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How to fix a broken fangirl
Step one: Hang out with other fen! I had lunch yesterday with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
livrelibre and thingswithwings, who are very nice and very fun to hang out with; we had a good time and then livrelibre took me to the campus art museum to see a talk on Japanese surimono prints, after which we hung out at the museum for a while looking at the Asian art wing. Among other things, we talked about SGA and fic and things of that nature, and it really helped a lot to remind me what I loved about the fandom and the show in the first place. (Which reminds me that I haven't posted *anything* about the completely awesome and happymaking NYC excursion with derry667 and tipper_green earlier this month! Derry has pictures up at her journal. Fangirl tours FTW!)
Step two: Squee!
The really funny thing about watching a show I haven't seen for twenty years is when I remember things wrong.
My sister and I both remembered the Lynchboro storyline ending in major catastrophe and death. Since that's how most of the Wiseguy story arcs end, it's not an unreasonable assumption, but it was making it extremely nail-biting to watch these episodes, because these characters are really likeable (even Volchek in his heartbreaking crazy way), and the more we saw of them, the more we wanted a happy ending for them and the more we were convinced they weren't going to get one.
But they did! And, okay, the Scrooging of Volchek was monumentally silly, and we couldn't believe it actually worked (we were both yelling "Bad idea! Bad idea!" at the screen during the scene where Lococco suggested it). But all the reconciliations, and Volchek finally shaking himself free of his domineering father, and Rogo being so adorably protective of him at the fight, and Lacey being so pragmatic about her happy ending ... oh, EVERYONE. This was absolutely the happy ending that I needed right now. I think that Wiseguy makes me appreciate happy endings much more than a lot of shows; if they're always handed a positive outcome, there's no suspense, no sense that they earned it. But on this show, so often they don't get one, or their victories are spectacularly Pyrrhic, so to have the episode end with all the single-arc characters alive and well and loving each other, especially when I was absolutely convinced there was betrayal and death in their future -- well, I'm still floating around on a cloud of warm, happy fan-glow.
I'm not precisely done with the series. We skipped ahead from the middle of season two to the last arc of season three, because my sister (and fandom enabler for the show) had stopped in the middle of the arc so that she could watch it with me, and we wanted to make sure we got it done before I have to go home. We have a few more episodes from the earlier seasons that are downloaded to be watched, and then I'll be on my own to hunt down the remaining story arcs and get caught up.
livrelibre and thingswithwings, who are very nice and very fun to hang out with; we had a good time and then livrelibre took me to the campus art museum to see a talk on Japanese surimono prints, after which we hung out at the museum for a while looking at the Asian art wing. Among other things, we talked about SGA and fic and things of that nature, and it really helped a lot to remind me what I loved about the fandom and the show in the first place. (Which reminds me that I haven't posted *anything* about the completely awesome and happymaking NYC excursion with derry667 and tipper_green earlier this month! Derry has pictures up at her journal. Fangirl tours FTW!)Step two: Squee!
The really funny thing about watching a show I haven't seen for twenty years is when I remember things wrong.
My sister and I both remembered the Lynchboro storyline ending in major catastrophe and death. Since that's how most of the Wiseguy story arcs end, it's not an unreasonable assumption, but it was making it extremely nail-biting to watch these episodes, because these characters are really likeable (even Volchek in his heartbreaking crazy way), and the more we saw of them, the more we wanted a happy ending for them and the more we were convinced they weren't going to get one.
But they did! And, okay, the Scrooging of Volchek was monumentally silly, and we couldn't believe it actually worked (we were both yelling "Bad idea! Bad idea!" at the screen during the scene where Lococco suggested it). But all the reconciliations, and Volchek finally shaking himself free of his domineering father, and Rogo being so adorably protective of him at the fight, and Lacey being so pragmatic about her happy ending ... oh, EVERYONE. This was absolutely the happy ending that I needed right now. I think that Wiseguy makes me appreciate happy endings much more than a lot of shows; if they're always handed a positive outcome, there's no suspense, no sense that they earned it. But on this show, so often they don't get one, or their victories are spectacularly Pyrrhic, so to have the episode end with all the single-arc characters alive and well and loving each other, especially when I was absolutely convinced there was betrayal and death in their future -- well, I'm still floating around on a cloud of warm, happy fan-glow.
I'm not precisely done with the series. We skipped ahead from the middle of season two to the last arc of season three, because my sister (and fandom enabler for the show) had stopped in the middle of the arc so that she could watch it with me, and we wanted to make sure we got it done before I have to go home. We have a few more episodes from the earlier seasons that are downloaded to be watched, and then I'll be on my own to hunt down the remaining story arcs and get caught up.
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Happy holidays!