Yep. I make no secret in RL about my Buffy!love, and I've met a couple of people who are all "Angel is better then Buffy. The end." Not, "I enjoy it more" or "it's more relatable for me", just "it's better". I don't know what to do with that.
However, I've also caught myself quashing someone's Angel (or TVD) squee mid-way into some statement I'm making, and then I feel like a louse and try to backtrack. Let the people have their squee!
My dad was a professor at a provincial university, and it drove him absolutely crazy that the head of the music department forbade opera in his department, because he didn't like it. I think my dad purposely pursued opera in response to this attitude. (He was in a totally different department.)
Why do people go around making pronouncements and huge generalizations, and closing themselves off to huge classes of things? Is there any point? I just don't get it.
I mean, yeah, I've sort of turned my back on straight drama after decades of getting seriously bummed out by stuff. I sort of feel like I've done my time with holocaust stories, for instance. It's not like it's not rich story territory, it's just that I feel like I've already battered my head against that unchangeable historical monolith, and I just don't want to keep going there. (The ridiculous catharsis of the end of Inglorious Basterds notwithstanding.)
Family calls me to the temple of entertainment for something silly! Ta!
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However, I've also caught myself quashing someone's Angel (or TVD) squee mid-way into some statement I'm making, and then I feel like a louse and try to backtrack. Let the people have their squee!
My dad was a professor at a provincial university, and it drove him absolutely crazy that the head of the music department forbade opera in his department, because he didn't like it. I think my dad purposely pursued opera in response to this attitude. (He was in a totally different department.)
Why do people go around making pronouncements and huge generalizations, and closing themselves off to huge classes of things? Is there any point? I just don't get it.
I mean, yeah, I've sort of turned my back on straight drama after decades of getting seriously bummed out by stuff. I sort of feel like I've done my time with holocaust stories, for instance. It's not like it's not rich story territory, it's just that I feel like I've already battered my head against that unchangeable historical monolith, and I just don't want to keep going there. (The ridiculous catharsis of the end of Inglorious Basterds notwithstanding.)
Family calls me to the temple of entertainment for something silly! Ta!