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[donutsweeper]

Have you ever watched a show because you hoped it would be good, even though it really wasn't? The kind of show that had potential in some way, either in the characters or the world building or whatever, but it just never quite gelled into the show you thought it could be yet you tune in week after week anyway?

More and more I'm finding that the show I'm watching is not the one that airing, but rather the shiny version I see it becoming (if the acting was better and the writing less flawed and the plot tighter etc etc etc) and then, as a result, being disappointed. The shows aren't grabbing my interest enough to truly be fannish about and fulfilling any of my needs that way so I'm just left watching and sighing over what might have been.

Sometimes I keep watching, other times I give up or the show is canceled or not renewed and just fades away. And every time it's just disappointing.

(I started to list all the current or recent that fit into this category for me and was so depressed by its sheer size I deleted it. *sighs*)

Comments

[morgynleri]

There are a number of shows that have just not held my interest for long over the years, but the characters often hold my interest long after a show is over or I've stopped watching, because for me, the characters and settings to play with are as important as the long-term quality of the show. (Actually, come to think, almost every show I've watched has lost me, often before their run-time is over, because of the quality of writing. There's only one still currently on that's drawn me back in, and one that's kept me interested despite missing episodes because of life.)

In the long run, I take the good stuff, and the fanfiction, and I play with what I want, and ignore the rest. Sometimes including large chunks of canon after they've lost me to boredom (or in the case of a recent one, desiring to hit the producer and writers with bricks, because dude, I like my bad guys intelligent, but not overwhelmingly clever and evil to the point the good guys can never win).

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, it's often the characters that kept me watching more than plots or anything too. And bwhahahaha I so understand about the desire to bean the writers with bricks!