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withdiamonds at 11:20am on 19/05/2008
withdiamonds at 11:20am on 19/05/2008
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Hahah, I've been so non-productive today. Lar's on call, I have nowhere to go, I'm not even going to get dressed. I did unpack from the weekend and give Neville a bath, but that's it.
Neville loves the hairdryer so much. We were all finished, he was dry and brushed and he just kept sitting there until I turned it back on and let him roll around in the warm air for another ten minutes.
Not so cute is the way that it's one of those days when we've been outside every hour on the hour and he's managed to go to the bathroom in the house three times and outside once.
His favorite place to poop is overrun with chipmunks, so he's too distracted to focus. Okay, his second favorite place to poop. My dining room is free of rodents, thank you.
I've been doing some more thinking. You're welcome.
I agree that Supernatural has been much coarser this season than the past two. More language, more gore - more gore at the expense of horror, actually. Shallow characters, lazy motivations. I'm attributing this to the CW's desire to attract a demographic that it never will, no matter how hard it tries. It wants the 18-24 year old men. That's not fandom. (It's also a bit insulting to 18-24 year old men.) But the demographic that fandom consists of isn't particularly attractive. We're not impulse buyers and we're brand-loyal.
I read a review of No Rest For the Wicked and it said something about kudos to Jensen for portraying Dean's emotions without bellowing. I bow to no one in my love for Jensen Ackles, but Dean has bellowed a lot this season. I know why, but I prefer my manpain a little quieter, really. But there has been a bit of a dumbing down/coarsening up of things this season, and that's one aspect of it.
It's easy to blame the strike for how inconsistent and weird this season has been, but I think the network poking its nose in hasn't helped at all, and has probably put the writers in the position where they've kind of had to do what they've done this season.
Here's my point, though. I find it amusing how the networks never learn. There's a particular kind of show, one that they think is a guys' kind of show, with guns and explosions and gross stuff and action, and the networks produce and air these shows in their innocence and ignorance, and then they're always so surprised when they attract a predominantly female audience. (Pet Fly, I'm talking to you.)
Shows like The Sentinel and Starsky and Hutch and Star Trek and Smallville and dueSouth and Highlander and Supernatural are never going to attract the audience the networks think they will, or at least not exclusively. And they never learn and they just keep making the same mistake over and over again and then they're all oh noes, women viewers! Whatever shall we do?!?
Neville loves the hairdryer so much. We were all finished, he was dry and brushed and he just kept sitting there until I turned it back on and let him roll around in the warm air for another ten minutes.
Not so cute is the way that it's one of those days when we've been outside every hour on the hour and he's managed to go to the bathroom in the house three times and outside once.
His favorite place to poop is overrun with chipmunks, so he's too distracted to focus. Okay, his second favorite place to poop. My dining room is free of rodents, thank you.
I've been doing some more thinking. You're welcome.
I agree that Supernatural has been much coarser this season than the past two. More language, more gore - more gore at the expense of horror, actually. Shallow characters, lazy motivations. I'm attributing this to the CW's desire to attract a demographic that it never will, no matter how hard it tries. It wants the 18-24 year old men. That's not fandom. (It's also a bit insulting to 18-24 year old men.) But the demographic that fandom consists of isn't particularly attractive. We're not impulse buyers and we're brand-loyal.
I read a review of No Rest For the Wicked and it said something about kudos to Jensen for portraying Dean's emotions without bellowing. I bow to no one in my love for Jensen Ackles, but Dean has bellowed a lot this season. I know why, but I prefer my manpain a little quieter, really. But there has been a bit of a dumbing down/coarsening up of things this season, and that's one aspect of it.
It's easy to blame the strike for how inconsistent and weird this season has been, but I think the network poking its nose in hasn't helped at all, and has probably put the writers in the position where they've kind of had to do what they've done this season.
Here's my point, though. I find it amusing how the networks never learn. There's a particular kind of show, one that they think is a guys' kind of show, with guns and explosions and gross stuff and action, and the networks produce and air these shows in their innocence and ignorance, and then they're always so surprised when they attract a predominantly female audience. (Pet Fly, I'm talking to you.)
Shows like The Sentinel and Starsky and Hutch and Star Trek and Smallville and dueSouth and Highlander and Supernatural are never going to attract the audience the networks think they will, or at least not exclusively. And they never learn and they just keep making the same mistake over and over again and then they're all oh noes, women viewers! Whatever shall we do?!?
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