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i'm simone, i live in new york city & i have an rss addiction.

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quotes, new york city, & real life

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claudia: carolinek: I love the marketing for this television show! seriously.

claudia:

carolinek:

I love the marketing for this television show!

seriously.

 Trailer Blazer: Welcome to the ‘Dollhouse’

yep. still trying not to get my hopes up about this in case it goes up in smoke.

yep. still failing.

The Big Bad: What Does Buffy Have To Do With Baghdad? An NPR Reporter Explains

thanks again joss whedon. it’s not just buffy, most all of the female characters on his shows kick ass, in that they are complicated, funny, sexy and usually able to take you in a fight.

i said i was not going to get excited and that’s a little bit of a lie. i’m trying not to get my hopes up and failing.
sharingtime: The box set costs $69.99 and contains a 10th anniversary book, behind-the-scenes featurettes, new interviews, blooper reels, commentaries by the cast and creative team, and deleted scenes. A complete series box set has been available since 2002, but that version had no special features. (via TV Squad) This show never gets old. lee said it right, this show never gets old. there are entire episodes and speeches that i can quote verbatim and it never gets old. i have the original series release and rewatch episodes all the time. i hate that it never found an audience, probably because i’m not sure they figured out how to sell it. i would have gotten rid of the laugh-track for one. it’s not a sitcom, even though it’s a half hour show. it is damn funny though. i love everything about thsi show, with the exception of the lame dana/casey second season plotline. if you’ve never seen the show, buy this or get yourself to netflix.

sharingtime:

The box set costs $69.99 and contains a 10th anniversary book, behind-the-scenes featurettes, new interviews, blooper reels, commentaries by the cast and creative team, and deleted scenes. A complete series box set has been available since 2002, but that version had no special features.

(via TV Squad)

This show never gets old.

lee said it right, this show never gets old. there are entire episodes and speeches that i can quote verbatim and it never gets old. i have the original series release and rewatch episodes all the time.

i hate that it never found an audience, probably because i’m not sure they figured out how to sell it. i would have gotten rid of the laugh-track for one. it’s not a sitcom, even though it’s a half hour show. it is damn funny though.

i love everything about thsi show, with the exception of the lame dana/casey second season plotline. if you’ve never seen the show, buy this or get yourself to netflix.

FOX Announces 2008 - 2009 TV Schedule

1) jj abrams and planes shall never be parted.

2) i refuse to get excited about the whedon show. no matter how cool it sounds. or how exciting it is to to have whedon returning to tv. i’ll be excited after it burns down the ratings barn and finishes a full season.

(although the monday night placement is giving me some small measure of hope.)

jessicagoldharalson: sokasea: I just introduced a friend of mine to Buffy. I have the entire series on DVD, and I’ve been lending them out to him. He started at the beginning three weeks ago and he’s already on season six. It is so much fun to watch episodes with people who haven’t seen them before. We started watching season five together on Friday and he was totally confused by the appearance of Dawn. It was great. One of my exes did a research paper for his masters program at Harvard on whether or not teenage girls who watch Buffy have more self-esteem and a better self image than a control group. He collected data through online surveys and most of it wasn’t really scientifically sound, but it was an interesting question, nonetheless. Buffy is essentially a feminist show. It meant a lot to me to have a heroine to look up to who was strong, independent, and who kicked ass; but always while wearing stylish footwear. Buffy was an example of how being a feminist and being girly aren’t mutually exclusive. I don’t watch a lot of tv, but I don’t think there are too many other teenage female characters around who are smart, strong, independent and who can think for themselves. Veronica Mars, yes. Maybe Rory Gilmore, but not consistently (although I also love Gilmore Girls). I recently read the comic book for the eighth season of Buffy, and I came across this little piece of dialogue where Buffy says: ”This isn’t about demons at all, is it? It’s about women. It’s about power and it’s about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don’t you?” I’m glad to know Buffy’s still fighting the patriarchy, even if now it’s only in comic book form. I hate re-blogging without adding anything but YES YES and TRIPLE YES. YES. YES. and YES. i hate when people dismiss buffy as ‘dumb’ despite never seeing it. i have a lot of love for joss whedon. a lot. if you haven’t seen his equality now speech… go forth now and watch.

jessicagoldharalson:

sokasea:

I just introduced a friend of mine to Buffy. I have the entire series on DVD, and I’ve been lending them out to him. He started at the beginning three weeks ago and he’s already on season six. It is so much fun to watch episodes with people who haven’t seen them before. We started watching season five together on Friday and he was totally confused by the appearance of Dawn. It was great.

One of my exes did a research paper for his masters program at Harvard on whether or not teenage girls who watch Buffy have more self-esteem and a better self image than a control group. He collected data through online surveys and most of it wasn’t really scientifically sound, but it was an interesting question, nonetheless.

Buffy is essentially a feminist show. It meant a lot to me to have a heroine to look up to who was strong, independent, and who kicked ass; but always while wearing stylish footwear. Buffy was an example of how being a feminist and being girly aren’t mutually exclusive.

I don’t watch a lot of tv, but I don’t think there are too many other teenage female characters around who are smart, strong, independent and who can think for themselves. Veronica Mars, yes. Maybe Rory Gilmore, but not consistently (although I also love Gilmore Girls).

I recently read the comic book for the eighth season of Buffy, and I came across this little piece of dialogue where Buffy says: ”This isn’t about demons at all, is it? It’s about women. It’s about power and it’s about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don’t you?” I’m glad to know Buffy’s still fighting the patriarchy, even if now it’s only in comic book form.

I hate re-blogging without adding anything but

YES

YES

and TRIPLE YES.

YES. YES. and YES.

i hate when people dismiss buffy as ‘dumb’ despite never seeing it.

i have a lot of love for joss whedon. a lot.

if you haven’t seen his equality now speech… go forth now and watch.

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This week is “Turn-Off Your TV Week” here in the U.S., the only week I know of designed to disengage and disparage a major aesthetic and information form. For years I’ve tried to get people interested in sponsoring a “Music Free Week” or “Week Without Reading,” but I’ve yet to get traction.

As you might gather, I’m not a fan of this (or any) brand of anti-TV activism for a number of reasons. While I do believe that a medium does have an impact beyond just its content or formal elements, I have yet to be convinced that anything about television is so pervasively evil to warrant its eradication. If you object to hypercommercialism, watch public TV or embrace your TiVo; if you dislike the limited mentality of TV news, watch some great dramatic and comedy programming; if you feel that watching TV is too sedentary, get a Stairmaster (and that objection goes for books & computers too). Television as a medium surpasses any of these common objections.

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Turn On Your TV « Just TV

word. i hate when people blatently dismiss all of television as something that’s ‘bad for you.’

“ EMILY: And then you forced your father and me to come here tonight under pretense of family obligation.
LORELAI: Well, hello, that’s the Gilmore way. ”

- gilmore girls (season four) raincoats and recipes.

Whedon's Dollhouse Cast Announced! - Ausiello Report

so while this sounds coold (omg! joss returning to tv!) i am refusing to get really excited about it, because it’s on fox.

i swear fox is like the perpetual bad boy. you know it’s only going to end in heartbreak but they are so damn charismatic at first.

a girl can only get her heart broken so many times…

Fox Cancels The Return of Jezebel James

i wish i could muster up some shock. or surprise. but i can’t. i smelled that one from the moment it was announced. i was looking for emails to prove it - and found this.

ever read back over your own writing and shock yourself? i just did, so i’m going to post most of it here.

from: Simone
to : [redacted]
date: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 7:20 AM
subject: Re: Dark Angel: wherein I rant, hopefully intelligently

fox man. fox sucks. (something my thesis calls the bad parent narrative by the way - they don’t nurture, bad scheduling, etc) they do seem to set all of their shows up to fail. looks at the wikipedia entries for firefly, wonderfalls, freaks and geeks, arrested development, family guy, dark angel. most recently they cancelled drive after two freaking episodes. why even bother? nino and i discussed, if you are a show creator (like drive’s minnear) and you are personally (or even not personally) aware of fox’s rep, why you would sign on with them? i guess if they are giving you money and no one else is, you suck it up and roll the dice, cause it’s better than no one ever seeing your show.

normally i try and defend network executives a little, or at least once in an argument about quality television. in that i resist the idea that they are money grubbing evil folk who would air the de-viriginzation of their sister for good ratings. mostly i seem them as business people, who want to air quality things, but in the end have to find a balance between money and quality. after all we’ve seen dawn ostroff fight for veronica mars. and kevin reilly (nbc’s recently ousted president) fight for the office, 30 rock and friday night lights. except for fox. they are in the first category all the way. i don’t defend fox.

makes me sad cause amy sherman palladino’s (gilmore girls creator) new show, with parker posey and micheal arden is on fox in the fall. and unless you are a) super cheap or b) a ratings barn buster you seem destined to be canceled.

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