Day 10 and 11
Jun. 18th, 2010 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hafitalI might as well do these two together, since they're related, and I'm behind as it is.
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
When I was first introduced to Doctor Who, to series 1, I was not impressed. It was all a little too OTT, and it read as campy to me and that prevented me from caring much about the universe. I liked and admired Christopher Eccleston very much as an actor, so I liked watching him, and I almost immediately loved Rose, but the rest of the show was difficult for me to get involved with and I only watched a few episodes and then gave it up, and only picked it back up again when I was visiting England withmelina123. And that lasted pretty much throughout my viewing of all of series 1 -- I was mildly invested, but didn't particulary care all that much. I might not have even continued watching past series 1 at all if I hadn't suffered from jetlag after our UK trip, wide awake at 3 am in the morning, and momentum carried me forward. Then Nine regenerated into Ten. I did not warm up to Tennant, somewhat stubbornly. I found him unattractive and shouty and, well, yeah, and on the whole I was still mostly underwhelmed by the episodes. Somewhere in the middle of the series, and certainly by the end, almost unconsciously, true affection for the Doctor snuck in, and then in the final episode, I fell in love. I think that's why I have such affection for series 3, because for me it was just love from start to finish, before I got involved with the fandom which inevitably ruins a show for me. I was a basket case for most of series 4, which rather broke me, and then I got over it and I'm enjoying series 5 a lot more casually this time around, which is NICE. SRSLY. Over-investing in a (live) TV show is too emotionally difficult -- it's like being held hostage or something. Anyways, Eleven is a *delightful* Doctor and I truly love watching him every week. So, that's how I didn't think I would like Doctor Who and then I did. ta da.
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
That would be Torchwood. I can forgive a lot when it comes to TV that I love. Yeah, if I'm not in love with a TV show, all of its faults are blaring and obvious and obnoxious, but if I fall in love with it, all those blemishes are justified away or don't seem important, or just plain disappear. But one has to click over into love for that to happen, and I tried with TW, I really really did, but ultimately I never could like it very much, and there were moments where I down right hated it. My own fault, I should have bailed, but I really did want to like it, I wanted to like the characters and invest in them but the show made it damned hard to do that, imo. The 5 part mini-series CoE made up for it in some part for being so excellently written, but I already didn't care about the characters so it was more an intellectual experience rather than an emotional one. And it's also not fun watching a show beat up my friend's list.
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
When I was first introduced to Doctor Who, to series 1, I was not impressed. It was all a little too OTT, and it read as campy to me and that prevented me from caring much about the universe. I liked and admired Christopher Eccleston very much as an actor, so I liked watching him, and I almost immediately loved Rose, but the rest of the show was difficult for me to get involved with and I only watched a few episodes and then gave it up, and only picked it back up again when I was visiting England with
melina123. And that lasted pretty much throughout my viewing of all of series 1 -- I was mildly invested, but didn't particulary care all that much. I might not have even continued watching past series 1 at all if I hadn't suffered from jetlag after our UK trip, wide awake at 3 am in the morning, and momentum carried me forward. Then Nine regenerated into Ten. I did not warm up to Tennant, somewhat stubbornly. I found him unattractive and shouty and, well, yeah, and on the whole I was still mostly underwhelmed by the episodes. Somewhere in the middle of the series, and certainly by the end, almost unconsciously, true affection for the Doctor snuck in, and then in the final episode, I fell in love. I think that's why I have such affection for series 3, because for me it was just love from start to finish, before I got involved with the fandom which inevitably ruins a show for me. I was a basket case for most of series 4, which rather broke me, and then I got over it and I'm enjoying series 5 a lot more casually this time around, which is NICE. SRSLY. Over-investing in a (live) TV show is too emotionally difficult -- it's like being held hostage or something. Anyways, Eleven is a *delightful* Doctor and I truly love watching him every week. So, that's how I didn't think I would like Doctor Who and then I did. ta da.Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
That would be Torchwood. I can forgive a lot when it comes to TV that I love. Yeah, if I'm not in love with a TV show, all of its faults are blaring and obvious and obnoxious, but if I fall in love with it, all those blemishes are justified away or don't seem important, or just plain disappear. But one has to click over into love for that to happen, and I tried with TW, I really really did, but ultimately I never could like it very much, and there were moments where I down right hated it. My own fault, I should have bailed, but I really did want to like it, I wanted to like the characters and invest in them but the show made it damned hard to do that, imo. The 5 part mini-series CoE made up for it in some part for being so excellently written, but I already didn't care about the characters so it was more an intellectual experience rather than an emotional one. And it's also not fun watching a show beat up my friend's list.
