| When canon whores backslide: Embracing late season two |
[Sep. 11th, 2007|12:27 am] |
I know there are a lot of fans out there who don't like Season Five. Some actually hate it. A few have steadfastly refused to so much as watch it. While it is not my favorite of the seasons, I love Season Five, for many reasons most of which are Justin and none, absolutely none, of which are Brian's hair.
But no matter how much you might dislike Season Five, it can never... ever... make your gut clench with the ice-cold fear, the nerve-ripping, muscle-clenching, blood-pressure increasing, teeth-grinding anxiety and stress I feel at watching the last five episodes of Season Two.
I confessed this malady to ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) badbadpixie, and admitted that I had been known to get to the end of 204 and put 301 in the DVD player and just let MIchael's flashback and voiceover update the plot for me. And I couldn't even remember the last time I watched past 215.
She looked me metaphorically in the eye and gripped me by the shoulders and gave me a tiny shake. "XIE!" she said, her tone bracing. "Don't hurt me this way! You must watch all the seasons! Be brave! Be true to your beliefs!"
And she was right, darling fangirls. She was right. So I went to happier_bunny and said, let us watch Season Two together so there will be someone to hold me when I weep.
And she said, "There is a lot of beauty in Season Two. Focus on that."
I shook my head. "No, alas, that doesn't work. I've tried that. I just rush through everything I don't like for the little bits I do, and that's what ruins it for me." I took a deep breath. "What I have to do is embrace Season Two. All of it. The good with the bad, the painful with the joyful."
And so I've been watching. And trying. And soon we're going to enter the 216-220 arc, which covers the birthday hustler episode and goes through the night of the Rage party... as far from my happy place as it's possible to be. I'd rather get up every single morning and watch 506 followed by 507 than watch that arc.
Even though Brian's hair looked really really great in Season Two.
So now that bunny and I are on 213, and 216 is looming, I've decided to invite the fandom to watch me fall to pieces these episodes with us. I'm going to post my feelings about each episode as I watch it, and invite you to hand me tissues hold my hand force me to keep watching share your thoughts with me too, and try to help me survive embrace the whole season, the way it's meant to be embraced.
God I'm totally brave, aren't I? I mean, I'm a fucking inspiration, don't you think?
I'll probably start this small marathon on Thursday. See you then! |
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