Calling back to a good bit earlier: I haven't seen
The Wire,
but I can't handle the pacing of
Mad Men.
And by that I simply mean that every time I watch an episode I say "Huh, that was good." and then I walk away and it's another month or two before I sit down and say "What should I watch? Oh, I guess I can watch another episode of
Mad Men."
It's not that it's bad. In fact, I can recognize its excellence. It just completely and utterly fails to inspire me with long-term interest. At least, it's failed to do so in the first 5 episodes, which is all I've watched. I had the exact same thing happen with
The Sopranos,
Deadwood
and, interestingly,
Battlestar Galactica.
All of those provide plenty of exciting moments, so it can hardly be blamed on a lack of adrenaline rushes - it's something about the narrative style. I like a little less subtlety, I guess.
To somehow connect it to this thread, if
Mad Men
were a movie, I'd want it to win the Oscar, but I wouldn't buy the DVD.
I just ran the cast of
The Losers
past a genre geek at work, and nope. He got who Chris Evans and Zoe Saldana were after I cited their resumes, but no initial name recognition there. I am so alone. I didn't even bother pushing the JDM thing.
Hell, I guess the movie's doing pretty well--he only thought he'd heard of it when I complained of my earworm. No print recognition at all.
If I wasn't a SPN watcher, I would still know who JDM is due to Grey's Anatomy. But that might be a girl thing.
And I've known who Zoe Saldana is since Center Stage, but that's ... probably also a girl thing.
I think the combination of those is an Amy/Aimee thing.
But that might be an Amy/Aimee thing.
JDM was also on Weeds, so I know who he is from three shows. Although, again, maybe a Girl thing. I vaguely know who Zoe Saldana is, but only from her being mentioned as a "person of color" who should have gone on Vanity Fair's lily white "Young Hollywood" cover. The only image I am getting from Chris Evans is either Lana Lang's first boyfried dude or Marissa Cooper's first boyfirend dude.
I like Perkins things, too!
But Amy/Aimee has a such a nice ring to it.
I would know JDM's face from Grey's but not his name. I would know Zoe's name from all the avatar press, but not her face. Would not know the name Chris Evans and the images from the movie didn't ping me as the same guy from FF.
