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Well, my physio therapist but a kibosh on my gym plans (I was thinking I might try tonight, even though I hurt like a motherfucker) so I'm sitting here with an ice pack on my back, watching Torchwood and eating CRUNCHY chips. I've been having cravings for yummy crunchy chips lately. I'm not a chip person, either.

I was looking at new cars today. I'm hesitant to get another Yaris, even though I loved mine, just because I'm so skittish right now with driving (I feel that zing of fear when I'm approaching lights that might go yellow as I'm approaching now) and like... I don't know. It's like when an actor in one of your favourite movies does something reprehensible so you can't watch the movie anymore. I think I want something with a little more ass end to it so if I get rear ended again there will be more there to take the impact.

So I'm looking at a Matrix, Corolla and, still, a Yaris. Going 4 door this time, though. The Matrix is the most expensive and has some wicked blind spots, from the short look I got, but I like the look of it. The Corolla is only $1 more a month in lease than the Yaris. But I like my hatchback. So I don't know. I'm torn.

I can't even properly test drive a vehicle right now just because I'm still so sore. I can't turn my head right or look around well so I don't want to be out in a strange vehicle and making choices on something I'm (hopefully) going to have for a few years.

ANYWAY. I has a meme.

Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom.

I'm into SPN, True Blood, Twilight, Twilight RPS, CW RPS, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Um... I'll do Buffy and QaF, Gossip Girl, Veronica Mars and I think that's it. Try me. I don't know how unpopular my opinions will be but I'll try for something.

Comments

[gee-mon.livejournal.com]

i cant pick between SPN, True Blood and BtVS...so do one or all of those :D

[marishna.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. How about one for each since there's supposed to be three for one? I think? I don't know what the hell is going on.

SPN - I'm okay if the show ends with Sam and Dean dying. I think a lot (if not most?) people would react hella violently if that happened but I'm okay with it. Bring on the death and destruction!

True Blood - The books that this show is based on are horrible. I think they're just one step down from the horrors of writing that are Laurell K. Hamilton books (Her later Anita Blake books, anyway). I tried to read the first one and couldn't even finish it. I don't know what it was that set me off but I found it boring and that it dragged on.

Buffy - I think the show should have ended in season 5 as Joss originally intended it to. I've come to appreciate s6 & 7 in a new light now that I've had a few years of distance between them but I feel the show would have been much more monumental had it ended with Buffy's death.

[gee-mon.livejournal.com]

Don't know how I feel about it ending that way.... I do think that that would be the best way to end it without leaving it open because in their world the demons would never quit but I'd like it to end with them dying but also killing the asshole too ya know?

In regards to the books... I found the first one to be really crappy but I kept reading them and....in my opinion....they got better as they went on....you just gotta get through the first couple. :(

I LOVED how season 5 ended. And I agree it would have been great if it ended there. I don't really like season 6 because it seems all willy nilly but I love how it came back for season 7. I think that's a great way to end the show and still have the hero live. It gived it good closure that isn't as sad as season 5 was.

[notthebigspoon.livejournal.com]

CW RPS!

[marishna.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm. I don't know if I have three opinions, especially unpopular, about this. Let me think.

01) I don't get Misha. I find the idea of him and Jared having an illicit relationship intriguing but beyond that I don't get him. His twitters confuse the hell out of me and his interest in the fandom in general, especially since he's been interacting with it, creeps me out a bit. No, not a bit. A lot. But I'd read/write fic with him and Jared in it and if he read it I don't think I'd care. But I'd freak if he ever tweeted me. Not even about the fic, just in general.

02) I think if we heard Jensen's opinions on sensitive subjects a lot of people would be offended and put off/disappointed. I don't know why and I have NO reason to think this but I feel that if he were to open up about, say, gay marriage, we (the general fandom population) wouldn't like what he had to say. I think Jared could be along the same lines but he'd be more diplomatic/easy going if put on the spot like that. And PLEASE LORD NEVER LET THEM BE!!! I don't WANT to hear their opinions on such things.

03) I don't know if this really counts but I think both of the boys are looking forward to the show ended. If it goes on they'll continue with it but I think they're looking forward to season 5 to be the end and I think some of that has to do with ... not the fans but all the stuff that goes with the insanity of the fans. The intrusion into their private lives, the fandom around them, weirdness at cons, etc.

I don't know, are those "unpopular"? I dont' even know if they're opinions so much as wild theories.

[dwell-ondreams.livejournal.com]

How about Twilight?

I'm new car shopping too. It's quite frustrating. :(

[marishna.livejournal.com]

Twiiiiiilight. Oh, Twilight. I have such a love/hate thing with it.

01) I like the movie better than the books now. When I first read the books I was like- Oh, they're so cheesy and remind me of when I was 13. But now that I've read the whole series and have had MANY a "WTF?!" moment over them I LOVE the movie. I mean, I watch that thing forever. The books are shit and although the movie is, too, I love it way better than the books. That's never happened with me.

02) I love that RPattz and KStew are so obviously not into all the hype and are so uncomfortable with it. I really don't believe they realized what was going to happen to them and probably didn't even think there would be three more movies out of this. But once it blew up they didn't have a choice, really.

03) SMey is completely oblivious to how goddamn lucky she is. I don't know if I'd call her ungrateful, exactly, but her completely blase attitude toward making sure this scene was shot right or getting to see that part done the way she saw it, being on set, getting her opinions put into the story, etc, etc pisses me off. I'm not sure I know of any other author who has had the rights to their book(s) optioned that has had such a huge hand in making the movie. Not that I think her NOT having a hand would have made it a better movie but I just think she needs to realize that this isn't normal and that she's even successful is a joke.

Stephen King hit the nail on the head--she's not good.

But I don't know if I'd have it any other way. I love the movie, love RPattz and KStew (I think that's 90% of why I'm even hanging out in the fandom--because I love them together and all the possibilities of them) and love the complete bullshit around it all. I'm flabbergasted by the whole phenomenon and yet I eat it up.

[gee-mon.livejournal.com]

i soooo agree with you on point 3. well....make that all the points. I love the movies and had to put my teeny bopper hat on to really get the books. I think the movies will be more "mature" than the books because we don't have to sit through the semi-bad writing.

As for #3 I get the vibe that she just expects that attention b/c she's the author and in most situations authors don't get that input after they sell the rights so she should just shut up and be a bit more grateful, really.

[beathen.livejournal.com]

I'm laughing at all your comments to everyone else because I just got updated on several of my favorite shows - I don't really follow the gossip and I'm "out of the loop"! :)

Anyway, I'll play. Bring on Torchwood.

[marishna.livejournal.com]

Torchwood! Can't wait for the third series, even though it's only five fucking episodes. :(

01) If I had to choose between TW Jack and DW Jack I'd pick DW Jack. I was disappointed with what he'd become in TW, from DW. When he returned for his s3 guest spot on DW he was written differently, it felt, than what he was in TW. I can't tell if that was a conscious choice by the writers on TW or they're just trying to differentiate the characters on each show or if Jack is really meant to be such an annoying hard ass on TW but I'd like to see a little of DW Jack on TW sometimes.

To clarify, I'm referring to the serious, 'I know what you don't so don't question me ever or go behind my back, Jack' about EVERYTHING on TW. There were times in both series that he annoyed the fuck out of me with things he did and said. If the writers only did that to create suspense or push the rest of the plot lines in episodes that's really sad.

02) I didn't care about Tosh that much. I was sad that she died but I really didn't care that her character wasn't more examined.

03) I liked Owen best with Gwen. I don't know if it's a kink I have or something but I loved them together, all illicit and stuff. When Owen "fell in love" with that pilot from the past I was bored. I was bored with a lot of Owen's life. When he fought the weevils, when he started the rift maker to get the pilot back, when he joined TW after his fiancee died, etc, etc. Until the end when he died I really didn't care too much.

[ithilmenel.livejournal.com]

QaF!

[marishna.livejournal.com]

Ahh, QaF. I'm re-watching the show right now with my bff after a few years away from it so my opinions have changed from what they would have been with the first watch.

01) I'm happy with the way the series ended. Giving Brian and Justin a typical happy ending would have been a recipe for disaster with them because they're not typical and can't be.

02) Brian saying 'I love you' to Justin creeped me out. In the heat of the moment I liked it but now that I've had time and distance from it... it just didn't work that well. The last few episodes of the series kinda squick me out until Brian sends Justin to New York.

03) Um um um. Michael is horrible. I don't understand how he got the boyfriends he did. It was one thing for Brian to be his BFF because as a friend and someone to push around Michael was ace. And he would do anything for Brian. But Michael is ALWAYS so whiny, judgmental, rude and terrible to everyone. He's supposed to be the "heart" of the show but good LORD. He's so fucking annoying! The way he walks, the way he talks, the faces he makes, everything. I can't tell if that's the way Hal Sparks played him (Mr. I'm not gay! Did you know I'm not gay? I play gay on the show but I'M not gay!) or the way he was written. It could be six of one, half dozen of the other, really, the way this show was always written.

[kilynn16.livejournal.com]

May I ask, what is your opinion of the Yaris? Because I'm shopping around and keep coming back to this Yaris hatchback dealio, but idk anyone who has one. So anything you could tell me would help.

Sorry about your accident; I hope you get to feeling better. :)

[marishna.livejournal.com]

The Yaris. My opinions of it are a bit skewed right now because of the accident. While I had it and I WASN'T being rear ended, I loved it. It was small, good on gas and got me from point A to point B.

It sucked in the winter, however. It has no stability control and it's so light that if you're doing a lot of long-distance traveling, especially in shitty conditions I would recommend to just NOT. Slippery roads and any kind of wind, especially in open plain areas are a recipe for disaster with this car. I slid through many an intersection with this car during the past winter.

Space wise, for such a tiny car the back seat is very roomy. The whole car is very roomy, actually. There are more than adequate cup holders (they're EVERYWHERE!).

Had I never been rear ended or only the one time when it was a minor fender bender, I wouldn't have a problem with it at all. But the next car I'm getting is going to have a little more heft to it and a little more ass end to it. I'll miss the Yaris but I won't be sad that I don't have it anymore because now I need to feel safer in my vehicle.

After having the Yaris I have found I'm more partial to a hatchback model, as well, and am now looking at a Matrix. I find the hatchbacks more spacious (even if it's only an illusion) than a regular sedan model.