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Hey! I'm back for a matter of hours and I'm immediately inundating you with one of those posts where I ramble and ramble about a show that I should have been watching for years now and so it's all old news for you. But I'm a new convert to Gossip Girl, dang it, and though I should have listened to Izi and May and started watching long ago, I'm now so flail-y about it that I just have to share.
So!
Strictly speaking, I should hate this show. Teen dramas are not my idea of fun (unless they're crazy smart like Buffy or Veronica Mars, but neither of those are typical at all and I don't judge them by the same standards) and I'm more drawn to sci-fi-ish, high concept dramas (well, Friday Night Lights doesn't fit into this category, but it's the exception. Also, I just bought season 2 on DVD and I'm going to actually watch it all the way through soon, just so you know). Also, the last thing I typically want to watch is moral-less millionaires revel in their own wealth.
But I don't care waht anyone says. This show is a satire. Or at least (mostly) maintains the tone of a well-written one. It has to walk the very thin line between melodrama and being too tongue-in-cheek, and in its best moments, it manages to do both.
( that chuck bass-tard! )
But!
There are two characters so awesome, so snarky and horrible, so well-drawn that I will put up with any level of mediocrity in order to experience their awesomeness.
Okay, I'm giving up on the suspense thing. It's not like you didn't already know who they were.
( damn that mother chucker! )
Wow. That was crazy long. I doubt anybody actually read all of it. But I had lots of fun writing it! And it's always exciting to gain a new fandom, especially one with characters as awesome as this one.
Also, who's been watching Fringe? Is it good? I tried to watch the pilot and couldn't make it through it. But if anyone I trust enjoys it, I'd be willing to give it another chance. J.J. Abrams and I have such a love/hate relationship, so I need advice on this one.
Oh, television. How I'd missed you.
So!
Strictly speaking, I should hate this show. Teen dramas are not my idea of fun (unless they're crazy smart like Buffy or Veronica Mars, but neither of those are typical at all and I don't judge them by the same standards) and I'm more drawn to sci-fi-ish, high concept dramas (well, Friday Night Lights doesn't fit into this category, but it's the exception. Also, I just bought season 2 on DVD and I'm going to actually watch it all the way through soon, just so you know). Also, the last thing I typically want to watch is moral-less millionaires revel in their own wealth.
But I don't care waht anyone says. This show is a satire. Or at least (mostly) maintains the tone of a well-written one. It has to walk the very thin line between melodrama and being too tongue-in-cheek, and in its best moments, it manages to do both.
( that chuck bass-tard! )
But!
There are two characters so awesome, so snarky and horrible, so well-drawn that I will put up with any level of mediocrity in order to experience their awesomeness.
Okay, I'm giving up on the suspense thing. It's not like you didn't already know who they were.
( damn that mother chucker! )
Wow. That was crazy long. I doubt anybody actually read all of it. But I had lots of fun writing it! And it's always exciting to gain a new fandom, especially one with characters as awesome as this one.
Also, who's been watching Fringe? Is it good? I tried to watch the pilot and couldn't make it through it. But if anyone I trust enjoys it, I'd be willing to give it another chance. J.J. Abrams and I have such a love/hate relationship, so I need advice on this one.
Oh, television. How I'd missed you.
