: Sunday, September 7, 2008
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thingswithwings: representational television: SO WEIRD - I've been watching Boston Legal. And I am completely freaked out by it. How do people watch representational television? How do they watch shows that aren't speculative fiction, that don't do their work through metaphor? -- cupidsbow: Fannish Touchstone Stories - ze said it was that those stories speak straight to our lizard brain. That they are satisfying on this deep emotional level. Thinking about this a bit more, I wonder if these stories present us with an "answer"? [...] And I wonder if these touchstone stories manage to give us one possible solution that works on multiple levels. They are, in effect, One Way It Could Actually Happen (according to fannish consensus). -