The Unpopular Fan Opinion Meme Thingy
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buffyannatator. **Note the purpose of the meme is to come up with opinions that will most likely annoy your flist and make them flee in disgust. ie. I would never admit these things on fanboards, perish the thought.
1. Favorite Star Trek was, wait for it...Voyager. Yes, start the rotten tomatoe throwing now. But I liked the characters the best in this one. Kate Mulgrew was my favorite Captain. And I adored the romance between the half-Klingon and the bad-boy Enterprise spy. It's the only one I think I watched all the episodes of, or at least 90% of them. STNG being next.
2. Never understood the appeal of Star Gate: SG1 or Star-Gate:Atlantis, although I think I like the spin-off better. Just couldn't get into them. Won't miss them. Found the fact they were on all the time on Sci-Fi sort of annoying.
3. I like Sawyer on Lost. I actually still like Lost - yes, I know 90% of my flist has given up on it. It's been reamed up oneside and down the other. But I find the whole existentialist social psychologists on crack story line fascinating. Annoying at times, true. But also oddly engrossing.
4. I prefered the latter Seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer to the earlier ones and feel no desire or inclination to rewatch S1-3 again. In fact, to add insult to injury, I think S7 and S6 may in fact be my favorite seasons at the moment and possibly the best. This will no doubt shock anyone who read my critique of S7. But I can be critical of things I love. Oh, and yes, I watched the series in real time. I found the high school storyline in retrospect to be somewhat trite and easy and predictable, while the older storyline depicted in the last four seasons was more experimental and took more risks. The writers sort of said the same things in commentaries, stating how they would never have gotten away with that in Season 1 or 2 or 3, when they were worried about cancellation. Watching the last three seasons, in particular the last two, fascinates me, because you can see everything that happens in them predicted in the episode "Restless" that aired at the end of S4. The writer laid out a road map and he follows it to the letter. Even to the extent that he does things he knows could lose his audience and get the show booted off the air. Edge of one's seat tv. No comfort zones. And brutal at times. I loved it. And yes, I know lots of people didn't. That's why this little paragraph is point four on my list.
5. Don't like Bones, CSI, Law and Order, Cold Case, Numbers, Without A Trace, Criminal Minds, Medium,
and NCIS, for the same reasons. Can't get into them. Find them predictable. Unbelievable. And They put me to sleep. Also don't really see much distinction between them. Watching them makes me miss the mystery of the week shows that proceeded them, which I felt were better written and actually focused on characters and not silly gimmicks: Homicide Life on The Street, NYPD Blue, The Profiler, Millenium, Angel, Prime Suspect, Cracker, Remington Steel, Moonlighting, Cagney and Lacey, Judging Amy.
6. Boston Legal - just not my cup of tea. I loved James Spader's turn as Alan Shore on the last season of the Practice, and William Shatner's guest-star gig. Also Rebecca De-Morney kicked ass.
But Boston Legal is just too silly and over the top for me.
7. My favorite male character on BSG is Apollo. Yes, still. And I am a Starbuck/Apollo shipper, because their relationship is sooo painful, yet also sooo real. I know, I know, people hate Apollo, think he's an ass, etc. But I like him. And I think Jamie Bamber the actor who plays him is hot.
8. Don't get the Wentworth Miller love, he's pretty I guess but looks a bit like a Ken Doll in my eyes. Just. No. Nor do I understand the appeal of Prison Break. I've tried to watch it, it just bores me.
9. Don't care about Meredith or Derek. If these characters disappeared from the show, it would not bother me. I'm actually sort of rooting for Addison and Alex to get together. Or an Addison/Alex/Izzy/McSteamy/Calli/George mess. That would be interesting. Meredith - eh. She's more interesting when she isn't worrying over Derek. And I sort of wish she'd ended up with Finn, although I think McDreamy, Finn, and McSteamy all look alike.
Okay what else can I come up with?
Drawing a blank. I'd say I hate reality shows, except I do watch Project Runway and I'm not certain that's an unpopular fan opinion? I'm not crazy about Gilmore Girls any more, yet still torturing myself by watching it? Nah. Sitcoms generally bore me? True. With a few exceptions here and there and while not a fan of Scrubs, have found it entertaining at times.
Supernatural - do not get the love. Again, not entirely true - I do get it, just don't share it. Except for the occassionally clever depictions of old urban legends which amuse me.
Farscape was better in my opinion than Star Trek? Nah. Ahh... I got a good one that I've never revealed online before for fear of getting screamed at. This is a killer.
10. Amber Benson - while I liked the character well enough, was glad Whedon killed her because I liked the darkWillow storyline and knew Whedon was going there since Restless. And I thought it was more interesting. Would have been seriously disappointed if he hadn't gone through with it. In fact, was looking forward to it. Adore Villians through Grave. I'm also very glad that Amber did not reprise the role, so Whedon could not bring her back to life and ruin what I thought was a believable arc for the characters. Also Amber's habit of stuttering when she played Tara, annoyed the hell out of me. Was very happy when she kicked that habit sometime in S6.
buffyannatator. **Note the purpose of the meme is to come up with opinions that will most likely annoy your flist and make them flee in disgust. ie. I would never admit these things on fanboards, perish the thought.1. Favorite Star Trek was, wait for it...Voyager. Yes, start the rotten tomatoe throwing now. But I liked the characters the best in this one. Kate Mulgrew was my favorite Captain. And I adored the romance between the half-Klingon and the bad-boy Enterprise spy. It's the only one I think I watched all the episodes of, or at least 90% of them. STNG being next.
2. Never understood the appeal of Star Gate: SG1 or Star-Gate:Atlantis, although I think I like the spin-off better. Just couldn't get into them. Won't miss them. Found the fact they were on all the time on Sci-Fi sort of annoying.
3. I like Sawyer on Lost. I actually still like Lost - yes, I know 90% of my flist has given up on it. It's been reamed up oneside and down the other. But I find the whole existentialist social psychologists on crack story line fascinating. Annoying at times, true. But also oddly engrossing.
4. I prefered the latter Seasons of Buffy The Vampire Slayer to the earlier ones and feel no desire or inclination to rewatch S1-3 again. In fact, to add insult to injury, I think S7 and S6 may in fact be my favorite seasons at the moment and possibly the best. This will no doubt shock anyone who read my critique of S7. But I can be critical of things I love. Oh, and yes, I watched the series in real time. I found the high school storyline in retrospect to be somewhat trite and easy and predictable, while the older storyline depicted in the last four seasons was more experimental and took more risks. The writers sort of said the same things in commentaries, stating how they would never have gotten away with that in Season 1 or 2 or 3, when they were worried about cancellation. Watching the last three seasons, in particular the last two, fascinates me, because you can see everything that happens in them predicted in the episode "Restless" that aired at the end of S4. The writer laid out a road map and he follows it to the letter. Even to the extent that he does things he knows could lose his audience and get the show booted off the air. Edge of one's seat tv. No comfort zones. And brutal at times. I loved it. And yes, I know lots of people didn't. That's why this little paragraph is point four on my list.
5. Don't like Bones, CSI, Law and Order, Cold Case, Numbers, Without A Trace, Criminal Minds, Medium,
and NCIS, for the same reasons. Can't get into them. Find them predictable. Unbelievable. And They put me to sleep. Also don't really see much distinction between them. Watching them makes me miss the mystery of the week shows that proceeded them, which I felt were better written and actually focused on characters and not silly gimmicks: Homicide Life on The Street, NYPD Blue, The Profiler, Millenium, Angel, Prime Suspect, Cracker, Remington Steel, Moonlighting, Cagney and Lacey, Judging Amy.
6. Boston Legal - just not my cup of tea. I loved James Spader's turn as Alan Shore on the last season of the Practice, and William Shatner's guest-star gig. Also Rebecca De-Morney kicked ass.
But Boston Legal is just too silly and over the top for me.
7. My favorite male character on BSG is Apollo. Yes, still. And I am a Starbuck/Apollo shipper, because their relationship is sooo painful, yet also sooo real. I know, I know, people hate Apollo, think he's an ass, etc. But I like him. And I think Jamie Bamber the actor who plays him is hot.
8. Don't get the Wentworth Miller love, he's pretty I guess but looks a bit like a Ken Doll in my eyes. Just. No. Nor do I understand the appeal of Prison Break. I've tried to watch it, it just bores me.
9. Don't care about Meredith or Derek. If these characters disappeared from the show, it would not bother me. I'm actually sort of rooting for Addison and Alex to get together. Or an Addison/Alex/Izzy/McSteamy/Calli/George mess. That would be interesting. Meredith - eh. She's more interesting when she isn't worrying over Derek. And I sort of wish she'd ended up with Finn, although I think McDreamy, Finn, and McSteamy all look alike.
Okay what else can I come up with?
Drawing a blank. I'd say I hate reality shows, except I do watch Project Runway and I'm not certain that's an unpopular fan opinion? I'm not crazy about Gilmore Girls any more, yet still torturing myself by watching it? Nah. Sitcoms generally bore me? True. With a few exceptions here and there and while not a fan of Scrubs, have found it entertaining at times.
Supernatural - do not get the love. Again, not entirely true - I do get it, just don't share it. Except for the occassionally clever depictions of old urban legends which amuse me.
Farscape was better in my opinion than Star Trek? Nah. Ahh... I got a good one that I've never revealed online before for fear of getting screamed at. This is a killer.
10. Amber Benson - while I liked the character well enough, was glad Whedon killed her because I liked the darkWillow storyline and knew Whedon was going there since Restless. And I thought it was more interesting. Would have been seriously disappointed if he hadn't gone through with it. In fact, was looking forward to it. Adore Villians through Grave. I'm also very glad that Amber did not reprise the role, so Whedon could not bring her back to life and ruin what I thought was a believable arc for the characters. Also Amber's habit of stuttering when she played Tara, annoyed the hell out of me. Was very happy when she kicked that habit sometime in S6.
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Date: 2006-10-26 11:26 pm (UTC)2. Never understood the appeal of Star Gate: SG1 or Star-Gate:Atlantis, although I think I like the spin-off better. Just couldn't get into them. Won't miss them. Found the fact they were on all the time on Sci-Fi sort of annoying.
Agreed. Of course, when it first came to SciFi, it was also one of the indirect deciding factors in Farscape's cancellation, which really annoyed me and lots and lots of people. Because Farscape's ratings never dropped. They basically remained the same. When SciFi brought on Stargate from Showtime, however, the ratings were so much larger than Farscape that Farscape seemed to be a ratings failure by comparison. It was beyond irritating at the time that SciFi gave preferential treatment to a show that they had bought from another network and ditched their own original series, and particularly one that was so much more intelligent and complex than Stargate. I've mostly forgiven them now, though, since the miniseries finished the arc so beautifully. But it was very irritating at the time to see Stargate playing all the time, whereas it was almost impossible to find a Farscape rerun.
4. Fully agreed about Buffy's later seasons being superior, although my favorite was probably the fifth.
6. I love Boston Legal. Actually, it's funny. My mom's a lawyer and always hated watching legal shows, like "Why would I want to do this all day as a job and then come home and watch a show about people doing my job?" But she watched one episode with me and was completely hooked. Really just a matter of taste. The show can be almost indefensibly silly and over-the-top, but for some reason, it is the perfect show for me. I can't explain why but I just love it.
7. My favorite male character on BSG is Apollo. Yes, still. And I am a Starbuck/Apollo shipper, because their relationship is sooo painful, yet also sooo real. I know, I know, people hate Apollo, think he's an ass, etc. But I like him. And I think Jamie Bamber the actor who plays him is hot.
Agreed.
8. I don't get Wentworth Miller either. I don't find him particularly attractive. Not that he's particularly unattractive, but I don't get why everyone swoons. Meh.
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Date: 2006-10-26 11:42 pm (UTC)loved the meme...but I agree 100% on #2, and 90% on #4 (I would list my favorite seasons of BtVS as 4,6 & 7)
I have no problems with your #8 & #9 because I don't watch those shows and don't know who any of those characters are (so I can't very well be offended, huh?)
And I mostly agree w/you on #10, except that I really didn't like the character much so I didn't mind seeing her die (like I had never liked Fred and I rejoiced in replacing her with Illyria, who I loved).
So I'm counting that as: I agree w/you 50% of the time, and the rest are things I don't care deeply enough to argue about....
but I think I'll wrack my brain and see what I can come up with (starting with having opinions about Harry Potter which I know would annoy my flist...)
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Date: 2006-10-27 11:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-10-27 02:18 pm (UTC)2) Aw, am I the only one on this flist who liked SG-1?
3) I could get into the social psychology angle of LOST if I felt confident that Lindelhof and Cuse could somehow pull all the threads of the narrative together in a cohesive and satisfying fashion. I don't.
4) Execution was my problem with the last 3 seasons, not conception.
5) Numbers and Medium actually DO have interesting characters, and I can usually gloss over the case-of-the-week and enjoy the character bits. If somebody like Tim Minear joined Criminal Minds, it could be as good if not better than The Inside. The cast is there; it just needs the writer.
6) Completely agree.
7) Still not cable-ready, but from the BSG I've seen, Starbuck is my fave.
8) No comment.
9) Nobody on Grey's Anatomy appeals to me. NOBODY. I can't even watch to ogle Sandra Oh, and for me, that's almost unbelievable.
10) Very, very happy that Joss did not bring Tara back. Would have made "Amends" seem like Bleak House by comparison. I do wish Amber could have played the First in CWDP, and that Joss had spared us Kennedy...
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Date: 2006-10-28 12:42 pm (UTC)