Snowflake Challenge #4

[bunnyboo]

I've caught up! The challenges are every other day, so you'll see another post Saturday. Onto the challenge! The fourth challenge (with the little introduction this time for context) is:

"A goal is defined as the object of a person's ambition or effort. For this challenge, you are to make a goal or two or, well, as many as you wish to. Do you want to write that fanfic that has been on your mind? Make that essay on the meta of your favorite fandom? Learn a new language? Read your stack of To Be Read books? Finally watch every episode of every version of The Twilight Zone? Since this can be a bit personal, you can, as always, simply keep your journal locked and comment that you did it."

In your own space, create some goals. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hm... some fannish goals? I'd like to finish Buffy season two and post my thoughts about it. I've enjoyed doing those posts because it's a nice way to organize my thoughts and share my reaction with other, more knowledgeable fans. (I hesitated on saying "older" because longer time fans may actually be younger than me!)

Another goal, non-fandom this time, would be to dust my bookshelves again. They're so empty after I decluttered...

Finally, if you'd like to participate in the Snowflake challenge, you can join and do as much or as little as you like - see the challenges and read the introductions here!

Comments

[jedi_of_urth]

I too love chronicling my experience with older TV shows (also present ones, but I don't have a lot of present shows), so I completely get the drive to do that. Now I need to go search for you Buffy thoughts, I suppose.

(Looks over at bookshelves...yes I know you need dusting)

[bunnyboo]

Readin' through your Arrow posts now! :)

[jedi_of_urth]

It's funny, I'm so not used to people actually reading my stuff that it feels weird to think about someone reading those posts. From back when I was super into that universe; in many ways the long form reviews I did here (you can find more reaction post type things on my lj) represent the last era of my caring about that world. In the next season or so I decided; you know, I really hate Barry, maybe I should stop watching Flash; you know I'm not very fond of Kara, or the whole ethos of that show, maybe I'll stop watching Supergirl too; you know I hated this last season of Legends and Rip's dead, maybe I'll give that up too. So Arrow was my first and last interest in that world.

[bunnyboo]

Fun fact - I watched five seasons of The Flash before quitting. It was so dumb. I'm interested to see if Arrow was just as bad.

[jedi_of_urth]

Arrow...has different problems; I can't promise you'll find it better but I found it infinitely more watchable. I came to loath Barry in a way I rarely do with hero characters; while Oliver is basically the only nuanced lead character the verse had. But the verse ended up swinging so far the other was over the years (heroes are pure and always right and never need to be taught lessons) that to me it seemed TPTB lost track of what to do with Arrow as a series and Oliver as a character.

Probably the most commonly sited reason people stopped liking Arrow was because the plots could be dumb and drawn out (which isn't exactly wrong), but I maintain a lot of the problem is that TPTB stopped caring about Arrow somewhere along the road. It was the unwanted step child (never mind that it was the first born) but they also wouldn't just let it go and truly be it's own thing and so it got a little floundery as it went on.

[ai]

It'll be fun to hear more about Buffy for sure!

Shelves get so dusty when there's nothing there to collect the dust. I love dusting though. It's why I'm crazy and have white furniture so that I'm encouraged to dust a little more.

[silverink]

I'm so glad you're participating in this challenge and hope you're enjoying it! :D

Ooh that reminds me, I've been thinking of starting Buffy! Maybe I'll do that soon then...

[bunnyboo]

I'd recommend it if you have a tolerance for late 90s writing. It's odd watching it as a modern viewer. There's been a lot of change in television, especially when it comes to gender roles. It's really goofy fun regardless.

I watch it on Amazon Prime if you have that! :)

[silverink]

I like a lot of 90's/2000's shows actually! I agree though, a lot of them are a bit weird to watch as a modern viewer. It sounds like fun though! And yeah I have Prime - I'll hopefully watch that soon!! :)