TV musings w/ GIMLORE outrage
Sep. 28th, 2006 07:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thehefnerThere seems to be a pattern in my life, where it seems that every time I try to introduce someone to a TV show I love with an episode that happens to be on air, it's almost always a bad episode, thus ensuring that they will never see the show again. Anyone else have this?
For example, thanks to the pilot episode, my brother absolutely refuses to ever, ever watch FUTURAMA, or even think it could possibly be watchable, much less brilliant. And as of a half hour ago, the same can be said with my mother and SCRUBS. SCRUBS, for god's sake! One weak episode with the characters all acting like dicks without any of the usual brilliant jokes, and she's so totally turned off that I doubt she'll ever give it another chance.
I just hope the case won't be the same when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kali921 starts watching her first ever episodes of the Dini-Timm-verse superhero cartoons, starting all the way with BATMAN through JLU. If she even gets through the first few. I'm hoping she'll start with "Almost Got 'Im." I blew her mind just telling her some of the voice talent.
So confession time, I love GILMORE GIRLS. God help me. I think it's so wittty and banter-y and neurotic, like a girly version of SEINFELD. I am the biggest pussy ever.
However, for the first time ever, I saw an episode that deeply, deeply turned me off. It's the one where Sookie gives birth. Anyone see this? She gives birth and tells her husband he's getting a vasectomy. At first you're thinking, "Oh, ha-ha, she's just lashing out, it's funny," but then you realize, oh, she's serious. She already scheduled his vasectomy for him without telling him and brought the nurse in to take him away! And he goes, "Ohh, okay, fine."
Um... ok, if this was a case where the guy said to the woman, "You are getting your tubes tied. No, seriously, I've already signed you up. No discussion. It's quick, don't worry. Bye." uh, wouldn't there be, like, a HUGE outcry of sexism? Is it wrong of me that I think this is deeply fucking offensive?
The whole episode, for that matter, reeked of anti-male sentiment, from little things in the banter to Rory's petty and self-righteous jealousy toward Logan (or whoever the rich boy is, I don't watch it enough). And while I feel like even complaining about this opens me up to cries of sexism, I'm honestly really fucking offended because this is a beloved show and if something like this can go unnoticed or unremarked upon, what's that say about the general mindsets of the people who watch this show?
Which I'm still going to do, by the way. I still love GILMORE GIRLS, damn my balls, but this is definitely gonna bother me for some time to come.
For example, thanks to the pilot episode, my brother absolutely refuses to ever, ever watch FUTURAMA, or even think it could possibly be watchable, much less brilliant. And as of a half hour ago, the same can be said with my mother and SCRUBS. SCRUBS, for god's sake! One weak episode with the characters all acting like dicks without any of the usual brilliant jokes, and she's so totally turned off that I doubt she'll ever give it another chance.
I just hope the case won't be the same when
kali921 starts watching her first ever episodes of the Dini-Timm-verse superhero cartoons, starting all the way with BATMAN through JLU. If she even gets through the first few. I'm hoping she'll start with "Almost Got 'Im." I blew her mind just telling her some of the voice talent. So confession time, I love GILMORE GIRLS. God help me. I think it's so wittty and banter-y and neurotic, like a girly version of SEINFELD. I am the biggest pussy ever.
However, for the first time ever, I saw an episode that deeply, deeply turned me off. It's the one where Sookie gives birth. Anyone see this? She gives birth and tells her husband he's getting a vasectomy. At first you're thinking, "Oh, ha-ha, she's just lashing out, it's funny," but then you realize, oh, she's serious. She already scheduled his vasectomy for him without telling him and brought the nurse in to take him away! And he goes, "Ohh, okay, fine."
Um... ok, if this was a case where the guy said to the woman, "You are getting your tubes tied. No, seriously, I've already signed you up. No discussion. It's quick, don't worry. Bye." uh, wouldn't there be, like, a HUGE outcry of sexism? Is it wrong of me that I think this is deeply fucking offensive?
The whole episode, for that matter, reeked of anti-male sentiment, from little things in the banter to Rory's petty and self-righteous jealousy toward Logan (or whoever the rich boy is, I don't watch it enough). And while I feel like even complaining about this opens me up to cries of sexism, I'm honestly really fucking offended because this is a beloved show and if something like this can go unnoticed or unremarked upon, what's that say about the general mindsets of the people who watch this show?
Which I'm still going to do, by the way. I still love GILMORE GIRLS, damn my balls, but this is definitely gonna bother me for some time to come.
