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Humanity has a screw loose, man.
Crap. I missed mah TS3 meeting. Didn't realize this until I was at Red Lobster waiting for my Kahlua cappucino to arrive. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. That was a little slice of heaven right there. To you, Jake. Okay, to me. But happy thoughts sent your way.
Now I have to laugh my freakin' arse off and not reply. Backstory first. Some nitwit [if it's someone I normally respect, you might want to just not tell me because I'll lose all respect for you, whoever you could have been] is blaming Shannen Doherty for Tru Calling being yanked from it's scheduled premiere date. Which, technically a sane person could make a relatively sound arguement for in that if she weren't joining North Shore, they might not feel it should have TC's timeslot. But no. This person's response when I asked why even fucking mention her political affiliation? Behold!
[them](BTW_republican is not the problem, it is the fact that she is a
hypocritical bi-atch that IS!)[/them]
[me] So, uh, why mention her political affiliation? [/me]
[them in all their glory!] Actually, I believe there are conservative political forces at work changing the course of television programming. Notice the loss of strong female heroes (buffy, xena, dark angel, now tru--ok we have jennifer garner, but she is also so traditionally female and vulnerable in so many ways, and I for one have never found the show inspiring in that regard, but then I don't watch it, so maybe I speak too hastily), as well as the move away from science-fiction and into brain-dead "reality" and "strongly traditional heterosexual" soap-opera type dramas (the OC reminds me a bit of Dynasty in the Regan era). I think it is a conservative plot to keep us from "thinking" or questioning things (as sci-fi so creatively does), and it is obvious that many shows where the star speaks out freely in non-conservative ways (like politically incorrect) are axed.
Just my 2 cents of watching television trends and political ones.[/them]
... You could get me on board with the ridding the airwaves of strong female leads carrying their own shows. You could... if the same fucking trend hadn't been everywhere in the media in the late 90's and not also died a horrific death too. Comic books cashed in the most and they all [mostly, anyway] folded. Couldn't sustain what could have/should have been a bunch of good ideas. Movies tried. They gave up. TV goes in cycles. It sucks, yes. Some of it might be attributed to political conservaticism, but the fact still remains:
None of that is Shannen's freakin' fault. I so want to respond with this: "... Oh. My. God. You're right. Shannen Doherty is single handedly responsible for the downfall of Buffy, Xena, and the 'kick ass in more ways than one' heroine. All because she's a Republican. How could I have been so blind? How?"
*makes a strangling motion in the general direction of this moron*
Sometimes...
So thirsty. Sooooo thirsty. But I did get to give Cass her present. :D Yay!
Now I have to laugh my freakin' arse off and not reply. Backstory first. Some nitwit [if it's someone I normally respect, you might want to just not tell me because I'll lose all respect for you, whoever you could have been] is blaming Shannen Doherty for Tru Calling being yanked from it's scheduled premiere date. Which, technically a sane person could make a relatively sound arguement for in that if she weren't joining North Shore, they might not feel it should have TC's timeslot. But no. This person's response when I asked why even fucking mention her political affiliation? Behold!
[them](BTW_republican is not the problem, it is the fact that she is a
hypocritical bi-atch that IS!)[/them]
[me] So, uh, why mention her political affiliation? [/me]
[them in all their glory!] Actually, I believe there are conservative political forces at work changing the course of television programming. Notice the loss of strong female heroes (buffy, xena, dark angel, now tru--ok we have jennifer garner, but she is also so traditionally female and vulnerable in so many ways, and I for one have never found the show inspiring in that regard, but then I don't watch it, so maybe I speak too hastily), as well as the move away from science-fiction and into brain-dead "reality" and "strongly traditional heterosexual" soap-opera type dramas (the OC reminds me a bit of Dynasty in the Regan era). I think it is a conservative plot to keep us from "thinking" or questioning things (as sci-fi so creatively does), and it is obvious that many shows where the star speaks out freely in non-conservative ways (like politically incorrect) are axed.
Just my 2 cents of watching television trends and political ones.[/them]
... You could get me on board with the ridding the airwaves of strong female leads carrying their own shows. You could... if the same fucking trend hadn't been everywhere in the media in the late 90's and not also died a horrific death too. Comic books cashed in the most and they all [mostly, anyway] folded. Couldn't sustain what could have/should have been a bunch of good ideas. Movies tried. They gave up. TV goes in cycles. It sucks, yes. Some of it might be attributed to political conservaticism, but the fact still remains:
None of that is Shannen's freakin' fault. I so want to respond with this: "... Oh. My. God. You're right. Shannen Doherty is single handedly responsible for the downfall of Buffy, Xena, and the 'kick ass in more ways than one' heroine. All because she's a Republican. How could I have been so blind? How?"
*makes a strangling motion in the general direction of this moron*
Sometimes...
So thirsty. Sooooo thirsty. But I did get to give Cass her present. :D Yay!