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Feb. 5th, 2003 12:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockNew thing I've learned tonight. Or possibly just had reinforced.
Watching Buffy with the parents is not good. I no longer feel self-conscious about it (thank god), but they're annoying. They keep asking canon questions in the middle of important dialogue. Questions they woudln't have to ask if they'd pay attention to the whole episode while it's on. For instance, if they'd bothered to listen during the "Previously on..." then I wouldn't have had to spend commercials and some ep time explaining the whole Willow/Tara/Warren/Kennedy thing. And they make noise. They talk and shuffle and do things in the background that they wouldn't be doing if we were all watchign West Wing or 24.
Basically, it's distracting, and keeps me from getting fully immersed in what I'm watching. I have to rewatch the ep now cause I missed some of the B/S dialogue, and the Giles dialogue.
Rats.
And to top it off, my dad actually said out loud:
"I've been trying to think of why this is successful and Charmed isn't."
Evil. Heresy.
Spewing from the mouth of my own blood kin.
"Because one's better written and better acted."
"Is it?" Fume. Silent, horrid, fuming. Smoke from ears, but hiding it well.
"Yes. I only started this last year, but I get totally interested in it. Charmed is cute, but I can walk out of an episode at any moment and not think about it again ever. Buffy I have to stay and see what happens."
"But they're the same concept, right?" That's my head, right there imbedded in the wall. Can you see it?
"No. Charmed is a rip-off. It came after, by about 3 years. And it's not as popular because it's not as good."
"So it's a spin-off then?"
"No. It came way later, and tried to get the same audience. But it's boring."
Finally. Commercial time over. Oh, look! Saved by Gun!Happy!Willow. Good. Evil, blasphemous conversation is over now.
Watching Buffy with the parents is not good. I no longer feel self-conscious about it (thank god), but they're annoying. They keep asking canon questions in the middle of important dialogue. Questions they woudln't have to ask if they'd pay attention to the whole episode while it's on. For instance, if they'd bothered to listen during the "Previously on..." then I wouldn't have had to spend commercials and some ep time explaining the whole Willow/Tara/Warren/Kennedy thing. And they make noise. They talk and shuffle and do things in the background that they wouldn't be doing if we were all watchign West Wing or 24.
Basically, it's distracting, and keeps me from getting fully immersed in what I'm watching. I have to rewatch the ep now cause I missed some of the B/S dialogue, and the Giles dialogue.
Rats.
And to top it off, my dad actually said out loud:
"I've been trying to think of why this is successful and Charmed isn't."
Evil. Heresy.
Spewing from the mouth of my own blood kin.
"Because one's better written and better acted."
"Is it?" Fume. Silent, horrid, fuming. Smoke from ears, but hiding it well.
"Yes. I only started this last year, but I get totally interested in it. Charmed is cute, but I can walk out of an episode at any moment and not think about it again ever. Buffy I have to stay and see what happens."
"But they're the same concept, right?" That's my head, right there imbedded in the wall. Can you see it?
"No. Charmed is a rip-off. It came after, by about 3 years. And it's not as popular because it's not as good."
"So it's a spin-off then?"
"No. It came way later, and tried to get the same audience. But it's boring."
Finally. Commercial time over. Oh, look! Saved by Gun!Happy!Willow. Good. Evil, blasphemous conversation is over now.
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Date: 2003-02-05 01:56 am (UTC)