Hero That Never Carried The O, Guess I'm Just Her

If a show is written well, I’m not watching it just for a specific character or couple.

So it doesn’t bother me if they don’t have a lot of lines that episode or aren’t even in it, because the show is done well enough that I’m entertained regardless. I only do the whole “let me know when ___ is on because I don’t feel like watching otherwise” if the show is terrible besides that character or actor or this is the only place i can see the actor. That speaks volumes about the quality of the show….

Examples… I LOVE Grey’s Anatomy.  There are so many characters I enjoy watching that it doesn’t bother me if Cristina is missing for a couple of episodes or Calzona isn’t really focused on for a little while or Bailey or Callie are in the background or the Twisted Sisters aren’t interacting and I don’t have any new material for Japril or Jackson in general and Mark is gone.. as long as ALL of this isn’t happening simultaneously. The show is done well.

I LOVE Once Upon A Time… the only episode that had me a little like …. please get these women off of my screen… was the most recent episode and that was because the wolfpack was actually terrible at acting.  Other than that, they’ve done a marvelous job at picking the right people for the roles. Charming/David is a little annoying and the kid is getting on my nerves at times (he needs to turn evil soon or something… or just stop being all Lexie Grey with the pestering so i’ll care when things happen to him) but everyone else is doing a bangarang job. So i’m fine when it isn’t all about Regina or Snow or Emma or Rumple but just uses them to move the story along at times.

Scandal is the one i’m starting to worry about because they’re pulling a Glee on me. I’m interested in several characters but they seem to be getting pushed to the background a little too often. I’m noticing a lot of focus on Quinn, Abbey, and the prosecutor. I’m not here for it. I want Olivia, Cyrus, the wife, Fitz, Huck, and Columbus Short aka the Season 1 focal points.

I hate Glee. Glee was an ensemble show and then it became about Rachel Berry and Blaine Anderson. That would be ok if the show was written well and I cared about these characters. But neither is true. Because the craftsmaship of the writing/producing/lighting/editing/song-choice is so terrible, I had to rely on who gave me the best performances… who could sing and make me believe it? Who could dance and make me feel it?  Answers: Mercedes, Santana, Mike, and Brittany.  So I was watching strictly for Mercedes, Santana, Mike, Brittany… and what eventually became the Trouble Tones, Brittana, and Samcedes (this is basically different combinations of these people or their relationships). Guess who’s not really there anymore?… Mercedes, Santana, and Mike. But even before now, they completely shifted the focus in season 2… that’s when it became Rachel Berry and Destiny’s prom dumpster babies… with the lack of Beyonce-level talent.

I watch Private Practice for one character/couple now that Naomi and Dell are gone… that character is Charlotte King. I tolerate Cooper when he’s in “being a great man for Charlotte and dad for Mason” mode. Sheldon and Amelia are also awesome when they wrestle screen from Addison. Other than that, not really here for this show anymore. It was written well and then it wasn’t. too much whiny women - Addison and Violet - taking the attention away from the ensemble and not even making me interested in them.

Bottom line… if the ensemble is written well and doesn’t become the equivalent of doo-wop for one whiny chick, I’ll most likely continue to love it and won’t be on some immature “THERE WAS NO ____ IN THIS EPISODE. I’M SO DONE!” blah blah blah foolishness because I probably stopped watching the night of a while ago anyway if it got to that point.

the worshiping of blonde hair and blue eyes is real.

people think you should just be amazed that someone whose blonde and blue loves you and if you’re attracted to someone else who doesn’t look like that there’s something wrong with you. If you don’t spend every second kissing its ass, there’s something wrong with you. If you recognize the faults of that individual, you’re mean and hateful and ungrateful…. UNGRATEFUL.

if you’re blonde and blue, apparently you’re “perfect”, “innocent”, automatically good, and any wrong you do is somebody else’s fault.

for evidence, just take a look at any fandom that includes a person with these features or the way these people are described in comparison to others who don’t have those features. For stronger evidence take a look at people who favor a different pairing simply because the other person is blonde and blue (or close enough).

It’s a form of White Supremacy that even affects Whites, being their version of colorism.

And it’s not just a problem of fandoms… they’re just more open about their psychological deficiencies.

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A new game explained

A group of people come up to you saying they need another player for this game.  One of them explains it.

“So there’s this small ball that one player is going to throw really fast at you right. You have this big paddle and you gotta hit the ball. Then you drop the paddle and run to this base. If the player standing there catches the ball in their glove and touches the base before you do, you’re out. You got three total bases to touch and then try to get back to where you hit the ball from before either you or any 3 players on your team are out, ok. cool? cool.”

So then you hit the ball. You drop the paddle and run to the base. You get there before anyone gets you out. SUDDENLY these mofos drop the gloves and start putting on football padding with these huge ass helmets. You’re looking around like “wtf part of the game is THIS?” They start chasing after your ass. You stiff arm and duck and dive. You almost get back to the beginning spot and suddenly a 12 foot basketball goal erects from the earth like Will Schuester’s viagra just kicked in…

They tell you with all kinds of animosity “Jump through the hoop, BITCH”.

Then somebody comes up and punches you in the face and genitals simultaneously.

And that, my dears, is GLEE.

That was the most anti-climatic, nonsensical, musically useless, random, Orphan Annie ass finale I have ever seen.

Mercedes is a figment of everyone’s imagination BUT Sam and Santana. Dianna interacted with her, but I don’t think that was written in. I think that was all Diamber.

Quinn randomly was in love with Puck all this time? WHAT?

Faberry and Hummelberry - things that still make no damn sense.

Rachel, who fucked up her audition got in… Kurt who murdered his didn’t.

Santana’s family has money then they don’t. She’s not leaving Brittany, then she is.

SO next season is Pezberry and more failure? A season of struggle and crushed dreams…by CHOICE?

If Amber is leaving, I truly have no reason to watch this show even though I like Naya because…

1) not trying to see Santana be buddy-buddy with Rachel. It makes no sense. Santana has despised Rachel for 3 years and for really good reason.

2) It’s not like we’ll see development of Brittana into a mature adult relationship between two whole personalities.

3)Ummmm where the hell is Santana going after graduation? I’m assuming the Holy Trinity of Whiteness is going to New York so if she’s to be a main focus she’ll have to go there too… or will she hang back in Lima, OH for Brittany who looks to not be graduating? If so, what does that mean for the future of the doctor’s daughter?

4) The Sancedes/Mertana collaborations are ALWAYS stellar… that won’t be matched with Pezberry duets. Them shits suck with the exception of Boy Like That and it isn’t Naya’s fault. Lea should stick to Broadway-esque for the most part (We Found Love and So Emotional drove that terrible nail into the coffin for me… THE exception was the Usher “Without You” cover). So… all that’s left is Tina-Tana duets.

5) They say it’s going to be split between two settings…. what they really mean is when the HToW is in between scenes, they’ll flash back to Lima every so often.

6) I really am not trying to see the Blaine Anderson show dawg.

7) If Kurt will so quickly hop on the phone texting another dude, the fuck y’all think he’s going to do with all that fineness in NY slangin the dick in his direction? Klaine’s done or set up for some serious pain if Kurt’s in NY and Blaine’s in Lima, OH.

8) Finn has one time to get a role while Rachel still struggles to make a name for herself and he not be proud of his accomplishment and the writers make the shit all about her.

9) How are they going to deal with Samcedes after a YEAR of chasing her if he stays? How are they going to explain Sam’s absence (if he’s a junior as rumored) if Chord leaves?

10) I love Naya’s voice, but i’m sick of them giving her pop songs or de-soulifying her voice. Give her numbers with more passion and depth or just stop. Songbird, RHI/SLY, RDMH, Shake It Out, America, Boy Like That, How Will I Know, Valerie… what do these all have in common?

11) Have you seen the new people coming in? Rory, Sugar, Joe… really? They need to bring back the everyone else to keep this show even moderately interesting without Amber or Mark, Harry, Chord, and Dianna and even then they’ll need regular makeout sessions with Brittana and Klaine which i don’t like because
     a) it would confirm #2… makeout bunnies instead of a real relationship
     b) look at #7. Kurt is in NY
     c) paints homosexual relationships as being purely about the physical and that makes me uncomfortable. They’re relationships that deserve care and development.

12) They’ve ignored some characters for so long that the fans will damn near need to be reintroduced - basically anyone but Finchel, Brittana (who we still know remarkably little about as individuals), and Samcedes (who we know even less about) - and that’s time-consuming.

13) Currently a lot of people watch because they love the cast… well, how much Kevin/Amber, Kevin/Naya, Naya/Amber, Naya/Heather, Amber/Heather, Amber/Chord, Dianna/Amber, Dianna/Lea, Dianna/Naya interaction do you think you’ll be seeing if half of these people leave? Will the vibe even be the same?

14) A lot of the character relationships that have kept people interested look to be in jeopardy or set up for serious drama (Brittana, Tike, Klaine, Samcedes) others are dead and gone rotting in the ground and infested with maggots (Fabrevans, Quick, Kum, Bartie, Artina).

like… they really have made it so that there are far more reasons to not watch than to watch.