Bothered and bewildered...

[fajrdrako]

The kids in the Summer Drama Camp were watching some movie in the Green Room as I walked through just now. I don't know what they were watching - definitely not "The Lord of the Rings" - but they were talking about Aragorn. Yesterday I was talking to a kid (aged about nine) who was just finishing reading the latest Harry Potter book. I love it when fandom hits the young.

This afternoon they are putting on a play for their families and friends - "Murder at the B&B", a murder mystery set in 1932, and largely written by the students. There seem to be rather a lot of suspects. They were dressing up in costume for it this morning and they looked great. Their parents will be pleased, I think.

I was frustrated just now by acronyms.... This happens because I am almost totally ignorant of what's on TV - except for Smallville. I do occasinally make forays into exciting new venues like televized yoga or the Weather Channel. I'm just too busy to watch much. Show that my friends are into make an impact on my consciousness, especially if they are slashy, so I know what TS and SG1 stand for, for example.

It isn't just with TV it happens - people on LJs were talking about PoA for a while before I twigged to fact that the acronym had a Harry Potter context: The Prisoner of Azkaban. (My favourite of the books, too.) But hackthis this morning was talking about OC and I'm stumped. Weeks of reading about TAR in mlleelizabeth's LJ has me still trying to guess what that might be, with not a clue anywhere.

Of course I am perfectly happy with the acronyms I use all the time, like GK, QP, DK, etc., or LSH, DD, FF, UXM in the world of comics; or SV for "Smallville", PotC for "Pirates of the Caribbean" and LFG for "Lord Fucking Gorgeous".

Such is fandom, and so, I suppose, it will ever be. Maybe the bottom line is: if I don't know, I don't need to know.

But... being me, I get curious.

Comments

[ingrid-m.livejournal.com]

The funny thing about "OC" is that the TV show is actually titled "The OC". So, it's not even an acronym, ironically enough. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ah-hah! It's just a TV show I never heard of. No wonder I couldn't think of any familiar possivilities.

Thanks for solving my mystery. Much obliged.

[thamiris.livejournal.com]

The OC is a new show starring Peter Gallagher and a host of young, pretty actors. It's actually called The OC, so it's canonically an acronym; if you watch the show, you discover that OC is short for Orange County, where most of the action takes place.

TAR is an acronym for The Amazing Race, the reality show now in its fourth incarnation.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you for demystifying this for me! Obviously I haven't been paying enough attention. I probably don't even have the excuse that these aren't shown in Eastern Ontario; that used to be usually true, but now I get umpteen zillion stations on digital cable and it's probably all there. I just don't know what any of it is!

[thamiris.livejournal.com]

I'm in Vancouver, and both shows, if I'm not mistaken, air on regular cable (although I have digital, so I could be wrong); I know that my sister in Toronto watched TAR before she had her satellite dish. And The OC is very new: only one episode has aired so far.

My, I'm just Missy McHelpful this morning, aren't I? *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Hey, I *need* a Missy McHelpful in my life - obviously! I can't keep up with fandom on my own, clearly.

[mlleelizabeth.livejournal.com]

TAR is The Amazing Race, a reality show on CBS in which 12 couples race around the world, performing challenges, to win $1,000,000.00.

It's oodles of fun and my favorite reality show, because the contestants have to work in order to win.

I watched the premiere of The O.C. last night, but I'm still as likely to confuse it with a discussion of original characters as to assume the person's talking about the FOX tv show.

I am sometimes tempted to define my terms the way I do at work: Last night's episode of The Amazing Race (hereinafter "TAR")was great! But then I think everyone will laugh at me for doing that, including myself. *g*

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

TAR is The Amazing Race

We both realize that I could have just asked you in the first place. But... I really thought that if I thought about it for a while, I would twig to what it was. Not so.


It's oodles of fun and my favorite reality show, because the contestants have to work in order to win.

That does sound like fun!

As for OC - yes, it's doubly confusing when the acronym means something else too - as is often the case. There just aren't enough letters in the alphabet.