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Gratitude and assorted squees
Jan. 30th, 2005 09:34 pmBack from weekend with the APs and very tired, but in high spirits due to a couple of things.
1) I got a gift from an anonymous LJ fairy - six months. Thank you, oh unknown benefactor! I promise to help you escape any number of English (or for that matter, Bavarian) policemen if you turn up at my doorstep and reveal yourself to be a scary ex-con whom I met years ago.
2) Two Sparkys nominations for yours truly. I don't expect to win, given the competition, but am very thrilled nonetheless, especially that "Ghost in the Machine" made it. Having neglected Farscape somewhat recently, I feel propelled to make up for it. See below.
3) I'm also working on a theory of how falling for a show resembles falling in love. You know, sometimes, it's the "hm, could be interesting, though this guy has some habits which annoy... wait... that was really...wow... never mind, I'm in love!" kind. (I.e. the naturalistic model.) Sometimes we go by the romantic comedy model: "THAT ONE? With the freaky... and the bloody... no way!" But your friends devilishly keep throwing the two of you together, and following tradition, the blinders fall from your eyes, and you realise you were made for each other. (And possibly each other's divorce lawyers.) And finally, rarely, there is the Utterly Romantic Model which sweeps you of your feet in a burst of breathless delight. Love at first sight. In fiction, this traditionally ends badly, and sometimes in fandom, too, because the bitterness when the fen in question feel disenchanted is much worse. But very rarely, the love stays, and one still remembers the rapture years later, upon rediscovering theguy show on DVD.
Personally, I've had all types of relationships with my shows. Model A was me and Babylon 5, for example, or me and BtVS. (I had the misfortune of seeing Teacher's Pet first, which isn't that a great an intro, and so the Buffy love took a while.) Model B was me and Highlander, and me and Farscape. Model C was me and Firefly, me and American Gothic, and now me and the new Battlestar Galactica. These three have in common that they managed to start captivating, intelligently and intriguing and in-depth right away, and never missed a beat as they went on. Of course, two of them have also in common that they got cancelled after one season (not nearly a full season in FF's case, damm it!) , and I hope, hope, hope, this won't be the case with the newest love of my fannish life, the splendid, wonderful BSG, present version. Since sharing the enthusiasm is what fannish love is for, here are two reviews of the episode most recently broadcast in the US, Acts of Contrition.
4) In gratitude to my anonymous benefector, and because I feel so hyper anyway, I offer to write raves for you. Prefered subjects of choice would be Farscape, Blake's 7 (got my season 2 DVDs, yay!), Ron Moore (praise will cover his TNG beginnings and include the phrase "he wrote the best Q episode ever", continue to his DS9 years - I forgive thee Waltz, Ron, for everything else was mighty fine indeed, and thou didst write my favourite of the final eps, too, and wast very good with Kai Winn -, and finish with an elegy to his producer/writer work Battlestar Galactica, though perhaps I should wait for hmpf sending me episodes 9-13 so I can praise completely?), Joss Whedon (Joss, please let J.J. Abrams kidnap you for an episode as well, I MISS YOUR TV WORK!), and/or Buffy Summers (whom I've neglected recently as well). But feel free to ask for other topics.
( 5.) Solutions for yesterday's quiz: )
1) I got a gift from an anonymous LJ fairy - six months. Thank you, oh unknown benefactor! I promise to help you escape any number of English (or for that matter, Bavarian) policemen if you turn up at my doorstep and reveal yourself to be a scary ex-con whom I met years ago.
2) Two Sparkys nominations for yours truly. I don't expect to win, given the competition, but am very thrilled nonetheless, especially that "Ghost in the Machine" made it. Having neglected Farscape somewhat recently, I feel propelled to make up for it. See below.
3) I'm also working on a theory of how falling for a show resembles falling in love. You know, sometimes, it's the "hm, could be interesting, though this guy has some habits which annoy... wait... that was really...wow... never mind, I'm in love!" kind. (I.e. the naturalistic model.) Sometimes we go by the romantic comedy model: "THAT ONE? With the freaky... and the bloody... no way!" But your friends devilishly keep throwing the two of you together, and following tradition, the blinders fall from your eyes, and you realise you were made for each other. (And possibly each other's divorce lawyers.) And finally, rarely, there is the Utterly Romantic Model which sweeps you of your feet in a burst of breathless delight. Love at first sight. In fiction, this traditionally ends badly, and sometimes in fandom, too, because the bitterness when the fen in question feel disenchanted is much worse. But very rarely, the love stays, and one still remembers the rapture years later, upon rediscovering the
Personally, I've had all types of relationships with my shows. Model A was me and Babylon 5, for example, or me and BtVS. (I had the misfortune of seeing Teacher's Pet first, which isn't that a great an intro, and so the Buffy love took a while.) Model B was me and Highlander, and me and Farscape. Model C was me and Firefly, me and American Gothic, and now me and the new Battlestar Galactica. These three have in common that they managed to start captivating, intelligently and intriguing and in-depth right away, and never missed a beat as they went on. Of course, two of them have also in common that they got cancelled after one season (not nearly a full season in FF's case, damm it!) , and I hope, hope, hope, this won't be the case with the newest love of my fannish life, the splendid, wonderful BSG, present version. Since sharing the enthusiasm is what fannish love is for, here are two reviews of the episode most recently broadcast in the US, Acts of Contrition.
4) In gratitude to my anonymous benefector, and because I feel so hyper anyway, I offer to write raves for you. Prefered subjects of choice would be Farscape, Blake's 7 (got my season 2 DVDs, yay!), Ron Moore (praise will cover his TNG beginnings and include the phrase "he wrote the best Q episode ever", continue to his DS9 years - I forgive thee Waltz, Ron, for everything else was mighty fine indeed, and thou didst write my favourite of the final eps, too, and wast very good with Kai Winn -, and finish with an elegy to his producer/writer work Battlestar Galactica, though perhaps I should wait for hmpf sending me episodes 9-13 so I can praise completely?), Joss Whedon (Joss, please let J.J. Abrams kidnap you for an episode as well, I MISS YOUR TV WORK!), and/or Buffy Summers (whom I've neglected recently as well). But feel free to ask for other topics.
( 5.) Solutions for yesterday's quiz: )
