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AAAUUUGH.
Why must both my shows be horribly squick-inducing this week?
I already basically said my piece about this week's SGA at Tipper's journal, and I agree with what she said, so I won't bother complaining about it here.
And then I watched Supernatural to get the taste of that out of my mouth.
Which started out all right -- a light, silly, fast-paced episode; just what I needed. Until SPN managed to prove that, as wrong as SGA can often be, SPN is always willing to go above and beyond (or ... beneath and below). When I realized what they were going to do -- that the brothers and Bobby were actually going to resolve the ghost problem by dragging to death a guy whose only real sin is that he was the victim of a hate crime ... my jaw hit the floor, and I still don't think I've managed to pick it back up. I mean ... the part of the episode where the guy's brother was talking about him being dragged to death was chilling and horrible precisely because this has been done to people in real life, for similar reasons, recently. There's no way that you can watch it and not get that stomach-twisting reminder. It's trivializing enough just to use it as a plot point in an episode, but then to re-enact it for the audience's benefit, and invite us to cheer on our heroes while they do it ... um, no. I feel ill now. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT, SPN.
The only positive benefit is that I now feel less frustrated and awful about SGA. At least it's not SPN.
I already basically said my piece about this week's SGA at Tipper's journal, and I agree with what she said, so I won't bother complaining about it here.
And then I watched Supernatural to get the taste of that out of my mouth.
Which started out all right -- a light, silly, fast-paced episode; just what I needed. Until SPN managed to prove that, as wrong as SGA can often be, SPN is always willing to go above and beyond (or ... beneath and below). When I realized what they were going to do -- that the brothers and Bobby were actually going to resolve the ghost problem by dragging to death a guy whose only real sin is that he was the victim of a hate crime ... my jaw hit the floor, and I still don't think I've managed to pick it back up. I mean ... the part of the episode where the guy's brother was talking about him being dragged to death was chilling and horrible precisely because this has been done to people in real life, for similar reasons, recently. There's no way that you can watch it and not get that stomach-twisting reminder. It's trivializing enough just to use it as a plot point in an episode, but then to re-enact it for the audience's benefit, and invite us to cheer on our heroes while they do it ... um, no. I feel ill now. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT, SPN.
The only positive benefit is that I now feel less frustrated and awful about SGA. At least it's not SPN.
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Actually, I haven't read that many episode reactions to Inquisition and one of the first I read was
Keeping to the periphery of fandom has helped me enjoy SGA and SPN a whole lot more. I know people who have opinions on the shows that I actually find interesting and valid (I don't always agree with them, but they don't usually spew forth mindless hate) and I stick to reading those opinions - or non-fandom opinions. Saves me the trouble of getting annoyed with some of the fandom idiocy out there.
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I still enjoy a good debate - and there are certainly people who dislike certain aspects, episodes, characters, etc who are worth debating with, but out-and-out hate-fests do nothing but destroy my squee. There is s difference between voice a well reason dislike of something and a lot of the ranting that goes on in fandom.
And it's really quite awful that fandom could dent your squee for an episode as gorgeous as "Shrine". Seriously, when fandom can damage a fan's love of their favourite episodes, the relationship is getting unhealthy. Stepping back a bit sounds like a good idea.