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liz_marcs ([personal profile] liz_marcs) wrote2008-07-18 12:02 pm

Does this make me a Bad Fan?

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.)

[identity profile] kaydee23.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Joss is not happy about that "Save Dollhouse" drive. He said he thinks it puts them in the *cheap seats.*

I too am a bit disturbed by the cult-of-Joss. Oh, and there are plenty of people on my flist who would gladly cut me if they saw this conversation.

Of course I mean, defriend, not cut. Although, some of them might actually cut me. With something sharp and shiny.

[identity profile] liz-marcs.livejournal.com 2008-07-18 09:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I'm glad that Joss is disturbed by the "Save Dollhouse" drive, because that made me do a double-take.

I'd like to think most people on my FList would agree to disagree with this conversation, I know I'm living in a fool's paradise.

I mean, I've nearly come to blows with more than one Browncoat because they didn't like the thought that someone in their immediate vicinity didn't think that Firefly was the best science fiction show evah! And that was before Serenity was dying a slow death at the box office.

I do believe you're sooo, sooo right about the shiny cuts. *giggle*