Does this make me a Bad Fan?

[liz_marcs]

Confession #1:

I'm approximately 1 gazillion times more excited about Mama Mia! opening today than I am about The Dark Knight, despite the fact that I can see The Dark Knight at no less than 2 IMAX theaters within easy driving distance.



Confession #2:

It appears that I will buy anything David Simon does because, as it turns out, he's my favorite author (for television) ever. I own the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, all 7 seasons plus television movie of Homicide: Life on the Street, the book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, the HBO series The Corner, and the first 4 seasons of The Wire (with Season 5 on order for immediate shipping when it's available next month).

I am counting down to when Generation Kill will be available on DVD (I don't get HBO) so I can get my hands on it.

In short, you know how people will buy anything Joss Whedon does (even when it's total crap) and call him a genius for it (even though it's a case of the emperor walking around completely starkers)?

This is apparently how I treat productions involving David Simon, Ed Burns, and partners.

How can I put this...long before I let any of David Simon's stuff out of my hands, I will sell both my Angel and Buffy box sets.

The hell with that. I will burn my Angel and Buffy box sets before I give up any of David Simon's stuff.

(Seriously, those of you who kept looking for meaning in the "numbered shirts" of Buffy Season 6 that actually didn't have any meaning beyond, "We found a bunch of these for cheap in thrift shops?" Try The Wire, which actually has twice the meaning and twice the mythic elements of any Angel and Buffy episode without requiring you to fanwank. Best of all? The Wire actually has continuity that puts most book series to shame. No. I'm not kidding.)

Comments

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the reviews from my friends have pretty much been "most. addictive. thing. ever."

I find the whole Dr. Steel/Dr. Horrible thing really interesting. All the Whedonites are latching onto Young Frankenstein as a singing/dancing mad scientist so obviously the idea wasn't stolen. I have to admit, I have some qualms about the plagiarism claims since it is an archetypal role; however, some of the similarities--propaganda-esque ads etc--do come a little too close for comfort.

But what I find most entertaining is that, let's say this were say...oh...Tim Burton doing a internet series about a girl with special powers that help her fight off...I don't know...aliens, while still surviving the vagaries of high school or some such oddness. The Whedonites would be all over the place, crying theft and not listening to a word of "Guys, Supergirl was fighting bad guys all through high school first." It's the tunnel vision, he can do no wrong...ever...that wigs me out.

[liz-marcs.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that the latest Whedonesque thing that made me headdesk was some headline about how "Dr. Horrible" proved "Dougie Howser" could sing.

Soooo, ummmmm, all his musical theater work on Broadway and London between 1997 and 2006 doesn't count then?

I think this is why I'm floored when people are surprised that NPH can sing, because I clearly remember him singing Soundheim theater pieces on PBS something like 8 years ago.

Sorry. I just saw that headline today and I'm all, "The hell?"

[taerowyn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw that too and had pretty much the same reaction. I think I still remember the headlines re: Doogie Howser being in Rent. But you know if there isn't a camera and a screen...it doesn't count as "real" (and PBS clearly doesn't count :oP )