"OH MY GOD, FRIENDS, I JUST HAD A GREAT TIME WATCHING THE SILLIEST, TRASHIEST NONSENSE, THE PLOT IS TEN CLICHÉS IN A TRENCH COAT, IT'S ANOTHER TOTAL SAUSAGE FEST, AND THE SET IS MADE OF FELT AND POPSICLE STICKS"
... this is pretty much verbatim my original not-a-rec for Guardian though? (Except with a lot more waxing poetic about Zhu Yilong's face and Bai Yu's everything and THE FEELS). And yeah, I DEFINITELY have the thing where I can and do love genuinely fantastic shows, but my fannish heart belongs to those with cracks and flaws to work with. A show like Guardian, which genuinely suffers from a lot of budget and quality issues? But features compelling characters and actors able to sell the most rickety foam pillar as an unyielding obstacle, saving pathos from diving into bathos by sheer force of craft and skills?
Guh. I am GONE. There's so much magic about Guardian it's difficult to really say why it works when... *gestures* But it does, and I love it so much.
And I used to talk fondly of it as "trash" (look - felt and popsicle sticks is incredibly fair) because to me that didn't mean it was bad, it just meant it wasn't mainstream good?
But yeah turns out that hurt feelings, and while I still visualize myself as a happy little racoon in a ditch, clutching a shiny lollipop wrapper of a treasure, I learned to modulate how I express the whole "this poor show I LOVE IT SO MUCH" feeling without coming across as dissing it. It's still a playful kind of exchange I have with friends who know me and how I express my affections, but I wouldn't rec the show the same way today, and I try to avoid dwelling on the (to me) obvious flaws unless explicitly asked to give my honest opinion.
But yeah! I'm super happy and comfortable loving things I don't find perfect, and for me the lesson has been that not everybody has the same fond reaction to hearing our darling beloved show called "trash". XD
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Date: 2019-11-19 08:37 am (UTC)... this is pretty much verbatim my original not-a-rec for Guardian though? (Except with a lot more waxing poetic about Zhu Yilong's face and Bai Yu's everything and THE FEELS). And yeah, I DEFINITELY have the thing where I can and do love genuinely fantastic shows, but my fannish heart belongs to those with cracks and flaws to work with. A show like Guardian, which genuinely suffers from a lot of budget and quality issues? But features compelling characters and actors able to sell the most rickety foam pillar as an unyielding obstacle, saving pathos from diving into bathos by sheer force of craft and skills?
Guh. I am GONE. There's so much magic about Guardian it's difficult to really say why it works when... *gestures* But it does, and I love it so much.
And I used to talk fondly of it as "trash" (look - felt and popsicle sticks is incredibly fair) because to me that didn't mean it was bad, it just meant it wasn't mainstream good?
But yeah turns out that hurt feelings, and while I still visualize myself as a happy little racoon in a ditch, clutching a shiny lollipop wrapper of a treasure, I learned to modulate how I express the whole "this poor show I LOVE IT SO MUCH" feeling without coming across as dissing it. It's still a playful kind of exchange I have with friends who know me and how I express my affections, but I wouldn't rec the show the same way today, and I try to avoid dwelling on the (to me) obvious flaws unless explicitly asked to give my honest opinion.
But yeah! I'm super happy and comfortable loving things I don't find perfect, and for me the lesson has been that not everybody has the same fond reaction to hearing our darling beloved show called "trash". XD