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[Al Foley]

About DR I mean I don't *know* her obviously but she seems like a genuinely warm person and we seem to have a fair bit in common to boot.  

[akbogert]

get to know. and the characters aren't from movies when it starts. books, video games etc.

 

Yeah, so that sounds like what folks are calling demisexuality these days. Emotional connection preceding attraction. 

[Al Foley]

Yeah, so that sounds like what folks are calling demisexuality these days. Emotional connection preceding attraction. 

*sigh*  

[akbogert]

About DR I mean I don't *know* her obviously but she seems like a genuinely warm person and we seem to have a fair bit in common to boot.  

 

Textbook parasocial relationship. 

[Al Foley]

Textbook parasocial relationship. 

uh...what?

[akbogert]

uh...what?

 

I think I discussed it a bit a little while back but it's what I studied in my previous graduate program. People form emotional and psychological connections with personae (could be people or characters) whom they've never actually met. The brain experiences indirect interaction (aka watching shows, reading books, general exposure to the persona) the same way it experiences actual interpersonal interaction. As such, even though we know on a conscious level that we don't really know celebrities or characters, our mind processes things as if we did, and so we form the same kind of attachments to those people as we do to the people in our actual lives. The attachment is mostly weaker, but it's the same type of attachment. This is why we get sad and go through actual minor physiological processes of withdrawal and grief when characters we love die or when a long-running show goes off the air. It's also why particularly beloved celebrities are so effective when alive and produce legitimate crying and grieving when they die. 

[Bolt]

I get crushes on fictional characters who have never existed. It's so bad haha

Same here.  I feel no attachment to the actor, just the character.  And it's not necessarily the best-looking one, either.  Tends to be the smart ones that I like best.

[straykat]

I remember thinking Winona Ryder in Heathers was hot.

 

[Al Foley]

Same here.  I feel no attachment to the actor, just the character.  And it's not necessarily the best-looking one, either.  Tends to be the smart ones that I like best.

In at least two cases, the obvious ones, my attraction towards the actress helped me appreciate the character better.  Though I suspect Aeryn Sun and Sarah Walker also probably  belong in this category even though Claudia Black is my favorite actress of all time. 

[straykat]

In at least two cases, the obvious ones, my attraction towards the actress helped me appreciate the character better.  Though I suspect Aeryn Sun and Sarah Walker also probably  belong in this category even though Claudia Black is my favorite actress of all time. 

 

I've yet to really see that sci-fi show she was on. I can't hang with it.. maybe because of the lead actor. Not her.

[Bolt]

I've yet to really see that sci-fi show she was on. I can't hang with it.. maybe because of the lead actor. Not her.

Farscape?  A friend begged me to try it and insisted I'd be hooked.  I watched the whole first season and wasn't hooked.

 

I was, apparently, too 'star-trekky.'

[straykat]

Farscape?  A friend begged me to try it and insisted I'd be hooked.  I watched the whole first season and wasn't hooked.

 

I was, apparently, too 'star-trekky.'

 

Yeah, that's it.

 

I kept it on my netflix list though.. for another attempt one day.

[Al Foley]

I've yet to really see that sci-fi show she was on. I can't hang with it.. maybe because of the lead actor. Not her.

 

B-but...Ben Browder is awesome tacular.  

Farscape?  A friend begged me to try it and insisted I'd be hooked.  I watched the whole first season and wasn't hooked.

 

I was, apparently, too 'star-trekky.'

That's the problem right there.  Most shows suck in their first season and do not find their footing until Season 2.  I'd be so starved for entertainment if I gave up just after season 1.  Only shows which really had a good first season were SG-1, Firefly, and 24.  

[akbogert]

B-but...Ben Browder is awesome tacular.  

That's the problem right there.  Most shows suck in their first season and do not find their footing until Season 2.  I'd be so starved for entertainment if I gave up just after season 1.  Only shows which really had a good first season were SG-1, Firefly, and 24.  

 

That's true of most shows. Except True Detective, which was phenomenal its first season and then totally **** the bed. 

[straykat]

B-but...Ben Browder is awesome tacular.  

That's the problem right there.  Most shows suck in their first season and do not find their footing until Season 2.  I'd be so starved for entertainment if I gave up just after season 1.  Only shows which really had a good first season were SG-1, Firefly, and 24.  

 

I don't know. Some shows just ooze trash right away. Not that I think that of Farscape.. I was just uninterested.

 

Gotham is a show I won't give another chance.

[Al Foley]

I wouldn't be watching/ have watched and liked, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica (the Ron Moore version), if I just gave up after the first season. 

[Bolt]

I don't know. Some shows just ooze trash right away. Not that I think that of Farscape.. I was just uninterested.

 

Gotham is a show I won't give another chance.

Same.

 

I think I spent the entire viewing time going 'Eh?  Uh, no.'  I could've been put to music.

[straykat]

I wouldn't be watching/ have watched and liked, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica (the Ron Moore version), if I just gave up after the first season. 

 

BGS is only good early on.. it's after Starbucks died that it sucks.

 

Same with TWD. I'm still interested in GoT.

[LightningPoodle]

*makes a gruff sound after waking up*

[Al Foley]

BGS is only good early on.. it's after Starbucks died that it sucks.

 

Same with TWD. I'm still interested in GoT.

Yeah BSG was horribly inconsistant, same with TWD.  It gets good...then bad...then GOOD...then bad. 

[akbogert]

I think the second season of Gotham has been much better, though it is still not the show I want it to be.

 

Meanwhile Arrow is still trying to recover from an awful third season, but is getting mired in trying to set up Legends of Tomorrow. I'm optimistic that next year it will pick back up again, since it will have been able to offload those plotlines to Legends. Same goes for The Flash, though that show has still been good and was good in its first season too. 

[Bolt]

Yeah BSG was horribly inconsistant, same with TWD.  It gets good...then bad...then GOOD...then bad. 

I haven't seen it.  I'll probably get around to it.  I usually start watching something when it's a decade or so out of fashion.

[Gold Dragon]

Higher ups wanted to kill off the Star Trek TV series.  Now it's got what 12 movies?

[Al Foley]

Higher ups wanted to kill off the Star Trek TV series.  Now it's got what 12 movies?

Indeed and I am not a big Trekkie. 

[Al Foley]

So now I am trying to pick up the pieces and go back to writing something after not doing it for a month.  Can I do it?