Because I don’t want to be one of those people who care about pop culture. Really, I don’t!
But here, to you, my loyal (if non-existent) audience, I reveal my darkest secrets… I, in fact, have a television addiction. And my shows have been pissing me off so overwhelmingly lately that I just have to come up with some way to rationalize why… the only reason I can think of is the writers strike. I mean, I support the strike - I support almost any strike, I think everyone deserves to get paid for their work and just because it inconveniences me doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
That said….
WHAT HAPPENED TO MY FUCKING TV SHOWS?!?!?!
I work hard! I don’t ask much of the world! But I come home and want to watch a tv show at night! AND THEY ALL MAKE BAD CHOICES. Wtf is up with that?
Here’s the rundown, spoilers aplenty, so far… in order of how badly it pissed me off:
CSI - Sara left after surviving the serial killer thing and agreeing to marry Grissom. It was so dumb too. She left him a fucking note. You skip town and say goodbye to the love of your life with a note?! RAWR. And there was no real motivation, just some stupid non-canon reference to when her father died, and a picture of her in a cab… there’s no good reason for her to leave and not come back, when she could just take some time off, a vacation, or just fucking quit her job. It was dumb and totally out of character.
Criminal Minds - Garcia shot, the last three seconds of the episode. Remind you of anything?? The exact same pattern as the way they got rid of Elle at the end of the first season, no explanation, nothing, just gets shot in the last second of the episode. Fucking idiotic. By a character we don’t know too.
House - Ok this is ridiculous. I admit the show has done nothing wrong and I’m just being stupid. But. He fired Dr. Terzi one episode after he hired her!!!! She quit the CIA to come work for him, he kept the asshole doctor, and fired the incredibly hot (did I mention incredibly hot) Dr. Terzi!!!! NOOooooo!
I know I know. It’s ridiculous. I do have better things to do than obsess over pop-culture but you know, I do love my tv shows. Except when they piss me off, as above. Sara Sidle was my favorite character and I may never be able to watch CSI again now that she’s gone. Fuckers.
My Advice: Let Bill Clinton go in and mediate the damn strike so American life can get back to normal and nobody has to watch the horror that is Quarterlife, or any of the other crap people are coming up with to fill the void created by the absence of good writers. (I’m not going to link it because I won’t advertise bad entertainment…)
November 19, 2007 at 12:14 pm
To the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
When the union’s inspiration through the workers’ blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?
But the union makes us strong.
CHORUS:
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong.
Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.
It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.
All the world that’s owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.