Green Room - Week 36 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Today is a busy day in Idol-land, so I'll cut right to business:

We had the results of the Quick Fire last night: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/834094.html

and today is the deadline to get in your entry in! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/832879.html

How do you know if you have or not? Because if you haven't - you are being shamed!!! :) http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/834503.html


Tonight is also the deadline for getting in your votes for the Spirit of LJ Idol, Season 9. So far, 6 of the eligible 11 contestants have turned in their ballots. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/832594.html

For any of those remaining voters - I'm sure you are planning on getting in your votes, and are just thinking about how you want to rank everyone to best reflect your feelings.

If, for some reason, you don't vote - I'll have to turn it over to my dog.

This morning, I asked Foxy who she wanted to vote for - and showed her the list of candidates.

Apparently, the person remaining who best represents what this season has been about is a bunch of lion cubs playing. (on one of her favorite shows: Big Cat Diary)

She was *very* passionate about that choice. It had all of her attention, and she excitedly grabbed her rope and swung it back and forth in between barks.

Now, clearly, a bunch of lion cubs playing is a great choice and will represent Idol well.

But if it's not YOUR choice - you should probably get your ballot in!

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What shows make *you* grab your rope and excitedly bark at the screen?

Comments

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I'm going to take your question literally and say that the last ten, fifteen years of TV have transformed serialized television storytelling into an art form that is simply glorious to partake in. We are living in halcyon days.

So, I bark like a crazy dog for shows that surpass every imaginable expectation of what TV could be, should be, has become. The Sopranos, Deadwood, True Detective, Breaking Bad, Hannibal....

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

My niece has started binge-watching LOST.


She spent all weekend on it.

Which is why her Mom keeps driving her crazy telling her that "It's NOT Penny's Boat" and explaining "You'll find out what that means". :)

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha!! I ENRAGE folks with my take on that crazy life-sucking show. I was so JUSTIFIED with that final episode I literally leapt off the couch and fist-pumped.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

*nods* It was absolutely *the right ending* for it.

I've never quite understood the negative reaction. Made me think that I must have been watching a completely different show! :)

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

*high fives*

I think that phenom of "are we watching the same show" can be two-fold, or three-fold....or maybe an origami-folding. When viewers feel they cannot trust the writers, things get heated up really fast. Fandoms can take over an otherwise on-track story and derail it for other fans and sometimes for the writers themselves! Stories that take years to unfold get wrinkly.

*more coffee*

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Which brings up something from yesterday - the idea of fans "having their version" of a show/series of books in their fanfic.

I wonder how much of that started from "not trusting the writers" and how much of it is "I can do that too!" (taking the story and making it your own)

Do you think that is going to impact storytelling in the future? Will writers rooms become comment sections? ;)

(OK, not that last part - I just liked the line. :D)

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

This is a serious. And complicated. Seriously complicated question. I am not savvy enough to think deeply about these sorts of cultural shifts but if you have strong essays, link me, please! Because I love to read the thoughts of others regarding entertainment and Art as entertainment...and Entertainment as Art.

I think YES. Absolutely. I think it already has. The entire phenom of fanfiction is just....astonishing, really. The phenom of cons and how seriously we have begun to take serialized television....

I'm surprised we haven't seen more experimentation with storytelling in prose form. It's all happening on TV.

*stares*

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I think some of the drive of fanfiction (or at least, what got me writing it instead of reading it) was filling in the holes in canon.

Yes, the slash was a big eventual draw too, but I was happy just reading that. Until I hit shows I was passionate about, where characters were horribly underwritten. I started out by writing 'underneath' the canon. Then it was "offscreen stuff" and "extras." It was years before I ventured into writing pre-canon, partly because it's such an excellent way to get Jossed. And sometimes, I did.

There are whole aspects of some shows I watch where I just can't buy into some of the canon events, and that more often leads to not only not 'fixing' it in fanfiction, but sometimes killing my love for the show. Rarely, but the chance is there...

[watching-ships.livejournal.com]

YOU. ARE. MY. PEOPLE.

No, really. LOST was it for me, the entire run, and I loved the finale. Loved it.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Loved the show, not so much the finale.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Hee! The finale made all that came before so very, very worthwhile.

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

YES. Too often we denigrate modern television instead of celebrating the awesomeness of it.


I've always obsessed passionately over tv, pulling things apart and putting them back together. My current obsessions include Sherlock and Marvel-verse and (I say with the tentativeness of knowing every time it goes well it becomes sh*t again) The Originals is awesome at the moment.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Why do I always forget Sherlock when I'm listing shows? It just doesn't stay with me for some reason....

Glad you've got "shows"! I'm slightly bereft at the moment.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Because it takes so long to get here and then it's over so quickly? ;)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Hahaha-- that's true. Though I was lucky to finally watch it within 4-5 months of S3 starting.

OTOH, S3 took some turns I didn't care for, so I'm probably trying to forget it altogether...

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

Maybe the awesomeness of Sherlock causes it to blank itself from your mind ;).

Hopefully you'll find some shows soon. Have you tried watching Revenge, or The 100? I think you might like them.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

I have Revenge queued....because Tommy. But haven't watched yet. I'm cleansing my palette with the unfuckingbelievably funny "New Girl" and am caught up now. (You should have TOLD me....about....)

Waiting for Hannibal, Justified is looking strong, and The Walking Dead this weekend. But....this time last year was all about the endless possibilities of TWD and I'm sad remembering it.

[swirlsofblue.livejournal.com]

*Hee* I'd never tell ;). New Girl is one of the shows I'm watching on UK time, so only at the end of season 3. Haven't seen any of season 4 yet. Though there's plenty pre-season 4 you could be speaking about :D.

Ah, yes, it's always very sad (and frustrating) looking back on a show that was once good and is now...not as good. I have that feeling about so many shows. It almost seems as if, if a show goes on long enough, it eventually goes down hill.

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Love New Girl,and not just because I have had friends like her.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

It is one of the funniest shows I've ever seen - right up there with The Office. Schmidt!!!!

Zooey and Jake are treasures. Absolute treasures.

[watching-ships.livejournal.com]

Got a little sniffly when I heard Hannibal isn't returning until the summer. I need it now.

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

WHAT??? I am so out of the loop!

[watching-ships.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's an exact date yet, but it usually returns...sometime around now and I got curious.

http://screencrush.com/hannibal-season-3-premiere-summer-2015/

And look at this:

Just the other day, ‘Hannibal’ also announced that ‘The Hobbit’ star Richard Armitage would take the role of Francis Dolarhyde / “The Tooth Fairy"

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

Wow. Whoa. That's all crazy. Hmmmmm.....

Hannibal is one of those shows....that has truly given me pause. Is that entertainment? Is it uncomfortable Art? What is with this modern obsession with brutal and vicious and very individualized murder?

[alycewilson.livejournal.com]

Just as well. I have waaaay too much in my Hulu queue as it is.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

!!! At least it IS returning. I thought it had been cancelled, and was not happy about that.

This is all good news to me!