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Why I love the shows I love.
I was just thinking about my favourite tv shows and the moment I first realised I was going to love them.
Surprisingly, they were actually all quite similar. Although... not.
The List
Firefly: when Mal kicked the evil guy through the ship's engine.
Frasier: the "flashback episode"... that turned out not to be a standard flashback episode, because modern-day Frasier and Niles were inside it, looking at early-years Frasier and Niles, and commenting on them.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the moment Spike appeared and started talking about Woodstock.
NCIS: when they kidnapped a body from the FBI (by bluffing really well) so that they'd have jurisdiction over it.
Farscape: when the episode's teaser ended with "I demand... one of your Pilot's arms!" *dramatic music* - and I was sure the episode was going to be about the moral dilemma of do-we-cut-off-the-Pilot's-arm-or-not-hmm-we-must-think-about-this-deeply-and-moralise... but, two minutes later, they CUT HIS ARM OFF, and the rest of the episode was about something else.
I like many shows. For many reasons. But the thing that makes me grin and love them is when they start surprising me. When I can see the standard tv moment that's about to happen - and then something else happens instead. When a show about gothic, dramatic vampires turns out to be more interested in punk vampires who roll their eyes at the rules. When it's suddenly not what I thought it was, and I suddenly don't know everything.
I love that.
Surprisingly, they were actually all quite similar. Although... not.
The List
Firefly: when Mal kicked the evil guy through the ship's engine.
Frasier: the "flashback episode"... that turned out not to be a standard flashback episode, because modern-day Frasier and Niles were inside it, looking at early-years Frasier and Niles, and commenting on them.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: the moment Spike appeared and started talking about Woodstock.
NCIS: when they kidnapped a body from the FBI (by bluffing really well) so that they'd have jurisdiction over it.
Farscape: when the episode's teaser ended with "I demand... one of your Pilot's arms!" *dramatic music* - and I was sure the episode was going to be about the moral dilemma of do-we-cut-off-the-Pilot's-arm-or-not-hmm-we-must-think-about-this-deeply-and-moralise... but, two minutes later, they CUT HIS ARM OFF, and the rest of the episode was about something else.
I like many shows. For many reasons. But the thing that makes me grin and love them is when they start surprising me. When I can see the standard tv moment that's about to happen - and then something else happens instead. When a show about gothic, dramatic vampires turns out to be more interested in punk vampires who roll their eyes at the rules. When it's suddenly not what I thought it was, and I suddenly don't know everything.
I love that.
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