This... probably qualifies me as slightly crazy.

[deird_lj]

I've been cross-stitching lately, which generally involves me putting TV shows I know well on in the background, so that I have something to keep me from getting bored with the cross-stitchiness.

Anyway...

Lately, my Cross-Stitching Background TV has been Lois & Clark, season 3. All very fun and entertainingly nutty.

Now, though, I've reached an episode I absolutely HATE. Not because it's actually all that bad - but the emotional stuff the characters are going through is just painful, and unnecessarily painful, and I don't want to watch that episode again.

Except...

I was kind of watching them all in order...

So, instead of SKIPPING the episode, and putting the NEXT one on for me to cross-stitch to, like a sensible person would, I have put the episode on, left the room, and retreated to my computer, where I am frantically reading websites and playing solitaire until the episode GOES AWAY.

...because, then, I won't have watched them out of order. But I'll still get to not watch this unwatchable episode.



Yes, I am indeed a loon.

*continues to avoid my living room for another 20 minutes*

Comments

[deird1]

Oh yeah. It's completely mad. Which, in Lois&Clark, is half the fun.
(Seriously. Cracky plots are their speciality. And they do them so well.)

Mind you, it comes across quite differently when you're actually watching it.



(Sidenote: have you ever tried summarising Buffy plots to someone who hasn't seen it? It sounds so weird:
"And then her boyfriend - remember, the one who came back from the dead after he went evil and then good and then she killed him? yeah, him - well, he left town to be a detective, so she went off with this college guy who was a psychology student, except he wasn't really, he was actually a soldier who was on a secret mission to capture vampires (including Spike - remember him? yeah, the blond guy with the crazy girlfriend who teamed up with her to save the world). And anyway it turned out he had superstrength because the army had him on drugs, but they also had him implanted with this mindcontrol chip which he didn't know about until the half-demon cyborg activated it... Oh, and then there was this whole thing with Willow's werewolf ex-boyfriend coming back just as she'd got a new girlfriend and being captured by Buffy's new boyfriend, who then tried to help him escape and committed treason...")

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Hee! Luckily I've never had to try - my friends who don't watch it just shake their heads at me when I talk about it and call me a geek. And then I point out that they read buckets of HP slash, and it's all good. :D

Although I have mentioned some things about Buffy in conversation, and they're always like, "...wait, WHAT?" :P