bsg finale, or what i learned at the rodeo

[jlh]

For a lot of reasons, I made the decision to make myself watch this show. There were many points at which I didn't enjoy it, but I pressed on. I've just watched the finale, and that didn't change my opinion. So the biggest thing I learned is that I'm never going to do that again; no matter who is doing the recommending, if it doesn't seem like something I might like, I'm not going to watch it.

Getting over initial impressions about people is totally worth it. Trying to do that with tv shows/movies/books, not so much.

I'm not sure I actually have anything at all to say about the finale itself, mostly because I didn't have a lot of expectations of it, so it couldn't be "satisfying" or "unsatisfying" in that way. All I can say is, I didn't think it was well done.

I really love mysteries and romances, so if you'd like to recommend any of those, I'll be listening!

Comments

[sisterpandora.livejournal.com]

I'm still working to catch up, but I'm sorry it turned out poorly for you. I have a weakness for Space Operas, but will do my best to keep the reins tight when it comes to future series recommendations.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

You actually never recommended the show to me and were surprised when I started watching it, so no worries. But yeah, not an action gal.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I never get pushing shows I love on other people who aren't really into them. I mean, saying they should check it out of they haven't heard of it or I think they might like it, sure. But pushing it after they haven't much cared for it? That seems counter-productive. Because they're probably not going to like it, and now not only do have the slight downer of knowing somebody doesn't love the show so we can't connect over that, I know that I made the show into a bad experience for someone.

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, I take a portion of blame on myself for buying into a series of assertions that got me to this place, and I'm annoyed that I did that? But I've definitely learned, again, that I do not like dark things, and that was the biggest part that put me off the show, the unrelenting bleakness, which people who liked it, liked.

There must be a happy medium between chafing against external definitions of who you are—all that being a good fangirl stuff—and throwing off the label entirely. It's like this thing on f!s about the SciFi—>SyFy thing. I find that geeks just identify so closely with what they're watching/reading/etc that to say you don't like it is like insulting them directly, and yet they have no problems insulting things that they think stand outside of the "good" geek things, like romance fiction, or anything mainstream or "mundane". Just because I wasn't playing table top RP games in high school doesn't mean I was that snobby cheerleader—and even if I was, I'm obviously not that now.

Just another way I find the geek persecution complex to be frustrating! And it isn't so much online as in real life, too!