She Has A Great Relationship With Her Television Set

[redbrunja]

I was just lamenting with backtothesea about the fact that I don’t have a television show that’s my fannish sweet spot.

Here is the way the television landscape lies:

Arrow: I watched four episodes, didn’t love it, may give it another try. One the one hand, the lead is really hot. On the other, they did an absolutely insulting job with Dinah Laurel Lance.

Elementary: this show is a gift. Such a gift, that the canon and people’s escatic tags on tumblr fulfill my entire fannish needs. …although I would never say no to more BDSM-y fanfics of Joan and Sherlock.

Game of Thrones: It’s hard for me to interact fannishly with this show the way I do others because I basically know what’s going to happen, so it’s hard for me to get super-invested. It takes a lot of the drama out. I’m hoping that next season, when we start to get to more narratives that diverge from the book and more storylines that I’m not spoiled for, I’ll get more invested. (It doesn’t help that I feel like only now, three seasons in, are we getting to the meat of the narrative.)

Nikita: I enjoy watching this, especially when I’m marathoning it, but I don’t have any unmet fannish needs. The perils of shipping canon and being a season and a half behind.

Once Upon A Time: still haven’t watched the last episode. Needless to say, I’m unlikely to be watching season three.

Teen Wolf: I love this show but LJ fandom is pretty non-existent, so my fannish experience is basically reblogging all the transformative fierce lady graphics.

Prospective TV for the 2013/14 season:

SHIELD
Sleepy Hollow
more Nikita?

Comments

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

My big problem with Laurel is that I came into the show already loving Black Canary, who is a badass superhero in her own right. So to see this drippy "lawyer" who wasn't even permitted by the narrative to stay angry at Oliver...? No.