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Aug. 25th, 2008 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ink_splotchMy old housemate R has been up for a couple of days and we - along with J, one of my current housemates - have watched all of Spaced and re-watched Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Well, we watched them all Saturday/Sunday (7pm to 7am, and it was pure awesome. I've never felt so much like a student) and now we keep making stupid references to each other. It's kind of brilliant - like having an in-house fandom of sorts.
Spaced is amazing, by the way. I bought it on a whim, because frankly, I needed a TV show and also because watching Hot Fuzz *again* seemed a little excessive. But I loved it madly. One of my things about English comedy is it tends to go for outrageous and sacrifices the characters (whereas American comedy just sacrifices everything for the same old idea. Sorry, that was mean), but Spaced doesn't. And considering it could quite easily just have been seven hours worth of pop-culture references and still have been excellent, I was surprised at how much I loved the characters - particularly Daisy and Tim, of course, but also Mike and even Brian, Twist and Marsha. There's just such a family feel to it - I really believed that these people *cared* about each other. And there were coherent arcs! And - I just loved it. All of it. But particularly that one gun fight and the masturbation conversation and Tim and Mike paintballing in the wood. And the silly flashback joke and Tyres and Colin and everything. I just.
I love how, although there is a pairing-ish feel to the show, it doesn't undermine the interaction with the other characters. the other characters do not exist to get Daisy and Tim together, and the subtext is just that: subtext. And it's well done subtext and I want to point to it and say THIS. This is how you write that odd combination of friendship and UST and make it interesting, but without letting it take over everything.
And I made an embarrassing noise at the end of the Skip to the End documentary. Exactly the right ending, *yes*. Particularly because I now have a very definite idea of what everyone's doing and it makes me so happy, omg.
Also, in what is possibly the best unintentional moment of TV ever, there's a scene in the second to last episode where Brian is developing photos of the gang, and between some of the characters slashes appear. It's supposed to foreshadow the eventual arguments, but awesomely manages to fall down shipping lines, so Tim and Daisy have a slash between them, Tim and Mike have a slash between them and so on. I laughed for, like, five minutes when it happened and could not explain it to R and J.
So, uh. What's new with you guys?
also, aaaargh, my sleep rhythm is so fucked!
Spaced is amazing, by the way. I bought it on a whim, because frankly, I needed a TV show and also because watching Hot Fuzz *again* seemed a little excessive. But I loved it madly. One of my things about English comedy is it tends to go for outrageous and sacrifices the characters (whereas American comedy just sacrifices everything for the same old idea. Sorry, that was mean), but Spaced doesn't. And considering it could quite easily just have been seven hours worth of pop-culture references and still have been excellent, I was surprised at how much I loved the characters - particularly Daisy and Tim, of course, but also Mike and even Brian, Twist and Marsha. There's just such a family feel to it - I really believed that these people *cared* about each other. And there were coherent arcs! And - I just loved it. All of it. But particularly that one gun fight and the masturbation conversation and Tim and Mike paintballing in the wood. And the silly flashback joke and Tyres and Colin and everything. I just.
I love how, although there is a pairing-ish feel to the show, it doesn't undermine the interaction with the other characters. the other characters do not exist to get Daisy and Tim together, and the subtext is just that: subtext. And it's well done subtext and I want to point to it and say THIS. This is how you write that odd combination of friendship and UST and make it interesting, but without letting it take over everything.
And I made an embarrassing noise at the end of the Skip to the End documentary. Exactly the right ending, *yes*. Particularly because I now have a very definite idea of what everyone's doing and it makes me so happy, omg.
Also, in what is possibly the best unintentional moment of TV ever, there's a scene in the second to last episode where Brian is developing photos of the gang, and between some of the characters slashes appear. It's supposed to foreshadow the eventual arguments, but awesomely manages to fall down shipping lines, so Tim and Daisy have a slash between them, Tim and Mike have a slash between them and so on. I laughed for, like, five minutes when it happened and could not explain it to R and J.
So, uh. What's new with you guys?
also, aaaargh, my sleep rhythm is so fucked!
