I'm a huge fan of people who are unafraid of unpopular opinions, so go you! This was very fun to read, and you should post your opinions more often.
Hmmm. I'm not sure if I love Celine Dion, but I definitely think she has a unique and beautiful voice. Amy Winehouse, on the other hand, would be doing the music industry a favor if she crawled back into whatever crack hole she came from.... I don't like her. :)
And I love Gladiator! I think we might have opposite taste in movies, because I hated SiL. But we definitely agree on CTHD. I loved that film.
I think your description of AOL as a "big, blank hounddog" is really apt. But I still want to kidnap him and do dirty, dirty things to him. :) Honestly, I think he's fucking sexy.
Re Jim and Pam - I thought they were worth the hype in S1 and S2, but S3 put me into burn-out mode. There was something very exciting about them in the first seasons, though. Watching their relationship really made the show emotionally involving for me. I felt that excitement like it was my own friendship, my own crush. I still have fond feelings for them, but I don't want to fanfic them anymore, which is a sure sign my obsession has waned.
And finally, of course, VM. I actually STILL don't think I'm objective enough to discuss this rationally, but I'll try. I have to disagree about S2 being worse than S3. S2 may have been worse thematically, but the execution of S3 was, for me, terrible enough to obsure even the best intentions of the writers. The things that I loved about VM were the characters and the relationships, and in S3, both components became unrecognizable to me. The writers might have been telling a thematically sound story, but they were telling it about characters I no longer liked or reconized, including Logan, Keith, Wallace, and Weevil.
I totally agree with this: On that note, I fully, firmly and 100% believe that the last Logan/Veronica scene was a crystal-clear anvil from Rob Thomas that, yes, Logan and Veronica WOULD be getting back together
It's on this: because, YES!, Logan and Veronica DO belong together that we part ways.
When I weigh that last scene against the evidence of the rest of the season, I just can't convince myself that RT saw them as meant for each other, or that it was anything other than a compromise between his preferred ending and what he thought the fans might want. But I don't think your opinion on that is unpopular at all, actually. I think a lot of L/V fans felt at least slightly satisfied/relieved by the ending. I didn't really find much to like about it, though. I didn't think it said very much about their journey, positive OR negative, despite the Pilot callbacks.
I don't go much into HP fandom, so I don't know about general opinions, but Book 6 is definitely the weak link in the series. I had a couple issues with Book 7, and the epilogue is right up there. Ugh.
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Hmmm. I'm not sure if I love Celine Dion, but I definitely think she has a unique and beautiful voice. Amy Winehouse, on the other hand, would be doing the music industry a favor if she crawled back into whatever crack hole she came from.... I don't like her. :)
And I love Gladiator! I think we might have opposite taste in movies, because I hated SiL. But we definitely agree on CTHD. I loved that film.
I think your description of AOL as a "big, blank hounddog" is really apt. But I still want to kidnap him and do dirty, dirty things to him. :) Honestly, I think he's fucking sexy.
Re Jim and Pam - I thought they were worth the hype in S1 and S2, but S3 put me into burn-out mode. There was something very exciting about them in the first seasons, though. Watching their relationship really made the show emotionally involving for me. I felt that excitement like it was my own friendship, my own crush. I still have fond feelings for them, but I don't want to fanfic them anymore, which is a sure sign my obsession has waned.
And finally, of course, VM. I actually STILL don't think I'm objective enough to discuss this rationally, but I'll try. I have to disagree about S2 being worse than S3. S2 may have been worse thematically, but the execution of S3 was, for me, terrible enough to obsure even the best intentions of the writers. The things that I loved about VM were the characters and the relationships, and in S3, both components became unrecognizable to me. The writers might have been telling a thematically sound story, but they were telling it about characters I no longer liked or reconized, including Logan, Keith, Wallace, and Weevil.
I totally agree with this: On that note, I fully, firmly and 100% believe that the last Logan/Veronica scene was a crystal-clear anvil from Rob Thomas that, yes, Logan and Veronica WOULD be getting back together
It's on this: because, YES!, Logan and Veronica DO belong together that we part ways.
When I weigh that last scene against the evidence of the rest of the season, I just can't convince myself that RT saw them as meant for each other, or that it was anything other than a compromise between his preferred ending and what he thought the fans might want. But I don't think your opinion on that is unpopular at all, actually. I think a lot of L/V fans felt at least slightly satisfied/relieved by the ending. I didn't really find much to like about it, though. I didn't think it said very much about their journey, positive OR negative, despite the Pilot callbacks.
I don't go much into HP fandom, so I don't know about general opinions, but Book 6 is definitely the weak link in the series. I had a couple issues with Book 7, and the epilogue is right up there. Ugh.
But I frickin' love Rent.