It does have a certain not-fake ring to it. Or maybe it's that it sounds almost fake enough to loop around to real again. POINT BEING: we can work with this.
But you're right, there is this accidental, bumblingly malicious edge to that kid of question when the less enthusiastic people ask it. Why should I ever be asked to quantify my enjoyment of anything? But I kind of even hate it when it gets done by fannish sorts too, BECAUSE THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND. (My least favorite thing is when people try to play the Bones vs. XF game, because while I know why they get stacked up next to each other, Bones is of course a 1 and X-Files I think is maybe a 7 or an 8-- which is a world of difference! Even if the very basic set up is the same [and it really isn't-- they both center around FBI partnerships and solving crimes but Bones is such an ensemble show now and the solving process is structurally very different in the two] because Bones obviously did draw inspiration from XF, you have to believe in the X-Files so much more to make the conspiracy plausible. Somewhere in there I stopped making sense, SO IN CONCLUSION, they are not comparable.)
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Date: 2009-04-25 01:58 am (UTC)But you're right, there is this accidental, bumblingly malicious edge to that kid of question when the less enthusiastic people ask it. Why should I ever be asked to quantify my enjoyment of anything? But I kind of even hate it when it gets done by fannish sorts too, BECAUSE THEY SHOULD UNDERSTAND. (My least favorite thing is when people try to play the Bones vs. XF game, because while I know why they get stacked up next to each other, Bones is of course a 1 and X-Files I think is maybe a 7 or an 8-- which is a world of difference! Even if the very basic set up is the same [and it really isn't-- they both center around FBI partnerships and solving crimes but Bones is such an ensemble show now and the solving process is structurally very different in the two] because Bones obviously did draw inspiration from XF, you have to believe in the X-Files so much more to make the conspiracy plausible. Somewhere in there I stopped making sense, SO IN CONCLUSION, they are not comparable.)
Hee!