About Smallville...

[fajrdrako]

My friend Pat has been a comics fan for decades - he's a DC fan, and a Green Arrow fan, and he likes Superman. So when Smallville started he and his wife Sandi watched it, but they didn't like it much and soon stopped watching. I, on the other hand, adored the show, and glommed onto it, and made it my primary fandom for - what, four years? I loved it for the Luthor Family Soap Opera, which was precisely why Sandi and Pat didn't like it. Besides, they aren't into slash and didn't even see the delightful sexiness of it all.

Now that various things on the show have quelled my passion for it, suddenly Pat and Sandi are into it and enthusiastic about it again. They love it that it has superheroes in it now. They recognize it as something more like the world of DC comics that they want, and they're watching happily. I'm watching... somewhat belatedly... with a combination of hope and cringing. I still haven't seen the past two episodes.

Funny how things change.

Pat and Sandi don't like Heroes. They love Eureka, which leaves me cold. Lucky thing they both love Doctor Who, or I'd think we had no tastes in common!

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My husband owns a comic book shop

Ooh, lucky man! I've never owned one or worked in one, but I hang out in them enough to sometimes feel as if I do!

doesn't like Heroes... which is very irritating, as I adore it!

So it goes!

I can almost understand because though I like (or have liked) these shows, I usually dislike movies based on comic books. And even when I like the movie (say, "X-Men", "Spider-Man" or "Batman Begins"), I usually end up saying "It was entertaining but the comic is better" and a lot of it's a matter of form. I love the medium that comic books represent. Seing Batman with panels and balloons and art and gutters is somehow better than seeing him on a movie or TV screen.

So my love of Heroes and even the movie Unbreakable may be that they aren't directly based on heroes I know and have read about, but have used the superhero concept with new heroes in a new medium. So the transition is easier.

Sin City is another exception; I'm not sure why, but perhaps it was the extreme fidelity of the movie to the comic in both script and style.

Eureka:
I find the father-daughter relationship very disturbing and unhappy-making --

Interesting, because I did too, though there were enough other things I didn't like about the show (like the general tone) that I wasn't focussing on that. But, yes, the relationship made me uncomfortable - particularly because in the first episode we didn't know she was his daughter at first. I certainly didn't see it as 'cute'. Creepy, maybe.

EVERYBODY loves Dr. Who, how could they not? It's *that* good! ;)

I think so! Exceptional, brilliant television - fantastic, even. But maaseru and maaboroshi profess to remain unimpressed, and they are commonly my TV-watching companions. However, they're at the point where they will - at least sometimes - sit fairly contentedly through an episode with me, and they don't hate it or run away, so that's progress!