The current TV season post
Anyway, I've been reading a lot of words lately (pro and fanfic, just, words words and omg more words), and my comic book reading seems to be broken and my TV watching seems to be broken. Reading lines of prose text upset my ability to read the text/visual combination perhaps? It's not like I've suddenly lost faith in comics as a medium. Maybe I'm still too disenchanted with DC and it's still bleeding over into other works.
This isn't about books being better than other forms of media, just where my headspace is. Because about TV: I'm bored with most of it. But maybe I've been spoiled by the astounding shows I've gotten to watch over the years. So if it doesn't hit me just right, or if it doesn't hit that high note, I can't be bothered.
I've cut some from my watching list*, but not because the shows aren't GOOD. I've been thinking about this good vs. not-good thing about TV lately and at least with television, it's not a question of quality, it's a question of do these characters speak directly to you? This is probably true of all forms of entertainment, although a certain baseline of quality needs to be there.
Anyway, it's unnerving to be feeling...nothing...for stuff that others are so ecstatic about. Especially when in terms of mechanical elements, and genre, the show has everything I should like.
What shows I'm talking about is irrelevant**, I'm just...thinking aloud here.
*When I say 'cut some,' I am still left with a silly long list of currently produced series I adore.
**I do tend towards shows that aren't big in the ratings. Not sure if that's coincidental.