Melodrama

[bop_radar]

If my shows are allowed to have cheap melodrama, why can't I?

I'm so upset you guys! Two shows. MY TWO FAVOURITE SHOWS. At once. Destroying everything I love and hold dear about them. I am so upset I could cry. At first I was numb and snarky and bitter, and then I found humour briefly, but then I went back into rage, and now I think I'm reaching depression...

I'm halfway through a measured response to 'Requiem' to explain why I think it's the death of Smallville, but I keep getting distracted by the badness on Battlestar...

IT'S TOO MUCH!

They were both so amazing. Why did they have to throw it away? With SV I can rationalise that Al and Miles left... but with Battlestar? It's hard to understand how RDM could create this universe and then destroy it. Also, I feel way more alone in BSG because so many fans are clinging to hope still. At least in SV, we've more or less all been smacked in the face.

I mean, don't get me wrong, Requiem was TEN TIMES AS DREADFUL as BSG this week, but the BSG decline is more drawn out. Which is better? I don't know! *flails*

It's days like today it really sucks to be a completionist.

ETA: I don't normally quote TWOP. But it occurs to me that this sums up my position on both shows: So if you've ever loved the show and thought it was building to a fitting end for some of its major characters, congratulations. You got played. Go watch Friday Night Lights instead.

Comments

[rap541.livejournal.com]

Bop, I put fic up on Gaeta_squee that might cheer you....

[ingridmatthews.livejournal.com]

I hear you. BSG was my rebound from SV. IS MY LUCK GOOD OR WHAT??!

I just have to either turn off my brain for the rest of my fannish life or just give up all together. I can't decide which.

[quasiexistent.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

This is the first time ever (and that's saying a lot considering the many tempting moments in the course of 7 years) that I feel like I'm forced to reject a huge chunk of canon if I ever want to be able to read future fics (my favorite kind) again or watch Clex/Clois vids without the bitter taste in my mouth. That's how much the characterization and relationship dynamics feel ruined to me.

Maybe if I just watched the show from now on as some kind of parody of its original vision (or what I thought it was, anyway) and try to find some humor in it all...voldything's review proved to be a kinda therapeutic to me so I guess that's the direction I'll take for now.

[svgurl.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that both your shows are going down the drain. And I totally understand about SV. After "Requiem", I almost did cry ... I was just so choked up and horrified. :(

*hugs*

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. Sorry Smallville has bummed you out--I'm kinda bummed out vicariously by seeing the rage on my friendslist, but since I never had any high hopes for the show's plots or character arcs, I'm a bit detached from it all.

If you're not in the right headspace to do the beta, I totally understand. As long as there's nothing egregiously wrong with the vid, I'm totally fine with throwing it up as-is. You know me, I'm no perfectionist. :)

[duskwillow.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
I'm behind with BSG so I have no idea what went on there.
And I feel like black sheep because I still have hope for SV.
But it's physically painful to see so many people on my flist so utterly hopeless and destroyed the last few days after Requiem. :(
*hugs*

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Would you mind telling my why you're unhappy with BSG? Because I bailed on the show about a season ago, but since it's come back I'll I've heard have been squee.

(I found you via a friend's friend's list, btw.)

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're disliking BSG so much. *hugs*

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I don't watch BSG so I can't really comment but ... yeah. SV. *sigh* I understand. I really do.

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

I've got burned by fandoms too, and it just never ceases to suck. I've seen only the first two seasons of BSG, wondering from time to time if I should seek out the others too, but the more I hear about them, the more hesitant I get.

[ender24]

uhmm, I have heard some pretty bad things about FNL as well... You sure you want to try to turn into that direction?
talitha made a new awesome clois vid!
go and watch! it will make you happy :D

[starryeyedmagic.livejournal.com]

I'm not all caught up on BSG yet so I can't really comment on them but I here you about SV.

I guess I'll just have to pretend things happened slightly differently in my head. I really don't understand the show's Clark/Lana fixation. I thought they were cute way back in the day but after S3 it should have been over for good in the romantic sense. The show just made her waaaaay too important.
Also, Lex isn't dead. That would just be silly. haha

[ciaan]

:( That always sucks. That's why I swore off TV after the end of QAF and S4 of SV. I mean, I came back to TV eventually, but I still don't trust it, you know? It's always gonna break your heart somehow.