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shipperxTV is mostly boring lately. It's the pre-sweeps reruns.
* Modern Family was a re-run. I didn't bother to watch (it was on, mind you. I just didn't watch it much).
* A week late on the last Being Erica episode. Eh, episode but... KAIIIIII!!!!!!
* I did watch Suprenatural (late). I thought JM looked pretty good (though age appropriate). The TWOP summary was annoying as hell... but it's TWOP. What else do you expect?
* Revenge. Backstabbing. Spying. Murder. Machinations galore. Yippee! Loved E-manda pegging Tyler and nailing him on his preposterous back story (So how did you land that expensive jet on an island that only has a dirt runway long enough for a prop plane? And why would you suggest that island as a tax haven when they changed their tax laws in the 1980s?) Smart chicks rule! Tyler, your Talented Mr. Ripley routine isn't going to top the female Count of Monte Cristo. You can't con a con, and she has your number. ::rubbing my hands together:: let the games begin. BTW E-manda... glorious red dress.
* So I'm reviewing part of BtVS Season 8 for fanfic and...I still look at it with.. o.O? I can tell by the parts I'm glossing over and leaving out as extraneous material that there's so much about Season 8 that simply did not interest me at all. Too much of it was comic book clap-crap meant for fanboy appeal. The tanks, the guns, the grenades, the military hardware in total, the Nick-Fury-ing of Xander. The 'buck up it's war. People die' patronizing speeches given by everyone from Xander to Andrew (or is that Oz? I swear from the art it's impossible to tell in one panel whether it's Andrew or Oz... I'm going with Andrew, but solely because of the color of his shirt! From the face/hair/posture there is no clue!) Yadda, yadda. This wasn't the BtVS I bought into with the show, and I really disliked their turning it into some weird miss-mash of boy-toy soldier war with panels of generic, nameless girls being lectured to + traditional superhero villain (complete with flying and lycra outfits!). I liked the Goth/Horror/Soap/Comedy show. This stuff...wasn't it.
* Okay, so I've peeked into Days of Our Livesdesperate bid to save the show reboot and I gotta call it as I see it -- flop! (bitching behind the cut) The much-heralded 'new set' looks cheap as hell and fake as hell. All of the stories are boring and some are offensively dumb. {Hey, Days. Look at Revenge. See? Fun. Machinations, intrigue, backstabbing, bitchiness! FUN! No sanctimonious do-goodies boring the hell out of me with their glittery perfection and infallible 'goodness.' Days, your stuff is dumb.)
Gary-Stu-Daniel is Maggie's child now? ... Because of stored embryos from when she was trying to get pregnant with Sarah... the child she actually had on the show which they won't bother to cast, use, or write for? So you retcon your Gary Stu into being 60ish Maggie's egg-baby? And Alice fucking HORTON knew these last 20 years? And didn't tell anyone? ALICE?! No way in any hell. Not buyin'. Nuh-and-uh. That was Alice! One does not taint the memory of Grandma Alice. Not ever.
So a Maggie embryo got misplaced or donated or something and this is Daniel and..erm... hello! Show!!! Was the TARDIS involved? This story took place during my lifetime. Sarah is Carrie's age (and that's with SORAS)! Daniel is at least 45-47 years old (lay off the tanning bed, honey. It's not helping. That goes double for you Pat Muldoon.). They didn't have in vitro back then, you idiots!
Plus Daniel is already such a Gary Stu that I hate him, and making him Maggie's isn't going to change that or the fact that his screechy Mary Sue daughter is annoying as hell. And turning them into honorary Hortons via Maggie just pisses people off! Stop going to desperate lengths to tie them to veteran characters. You already destroyed Carly on your last attempt to do so.)
And my J&J shipper heart from when I was a teen has moved to some other shipping universe because the thought of yet another Jennifer-based triangle with some new propped Perfect Guy (who is now her sorta-half-cousin), Jack being an idiot, and Jack having to grovel and change (again!) to win back his own wife for the umpteenth thousandth (Okay, the 10th. It's just feels like the thousandth) time... I'm so over it.
She's had ten different boyfriends during their 20-year off and on marriage (he's had...well, since they've retconned out the recast years so that the Jen/Peter real-life back stage affair debacle is never to be brought to anyone's mind... Jack has had 0 interest in anyone but his wife... which seems like it deserves some sort of soap award.)
Let Jen marry the other 'perfect' dude and discover that no one has picnics every damn day of their adult life and, yes, even 'perfect' guys have to work sometime and can't spend their every waking hour writing love poems for you.
Let Jack give the hell up and find some woman who isn't perfect, who doesn't make him feel hopelessly inferior, who doesn't lecture him all the damn time, who doesn'texpect require him to grovel as she berates him, or expect that if he isn't genuflecting to her shiny perfection that he's being inappropriately unappreciative. Psst! Jack, tall, lanky blonde Nicole Walker DiMera knows what it's like to have a partner who is constantly more 'in love' with someone else than with her. I know she's in her thirties and you're 45+, but that's not so bad of an age gap (after all Daniel Egg-Baby-Sue, who is now dating your wife, once dated Chelsea... your daughter's best friend. Next to that a ten-ish year age gap with 30-something Nicole doesn't look too bad). Or, I saw that Billie Reed is coming back to town. She also knows how awful it is to constantly come in second to the perennially 'perfect' people for 20 years. And, she's your age! And you're long-time friends! I say go for it. We can call you B&B (because Jack's real name is Billy too).
The show has killed any and all affection I once had for the J&J pairing and removed the motor that made the pairing run (and between it and BtVS, it may have permanently dented my 'bad boy'/'good girl' trope kink because... is this the inevitable outcome? The bad boy 'changes' to win/'be worthy' of the good girl, establishing a relationship hierarchy and dynamic that will never change? This is it? He'll always be 'not good enough' and in some way 'unworthy' of the 'good girl,' thus must constantly be thankful and on a self-improvement project and yet will somehow ever and always be less...because the relationship dynamics were set back in the stone-age of the relationship? Because if so... blech. I'm done.)
Jennifer wants picket fense perfection -- give it to her, already, show! I'm sick of her whining about it. Give her the Marty Stu perfect ever-attentive impossible egg baby heart surgeon boyfriend who takes her on endless picnics and writes her love poems (I'm not kidding!) I'm sick of the 'make Jack compete for her diamond-plated glittery hoo-hah' story they've revisted agan and again since 1991. And speaking as a viewer, personally, I don't want Jack to change too much (Don't get me wrong. I'm sick of the show writing him as a buffoon so as to shuffle him off screen on ludicrous pretexts so as to hook Jennifer up with some new perfect guy they want to test out, so when it crashes and burns they can bring Jack back (usually from the dead... or Africa) to beg for her again. If they can't write him as his own character and not just someone to 'kill' (nine times! I'm not kidding!) so 'poor, poor Jennifer' can have a new plot, then just leave him off screen already. If they would stop writing him as a buffoon, he's more interesting as the obsessive reporter who gets in over his head and who is haunted by slew of issues...so, no, I don't root for a sea change for him to be 'worthy' of his saintly, Salem's Snow White wife. Break 'em up permanently, I say. Give Jen-Jen her 'perfect' guy and let Jack find some imperfect (but fun!) woman for a change. Relationship equality!
Except, I won't be watching.
The writing is terrible.
(Oh and show, if you do to Jack & Jen's daughter what you did to Steve & Kayla's daughter in order to (again!) prop Daniel's screechy Mary Sue daughter, you doubly suck. What part of legacy character trumps Mary/Marty Sue newbies do you not understand?)
* New Fringe this week, right? Looking forward to this! Yay!
* Modern Family was a re-run. I didn't bother to watch (it was on, mind you. I just didn't watch it much).
* A week late on the last Being Erica episode. Eh, episode but... KAIIIIII!!!!!!
* I did watch Suprenatural (late). I thought JM looked pretty good (though age appropriate). The TWOP summary was annoying as hell... but it's TWOP. What else do you expect?
* Revenge. Backstabbing. Spying. Murder. Machinations galore. Yippee! Loved E-manda pegging Tyler and nailing him on his preposterous back story (So how did you land that expensive jet on an island that only has a dirt runway long enough for a prop plane? And why would you suggest that island as a tax haven when they changed their tax laws in the 1980s?) Smart chicks rule! Tyler, your Talented Mr. Ripley routine isn't going to top the female Count of Monte Cristo. You can't con a con, and she has your number. ::rubbing my hands together:: let the games begin. BTW E-manda... glorious red dress.
* So I'm reviewing part of BtVS Season 8 for fanfic and...I still look at it with.. o.O? I can tell by the parts I'm glossing over and leaving out as extraneous material that there's so much about Season 8 that simply did not interest me at all. Too much of it was comic book clap-crap meant for fanboy appeal. The tanks, the guns, the grenades, the military hardware in total, the Nick-Fury-ing of Xander. The 'buck up it's war. People die' patronizing speeches given by everyone from Xander to Andrew (or is that Oz? I swear from the art it's impossible to tell in one panel whether it's Andrew or Oz... I'm going with Andrew, but solely because of the color of his shirt! From the face/hair/posture there is no clue!) Yadda, yadda. This wasn't the BtVS I bought into with the show, and I really disliked their turning it into some weird miss-mash of boy-toy soldier war with panels of generic, nameless girls being lectured to + traditional super
* Okay, so I've peeked into Days of Our Lives
Gary-Stu-Daniel is Maggie's child now? ... Because of stored embryos from when she was trying to get pregnant with Sarah... the child she actually had on the show which they won't bother to cast, use, or write for? So you retcon your Gary Stu into being 60ish Maggie's egg-baby? And Alice fucking HORTON knew these last 20 years? And didn't tell anyone? ALICE?! No way in any hell. Not buyin'. Nuh-and-uh. That was Alice! One does not taint the memory of Grandma Alice. Not ever.
So a Maggie embryo got misplaced or donated or something and this is Daniel and..erm... hello! Show!!! Was the TARDIS involved? This story took place during my lifetime. Sarah is Carrie's age (and that's with SORAS)! Daniel is at least 45-47 years old (lay off the tanning bed, honey. It's not helping. That goes double for you Pat Muldoon.). They didn't have in vitro back then, you idiots!
Plus Daniel is already such a Gary Stu that I hate him, and making him Maggie's isn't going to change that or the fact that his screechy Mary Sue daughter is annoying as hell. And turning them into honorary Hortons via Maggie just pisses people off! Stop going to desperate lengths to tie them to veteran characters. You already destroyed Carly on your last attempt to do so.)
And my J&J shipper heart from when I was a teen has moved to some other shipping universe because the thought of yet another Jennifer-based triangle with some new propped Perfect Guy (who is now her sorta-half-cousin), Jack being an idiot, and Jack having to grovel and change (again!) to win back his own wife for the umpteenth thousandth (Okay, the 10th. It's just feels like the thousandth) time... I'm so over it.
She's had ten different boyfriends during their 20-year off and on marriage (he's had...well, since they've retconned out the recast years so that the Jen/Peter real-life back stage affair debacle is never to be brought to anyone's mind... Jack has had 0 interest in anyone but his wife... which seems like it deserves some sort of soap award.)
Let Jen marry the other 'perfect' dude and discover that no one has picnics every damn day of their adult life and, yes, even 'perfect' guys have to work sometime and can't spend their every waking hour writing love poems for you.
Let Jack give the hell up and find some woman who isn't perfect, who doesn't make him feel hopelessly inferior, who doesn't lecture him all the damn time, who doesn't
The show has killed any and all affection I once had for the J&J pairing and removed the motor that made the pairing run (and between it and BtVS, it may have permanently dented my 'bad boy'/'good girl' trope kink because... is this the inevitable outcome? The bad boy 'changes' to win/'be worthy' of the good girl, establishing a relationship hierarchy and dynamic that will never change? This is it? He'll always be 'not good enough' and in some way 'unworthy' of the 'good girl,' thus must constantly be thankful and on a self-improvement project and yet will somehow ever and always be less...because the relationship dynamics were set back in the stone-age of the relationship? Because if so... blech. I'm done.)
Jennifer wants picket fense perfection -- give it to her, already, show! I'm sick of her whining about it. Give her the Marty Stu perfect ever-attentive impossible egg baby heart surgeon boyfriend who takes her on endless picnics and writes her love poems (I'm not kidding!) I'm sick of the 'make Jack compete for her diamond-plated glittery hoo-hah' story they've revisted agan and again since 1991. And speaking as a viewer, personally, I don't want Jack to change too much (Don't get me wrong. I'm sick of the show writing him as a buffoon so as to shuffle him off screen on ludicrous pretexts so as to hook Jennifer up with some new perfect guy they want to test out, so when it crashes and burns they can bring Jack back (usually from the dead... or Africa) to beg for her again. If they can't write him as his own character and not just someone to 'kill' (nine times! I'm not kidding!) so 'poor, poor Jennifer' can have a new plot, then just leave him off screen already. If they would stop writing him as a buffoon, he's more interesting as the obsessive reporter who gets in over his head and who is haunted by slew of issues...so, no, I don't root for a sea change for him to be 'worthy' of his saintly, Salem's Snow White wife. Break 'em up permanently, I say. Give Jen-Jen her 'perfect' guy and let Jack find some imperfect (but fun!) woman for a change. Relationship equality!
Except, I won't be watching.
The writing is terrible.
(Oh and show, if you do to Jack & Jen's daughter what you did to Steve & Kayla's daughter in order to (again!) prop Daniel's screechy Mary Sue daughter, you doubly suck. What part of legacy character trumps Mary/Marty Sue newbies do you not understand?)
* New Fringe this week, right? Looking forward to this! Yay!
