aria: ([community] vampire abed)
valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2011-10-02 05:02 pm

news from television land

i. My mother, on Community: "So when are Troy and Abed actually going to start dating?" This from the woman who loves both Life on Mars and White Collar, but thinks that Sam/Gene and the OT3 are far-fetched notions. Hey, Community writers! My het-centric mum thinks it should be canon Troy/Abed time!

ii. After ... roughly six years of a quiet internal will-I-won't-I and laughing at the fandom from afar, I ... appear to be watching Supernatural. I am watching it in a way where I am vetting episodes via wiki summary, and mostly watching the arc-plot stuff or the episodes with guest stars I like, and it is entirely possible that I will hit "Can't do this, too many dead women," sooner rather than later but on the other hand I watched all of s1 Game of Thrones. In any case, this television viewing brought to you by Dragon*Con, or more specifically Becca and Pali's two-hour late-night pitch about a show of, yeah, problematic stuff, but also codependency and moral ambiguity and other stupid things I love. And also Mark Sheppard's face. MARK SHEPPARD, WHY DO I HAVE TO WAIT SO MANY SEASONS FOR YOUR FACE.

iii. I'm not actually sure I have a third television thing! But it seems asymmetrical otherwise. Eh, it's okay, I should be devoting more energy to writing than to watching things anyway.
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[personal profile] lowkey 2011-10-02 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I watched, maybe four episodes of Supernatural's first season, but I have a stupidstupidstupid man crush on Misha Collins. So I'm trapped in this "will he/won't he" situation where I want to get to the later seasons, once he and MARK SHEPPARD show up... but there's also the fact that there are so many episodes between here and there.

Your approach sounds best.
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[personal profile] lowkey 2011-10-03 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! I'm totally glad that someone else has the same problem.

Your approach sounds like the best way to handle the situation. I've heard that the first season is mostly episodic, monster of the week material. So hey! What could go wrong?