and have that feeling of watching something for the first time go on and on and on. WHICH IS WHY I CAN'T WAIT TIL TWW. And why I'm loving the XF re-watch! (which I increasingly want to end after Requiem. I don't want to leave it with any negativity toward the show or characters D:)
To make this already insanely long comment even longer: did I tell you I started my FNL re-watch with a friend from my program? She hasn't seen it before and our new Thursday night ritual is The Office, 30 Rock, two episodes of FNL. SO. FLIPPIN. GOOD. Always.
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Date: 2008-11-21 12:08 am (UTC)FOR REAL? I FIND THIS ASTONISHING.
Ah, I see what you mean about the distinction. If I ever get like that, PLEASE TELL ME RIGHT AWAY! My worst fear is that I secretly alienate people or annoy them with my incessant babbling. Which actually is a notion that, in and of itself, seems really strange to me because why should people even care???? IDK I think I'm just paranoid though and have a tendency to interpret completely normal things as passive aggression. BUT BACK TO THE TOPIC AT HAND! I don't get how people turn something so lovely and fun into something so stressful and antagonizing. Why do you need to pimp your show like a fanatical, scary, WATCH THIS OR I'LL CUT YOU or DON'T WATCH THIS AND YOU'RE DEAD TO ME kind of a way? Yes, you want your friends to watch and love what you watch and love, but nine times out of ten, your obnoxiousness WILL NOT WORK. So just go out and make new friends in your other fandoms!
Speaking of the FNL situation, I was just thinking back, and I think I definitely justified my initial ~rebellion~ with the fact that everyone was telling me that I'd love it so much and it's so amazing and I was all "WTF I HATE ALL THE THINGS ITS ABOUT WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO CONVINCE ME THAT I'LL LOVE IT." Eventually I learned my lesson -- that it was not only amazing and wonderful and perfect, but that I actually could relate to it in ways I never thought I was able to -- but I did that on my own (basically because it was $20 at Target. SO THANKS TARGET, I OWE YA ONE!) Not because of people telling me I'd go apeshit for it. So moral of the story is that...Maybe I do hate that stuff after all! Man, all this psychology behind the fandom is giving me a headache...
And I think that FNL anecdote definitely applies to XF and people who don't watch it because of personal or irrational or completely rational biases against it. (Which some people actually have? WHO KNEW.)
because telling someone that show that started last season is great is totally different from telling someone they should watch, like, two hundred incredible hours of television.
So true! Exceeeeept, there are definitely instances where I love the fact that I have seven seasons ahead of me because I can stretch it out and have that feeling of watching something for the first time go on and on and on. WHICH IS WHY I CAN'T WAIT TIL TWW. And why I'm loving the XF re-watch! (which I increasingly want to end after Requiem. I don't want to leave it with any negativity toward the show or characters D:)
To make this already insanely long comment even longer: did I tell you I started my FNL re-watch with a friend from my program? She hasn't seen it before and our new Thursday night ritual is The Office, 30 Rock, two episodes of FNL. SO. FLIPPIN. GOOD. Always.