author_by_night | Entries tagged with glee

Because I'm just a smalltown girl livin' in a lonely world, amirite?.

What's a TV show you don't particularly like anymore, but still watch for some reason? Why? Or which show did you want to love, but gave up on?

Glee is kind of a hybrid of "don't like anymore but still watch" and "want to love but gave up". I sometimes watch it, but only if I've heard an episode was particularly good or particularly bad or just talked about a lot. I think I'd watch it more if they ditched McKinley and focused on the New York characters, which seems to be a common consensus so I hope they really do it. I also still wish they'd have set the series in the 90's, because for me it feels more my generation or even closer to Gen X than it does... whatever they call the generation of current 14-19 year olds.

But in all fairness to Glee, I don't think I'm their target audience. My friends who still watch it are people who love anything related to music - theater, American Idol, DWTS, advertisement jingles. They listen less for plot and character and more for the song and dance of the week. So while I don't think Glee has been that good since the first season, I'm also not watching to tap my foot and hum along the way they do, and that leaves the plot and characters, two elements even they admit aren't nearly as strong.

What fandom and/or ship do you Just Not Get that everyone else seems to love?

I don't get most of the popular ships out there. I like to stick close to canon, which isn't very... popular in fandom, it seems It's not that I'm elitist or anything, and I realize just because something seems canon doesn't mean it will be or that I'll like it once it is, but I'm usually pretty happy with whatever I'm given or think I'm being given. I also don't really ship for smut, which I think a lot of people do. I definitely don't do hate romantic plotlines. I just need... more than that, even if it's a pinch more. ( mean, the EC series is 90% smut if we're going to be completely honest - after COTCB that is, but there's also historical fiction and stuff.