Where I get my bitch on.

[hackthis_archive]

Some people get their freak on, today, I get my bitch on.


1. Stargate Atlantis. I don't get the appeal. I've tried, repeatedly. It bored me to tears. That's not my beef though, because I have my most beloved Battlestar Galactica. What is killing me is that everyone, and I do mean pretty much every fucking person I know, is loving this show with an unholy passion, and they're turning that unholy passion into stories that I can't read! lyra_sena wrote fucking guitar porn! rageprufrock has some crazy series about strippers (that is what that's about, yeah? I'm only going off the title). seperis is writing, like, assassin-fic or something. And here I am with nothing! That sucks. But you'll never get me to that show, so.

2. Speaking of shows I don't fancy, Firefly is another one. This isn't me telling people that they can't be all happy about Serenity, since apparently if SGA isn't your show, this one is. I mean everyone has their space show, and even ethrosdemon likes this one (or maybe that's just Nathan Fillion's bum), but just, no. I do think Gina Torres rocks, but that's probably because she's married to Laurence Fishburne.

3. And while we're on the topic of things that are boring me to tears – this season of Lost sucks "hairy dog bollocks" as I told estrella30. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and this one is mine. Last season was fast paced, every moment resulting in fifty different consequences. 44 days were covered in 22 episodes. This season we are four episodes in and still on the same fucking day. Nothing is fucking happening on this show, people; it's boring as hell. They have 44 potential people to use, why they hell aren't they addressing them? Stop spreading your legs for everyone, JJ, and focus on the people at home. Bringing in new characters is not the way to solve your issues. He pulled this same shit on Alias, and it's so not necessary.

Uh, yeah, that's pretty much it for me today. Thanks to everyone for answering my iPod questions. I'm off to search for something of interest to read that's not SGA.


ETA: I should point out that there are shows that I do love: Kichen Confidential, Grey's Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, Made and What Not to Wear. Also, obviously Entourage and Battlestar Galactica, but they're on hiatus right now.

Comments

[romanticalgirl.livejournal.com]

1 - I wholeheartedly agree.
2 - Amen, sistah!
3 - I lost interest last season, so I'm with you, just in retrospect.

That said, you should maybe start catering your writing to me and vice versa and we'll leave those others with their own stuff. Hee.

Also - Daniel Craig: the new Bond. Discuss (because I'm stuck somewhere in the mental loop of half-put on (or taken off) tuxedos)

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Daniel Craig: the new Bond.

Good idea. Much better than the Jude Law rumors I've been hearing.

[kismeteve.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis. I don't get the appeal. I've tried, repeatedly. It bored me to tears.

Word. Word on all three points. I missed last night's Lost and I don't even care. Unless Jin or Sawyer are naked and Jack and Kate finally have sex, I'm not all that interested.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm at that stage where everyone gives me nothing but aggro.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis. I don't get the appeal

I hear ya. I do feel all sad and on the outside looking in, but I just have no interest in the show or anything and there's all this allegedly great fic being written that I can't/won't read, and it's like what *everyone* on my flist is talking and writing about 24/7.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. I do feel all sad and on the outside looking in, but I just have no interest in the show or anything and there's all this allegedly great fic being written that I can't/won't read, and it's like what *everyone* on my flist is talking and writing about 24/7.

That's my entire issue! People are writing all this fantastic stuff and I can't enjoy any of it. I've tried divorcing the fic from the show, but it just doesn't quite mesh. We are totally on the outside looking in, whatever though, we can still party.

[serialkarma.livejournal.com]

I am blaming this whine about everything I love in fandom today on the pointy shoes. Yis.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

You love Firefly? Since when? As for the SGA thing, I'm not ragging on your show, well, I am, but that's normal -- what's got me all hot and bothered is that everyone is fucking writing it and I'm all on the outside looking in (like musesfool said). I'm used to being on the cutting edge or in the melee, I don't like not being in!

[plumtastic.livejournal.com]

And then there are those of us that are kinda slutty and like damn near *everything*.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I like damn near everything, this just isn't that everything ;)

[rhienelleth.livejournal.com]

I watch SGA, and have even written fic for it, but...it is not the best SF show ever, nor does it even come close to BSG good. I wrote a post once about how it's my new Star Trek, and probably appeals to me on that level of inner geek.

Firefly, well, I don't get how people don't love it. But I get how you feel about both of these shows. This is pretty much my take on Veronica Mars. I've tried to watch it/love it for the sake of my f-list, which seems to adore it en masse. But...this season has been booooooooring thus far.

And Lost? ITA. I just knew this show was going to end up disappointing me ala Alias. *sigh*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

VM is another show that makes me go huh? It's just -- no. I don't get the SGA or the Firefly thing, but I just say whatever, VM is a show I actively dislike though. Which is interesting as I've only seen one episode and that one I kind of liked, I draw this dislike from all the cooing I reckon. Plus, spunky chicks. I fucking hate that description of women.

[theantimodel.livejournal.com]

1. Dude I couldn't care less about the tv show, but I totaly read like, a shitton of the fic yesterday and I'm blaming it all on the fact that the writers in the fandom are so awesome. Uh. I started with astolat and it was all downhill from there. But in a good, porntastic way. Where I don't know anything about the show's canon but I like the way the fanfic's written.

3. WORD. I was kind of fed up with Lost when they didn't answer a single goddamned thing last season while the ending on Veronica Mars was a huge contrast in that it tied things up perfectly. But this season of Lost is even worse. I'm just not feeling very engaged with it because I feel like the writers have written themselves into a box and now they're just dragging their heels because it's too soon to give anything up and it's too late to change things.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

1. I tried. I really tried that, but after having watched the show and seen the characters my POV just can't stop trying to mesh the two together. I want to read the stories and appreciate them on their own merits, especially considering how many fabulous authors are writing in the fandom.

3. I think the writers on Lost had a lot more fun last season because they could just keep randomly tossing shit out and pretending that it was relevant, but now that they have to actually answer for their actions, and they're lost. Pun not intended.

[mellafe.livejournal.com]

Funny, I just posted about TV stuff myself. LOSTSUCKSSOMUCHOMG!!!

I do adore Grey's Anatomy. George!! I should have an icon for that one. Damn.

Bring Back Sark!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I read your post about Alias, and as someone who hasn't watched since Sark left, well, I couldn't agree more. JJ has this thing where he thinks more characters will make things better, but they won't! You don't have to keep bringing in new characters if you utilise the ones you have and he doesn't do that. Big big zero in my book.

[slodwick.livejournal.com]

What is killing me is that everyone, and I do mean pretty much every fucking person I know, is loving this show with an unholy passion, and they're turning that unholy passion into stories that I can't read!

You get no sympathy from me. Or, that is, no more sympathy than you had for me when all the people I loved abandonded SV and started writing, like, I dunno... HP or QaF or DC all the time.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Yes, but people keep writing in SV, sometimes. I know because I read it, even though I don't, like, watch the show or anything. I know it all goes in cycles and right now this is the cycle where everyone around me is in some fandom I don't like, still sucks.

[issaro.livejournal.com]

, and they're turning that unholy passion into stories that I can't read!

in the immortal works of hackthis ...

Word.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

That's the real problem, innit? No new fiction in any fandom that I actually care about.

[cirakaite.livejournal.com]

Word on 1 & 3. Although admittedly, Lost barely caught my interest for the first season's eps that I saw. Firefly is love, but only because BSG is on hiatus, and thus I have some squee to share for something else. Plus, it has Kaylee, and Simon.

KC, I still have to download. But Battlestar Galactica is so far above and beyond anything else in terms of the sheer love.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

BSG is fucking fantabulous and my only regret is that I didn't start watching it when serialkarma told me to.

[lyra-sena.livejournal.com]

I love it when you get all hot and bothered. And just for it, I am not going to flake out on what I've promised you.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*raises an eyebrow* And people say wobblers aren't the way to get what you want.

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

I love you so much and want to MARRY this post. My god, I just got SO TURNED ON ROWR!

You can get yer bitch on ANY day, baby *g*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

*winks*

[veradeath.livejournal.com]

I caught an epp of Lost(S2) an was utterly confused, caught the first half of S1 on SGA and was sorely disappointed. And FF never really appealed to me. But I have CSI, 4400, Kitchen Confidental, Prison Break and Supernatural. So I'm happy. ASnd there's lots of porn, too!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I figure as long as I still have a few toys, I can endure this. Theoretically.

[desdema.livejournal.com]

As a very new fan of SGA I just wanted to say that when I tried to watch random episodes of SGA in the past I was totally not feeling the love, to the point that I turned them off about halfway through. Part of the problem was that I had no idea what was going on with the series overall - I didn't understand where they were or how they got there or what the characters had already been through together. I'd also never watched the original Stargate series so I had no idea of the basic parameters of their scifi universe.

Given all this, what worked for me was watching the episodes in order from the very beginning. I still don't think the show itself is that fabulous but I fell in love with a couple of the main characters and they're what keeps me watching. And of course familiarity with SGA has given me access to the wealth of truly incredible fic and discussion that has come out of SGA fandom. This is definitely the biggest fandom I've been a part of since X-Files and there is so much to see and do here that for me it offsets the less-than-fabulousness that is sometimes the actual show.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I've spent time *attempting* to watch episodes of both series and neither one held my interest whatsoever. They just seem so dry to me that I don't think watching it from the beginning would help; I tend to be the sort that either likes something or doesn't. I tend to be pretty decisive that way.

[ignited.livejournal.com]

Word to pretty much all of the above. I don't really care much for Firefly -- I saw it when it aired, didn't love it. I'm trying to rent it off Netflix to give it another chance but it's a long wait so.. oh well. ::shrugs:: As for Lost, I'm pissed because I liked last season and now it's just dragging on. Eghhh.

On a similar note, I don't mind if people pimp shows -- hey, that's how I find new things -- but if it doesn't hold my interest after the first few eps, later for that. I am a picky whore. It's fandom that's making me check out TV shows; I'd be happy with just watching movies, damn it.

Though I still have BSG to watch so I must start on that soon.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I loved Lost last season; it was smart and funny and so different from anything else. It was *engaging*. I knew JJ Abrams could write quality crack from Alias, and I thought okay, we can do this. So far this season I've been reminded of why I stopped watching Alias in the first place. Bringing in new characters is not the way to solve your storyline issues. Wrap things up, start new threads.

*I cannot recommend BSG enough, it's stunningly smart and engaging television. Plus, the men. Good lord.

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

I kind of boggle that BSG hasn't become the Big Thing, because it's the best thing on television right now, and almost my favorite sci-fi show ever.

But the things that seem to get the most fandom attention seem to be the ones that are subtexty and pretty good but not necessarily Great Television/Literature. Stuff good enough to inspire lots of obsession and analysis while leaving you with a desire for more than you know you'll get from canon.

I have no desire to seek out BSG fanfic because the show satisfies me nearly completely. (Not that it doesn't still boggle me that everyone isn't /watching/ it. OMG.) SGA... I wouldn't have started watching if it weren't for the slash (well, and having gotten into SG-1). Even then it took a few eps to get me loving on the show for more than the snark and slashiness.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking that BSG should be, like, the biggest fandom around these days, but it's just not happening. I'd heard that they had a fandom exploding wank at some point between S1 and S2 though, so maybe there're no survivors from that.

As for BSG fiction, I'd like to see a greater spectrum of it than just the canon couples, but well, can't have everything.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Lost, but I'm not one for straight-up drama or magical drama (don't know which Lost is, but it's definitely one of them). I like having the fantasy/sci-fi buffer at all times these days.

I do love Firefly (I watch Atlantis, but am not at all involved in fandomish activities for it. Mainly, I watch it because it's on the same night I'm watching SG-1 and BSG anything, plus my roommate is hugely into it). Firefly gets me the way all of Joss' stuff gets me, through the characters and the character interactions.

In my head, I do go around comparing BSG to Joss' stuff because I think that it also has very realistic characterization and character growth. But the vibes of the shows are different and they are dealing with different aspects of humanity. And Joss is a very distinctive writer and his brand of writing is something that definitely doesn't work for everyone (case in point, my brother).

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Lost isn't magical or straight-up, it's actually drama with a sci-fi bend to it, and if they actually *explored* the flipping sci-fi angle, maybe I'd be happier. As for the BSG v Firefly thing, I liked Joss, but I was never a Joss fan as much as I was a fan of his material, so when the material started to degenerate, I said, "Joss, feh." To this day I'm rather apathetic to him, so for me there's just no comparison between Firefly and BSG at all.

Reposted so it, you know, makes sense.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

*pats you muchly* I absolutely understand where you're coming from on number one--the part where everyone's writing it and you feel on the outside looking in. I was so, so ticked off with SGA for a better part of the late spring/early summer (and wrote about it in my SV longevity post), and...well, I'm glad I was able to get over my issues with things because otherwise, I'd be feeling pretty damn isolated right about now. So--many hugs, at least, because the feeling was not a happy one at all for me.

Can I ask what episodes you watched? I'm curious. :)

And man, something needs to get shaken up on Lost *badly* or they're just going to go in circles here. *sighs*

Re: Reposted so it, you know, makes sense.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't know which SGA episodes I watched, since it all seemed one big mesh for me. There was one with a female Wraith that was in disguise though, but I think in my heart, it's just not my type of thing. I want to laugh or scream and throw things. I want to feel compelled, or intrigued, or in love with the characters and SGA just couldn't hold my attention. I kept thinking, so, how long until BSG? As for Lost -- [insert eye rolling here] So very very boring right now. Where's Hurleyland? Where are the other survivors? Why aren't people challenging the status quo instead of being docile.... oh god, it's a commentary on the USA right now, isn't it?

[veredus.livejournal.com]

Well, you can console yourself with the knowledge that you are a Rebel! Nonconformist! A slasher who slashes to the beats of her own drums!

Go forth an revel in your rejection of peer pressure, you role model, you.

:)

*returns to reading SGA and Firefly slash*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

I sound my barbaric yawp of rebellion! I shant turn to the Dark Side!

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

What Not To Wear! Are you more of Suzannah and Trinny person or Stacy and Clinton? I love both pairs equally though the BBC pair tend to personalize more - saying "my arms are crap, yours are so much better!" and the like.

Though with my budget, watching too many episodes makes me look at what I can afford to replace in my wardrobe and despair.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Are you more of Suzannah and Trinny person or Stacy and Clinton? I love both pairs equally though the BBC pair tend to personalize more - saying "my arms are crap, yours are so much better!" and the like.

[insert much squeeing here] Another WNTW afficionado! As for preferences, you know I've been watching Trinny and Susannah from day one, I didn't even *know* there was an American version until this year, and then I had a surplus of fashion goodness. I do think that T&S can be much more brutal, but they do always do their best, sometimes I don't quite know why Clinton and Stacey let their subjects leave dressing the way they do. In their defense, I only really thought that once, but still. Once is enough! Watching too many episodes will may you throw out your entire wardrobe, much like Sex and the City.

[mooncharm.livejournal.com]

apparently if SGA isn't your show, this one is.

So true. Cos SGA makes me want to yak but Firefly is lurve. ;) Nip/Tuck could so become my crack though if only I could manage to catch it when it's on. *woe*

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Dude, Nip/tuck is the bestest crack you can get right now. Persevere. It's so worth it.

[rozza.livejournal.com]

Dude, I don't care for SG1 and SGA at all either. I think it's the type of show that won't click with you if you don't watch from the beginning, or thereabouts. I also have never been tempted to watch Firefly. I think it looks boring. And thus I don't want to see the movie either which, from what I've heard, is not so much a "movie movie" but a season's worth of episodes shoved into two hours. I loved Buffy but I learned a long time ago that just because I love a certain artist does not mean I am required to absolutely adore everything he or she puts out.

Just because I am partake in several fandoms does not mean I am obligated to watch everything that is out there that is remotely fannish. However, because of you I did start watching Entourage last season and loved it. I need to get the first season on DVD.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Entourage, baby. It's the best show that no one is watching.

[ex-niciasus652.livejournal.com]

I was thinking last night that Lost, lost something between the seasons. Because I am not that thrilled. I won't jump ship just yet, though.

I'm re-watching BSG 1st season, picking up things missed before. Love BSG!

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yes, Lost definitely lost something between the seasons. Quite possibly it was the plot.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

I basically hate TV nowadays. My Space Show of choice is Babylon 5, and well. They're just not churning out the eps these days, are they? :/

I like the two episodes I've seen of Firefly on DVD, and I like Queer as Folk (also seen on DVD/download). But that's about it, if you don't count old reruns and Jeopardy.

[hackthis.livejournal.com]

Jeopardy rocks.