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[shadowkat]

1. Comfort television shows. Mine appear to be:

* Buffy
* Angel
* The Good Place
* Farscape
* Star Trek
* Doctor Who

I'm re-watching Buffy and Angel on Hulu now. Yes, I have the DVDs, but I decided to get Hulu with no commercials so I could stream. Sigh. I also own the DVDs to a portion of Doctor Who and all of Farscape. And I liked Veronica Mars.

What this says about me, I honestly don't know. Caveat -- I have to like 98% of the characters for a show to be a comfort show.

The new television shows just aren't working for me at the moment. Don't know why.

Also in rewatching? Spike was a better developed character than Angel, he kept evolving and changing while Angel had two settings - this was due mainly to the actors relationships to the writers than anything else. Marsters is unrecognizable in various roles, while Boreanze plays himself and is always recognizable. In addition it's clear Angel was a very two-dimensional character, with a soul brooding, without -- pure evil, while Spike fell more among the spectrum, and was never quite as evil as Angel. In Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Spike gives Dru a necklace, Angelus - a human heart.
It should be noted when I originally watched this live, I was shipping Angel and Buffy and didn't figure out that the writers had no intention of putting them together until S1 Angel - I Will Rememer You.

Also the paralleling of Angel and Cordelia and their cruelty is evident in Bewitched. I think Whedon came from some of the same educational background I did and somehow hit a chord. At any rate the show worked for me.

I know a lot of fans didn't like one of the following: Spike, Buffy, Angel, Xander, Willow, Tara, OZ, Giles, Cordelia, Joyce, Giles, Drusilla, Riley, Dawn, etc. But for the most part? I loved all of them. Which made me a weird fan. I had no problem analyzing any of the above. So I became very popular on the fanboards in 2002-2003, because I loved all of them. There's a lesson in that. Fighting with people over favorite characters is counter-productive. Kindness and love gets you further, always. Also being patronizing, self-righteous, condescending turns folks off. You can't change another's mind, I learned that. You can't attack their argument by attacking them. Morally righteous tends to end in failure. The only way to win is through love. Nothing else.

Why I loved all of the above? They are character centric, metaphor heavy, and over-arching message is caring about others not just yourself and your own tribe or family.

2. Politics

I've found over time it works better to attacks the politics not the person. Which is hard to do.
So I've backed off.

3. I'm struggling with my social life. I want to hide. All week long -- intense human interaction.
Then I want a break.

I bought a membership for Brooklyn Museum of Art for $75 Bucks. It furthers art. And I get free tickets to David Bowie. Also concerts.

And, it's not that far on the Q.

Comments

[anoyo]

Oh, comfort TV. ♥ Mine are:
-Stargate SG-1
-Gilmore Girls
-Grey's Anatomy
-Hart of Dixie
-S1-3 Supernatural
-Doctor Who (Eccleston & Tennant)
-Smallville

[shadowkat]

Well, we have three in common...sort of. Gilmore Girls, Grey's and Doctor Who.

[anoyo]

=D

[deird1]

My comfort tv has some overlaps with yours: Buffy, Angel, Farscape, Frasier, and West Wing.

[shadowkat]

Oh, I loved Fraiser and West Wing.

[deird1]

West Wing is my background noise. I turned it on while trying to nap during pregnancy (couldn't manage to sleep with no noise at the time), and I've just watched through the whole thing in the background while I work. Quite enjoyable, even when I can't concentrate on actually watching it.

[shadowkat]

Background noise shows are great. Haven't found one that works recently, although I have been known to use shows like Deception for that.