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I'd really love to call The Wild Wild West my guilty pleasure show and have done with it. I mean, the plots are bizarre, it's generally really campy, and a lot of the time I finish with an episode and I'm not a 100% percent sure why most of it happened. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
misssunbeam said it best: "One bad thing about WWW: the plots are impossible to coherently describe. One good thing about WWW: while you’re watching the eps, they’re so entertaining that you’re okay with the incoherence.") If there's better candidate for a guilty pleasure show, I can't think of one, especially since it's a really problematic show for me both generally and personally. Failing that, I'd call it my latest TV show obsession, because this really all happened because I saw it and my brain decided that I needed to write all the fanfiction. My WWW to non-WWW fic ratio: 8 to 3. And I haven't finished the really long ones yet. Sniff.
But it really is my favorite. It's crazy and funny and action-y, and it's very possibly the slashiest damn show on God's green earth. It's full of eccentric side characters, bizarre locales (like a clown themed bar instead of regular bar, apparently so they could use a trained seal act), fight scenes with continuity goofs that let you know you're a perv (Jim falls down. Jim gets up. Jim's butt is dusty. Next cut- it's not dusty anymore. Trust me, guys, it was the first place I looked), and hot men in ridiculously tight pants. More importantly (if there is anything more important than hot men in tight pants), days six and seven are favorite and least favorite episodes of a favorite show, and I want to answer with WWW- so there.
To briefly redeem myself, however, I'd like to say that the best and most loveable show I think I've seen- even though I never felt with the teeniest urge to connect with it fannishly and thus don't love it in the same way I do WWW- is probably Slings and Arrows. It's a wonderfully acted and scripted show, with great characters and a consistent build over its three seasons. I love the development of Geoffrey Tennant (an actor and director of questionable sanity) over the course of the three years, and I love the struggles we see each season as a play is painstakingly put on. As a Shakespeare fangirl, I love the riffs on what makes his works timeless (and what makes them such a source of obsession for the people who love them). As a Shakespearean actress, I love how familiar to me the characters and situations are. But I also love the touches of magic, the way the show never gets entirely bogged down by realism, and the fact that at its heart it's a show about a director struggling with the ghost of his predecessor both literally and metaphorically (and the fact that said predecessor, Oliver, is in love with him, even if Geoffrey never quite figures that out).
Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled
Day 02 - A show that needs more viewers
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired THIS TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
I'd really love to call The Wild Wild West my guilty pleasure show and have done with it. I mean, the plots are bizarre, it's generally really campy, and a lot of the time I finish with an episode and I'm not a 100% percent sure why most of it happened. (
misssunbeam said it best: "One bad thing about WWW: the plots are impossible to coherently describe. One good thing about WWW: while you’re watching the eps, they’re so entertaining that you’re okay with the incoherence.") If there's better candidate for a guilty pleasure show, I can't think of one, especially since it's a really problematic show for me both generally and personally. Failing that, I'd call it my latest TV show obsession, because this really all happened because I saw it and my brain decided that I needed to write all the fanfiction. My WWW to non-WWW fic ratio: 8 to 3. And I haven't finished the really long ones yet. Sniff.But it really is my favorite. It's crazy and funny and action-y, and it's very possibly the slashiest damn show on God's green earth. It's full of eccentric side characters, bizarre locales (like a clown themed bar instead of regular bar, apparently so they could use a trained seal act), fight scenes with continuity goofs that let you know you're a perv (Jim falls down. Jim gets up. Jim's butt is dusty. Next cut- it's not dusty anymore. Trust me, guys, it was the first place I looked), and hot men in ridiculously tight pants. More importantly (if there is anything more important than hot men in tight pants), days six and seven are favorite and least favorite episodes of a favorite show, and I want to answer with WWW- so there.
To briefly redeem myself, however, I'd like to say that the best and most loveable show I think I've seen- even though I never felt with the teeniest urge to connect with it fannishly and thus don't love it in the same way I do WWW- is probably Slings and Arrows. It's a wonderfully acted and scripted show, with great characters and a consistent build over its three seasons. I love the development of Geoffrey Tennant (an actor and director of questionable sanity) over the course of the three years, and I love the struggles we see each season as a play is painstakingly put on. As a Shakespeare fangirl, I love the riffs on what makes his works timeless (and what makes them such a source of obsession for the people who love them). As a Shakespearean actress, I love how familiar to me the characters and situations are. But I also love the touches of magic, the way the show never gets entirely bogged down by realism, and the fact that at its heart it's a show about a director struggling with the ghost of his predecessor both literally and metaphorically (and the fact that said predecessor, Oliver, is in love with him, even if Geoffrey never quite figures that out).
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you’ve watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite mini series
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale
Day 23 - Most annoying character
Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death
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Date: 2014-01-20 03:49 am (UTC)As do you, it seems! *Beams*
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