![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bop_radarIf 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.
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.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-02-08 12:42 am (UTC)SAME.
It's unbelievable. I thought I could withstand anything! I mean it's not like the show hasn't had its lows before now.
I too have been thinking that humour is the only way to deal with this ...
And with my other show, I'm already the other side of having done that, and finding it hard to find ANY humour. So I'm not betting this method will be all that successful. Everything tastes like ashes.
no subject
Date: 2009-02-08 10:20 am (UTC)Yes, absolutely. I'm looking forward reading it. I have a feeling I'll just be sadly nodding along.
The finding humour suggestion was more about how to deal with the remainder of the series (once the stage of shock and rage passes) and being able to enjoy the creative work of talented authors, vidders etc. in SV fandom again. I'm not ready to let that go, so I pretty much have to find an effective way of dealing with it. And humour is as good as I can come up with right now, but I agree, it may not be successful long-term.
Those icons are both hilarious and really really sad.