But it's joyous fun to read other people's reactions to fine masterworks such as Boa vs. Python and Family Album, even if - no, who am I kidding? Especially because - those reactions consist of capslocked flailings about giant plastic snakes and the tragedy of growing up gay in a Danielle Steel movie.) But, even though I love the back catalog effect (especially with Canadian actors, who apparently have to appear in a movie or TV show every 15 days or else the Canadian government will shoot their moms, and sometimes, when you have to act to save your mom, you make artistic compromises), I've never gotten all that far into the six degrees fandoms.
... Yes to both parts. I've never gotten into Six Degrees business (I'm not one of those people who can sit through Awesomely Stupid Movie just because Awesomely Hot Actor is in it), but the Back Catalog Effect (we can capitalize it, right?) is fantastic. Especially when you get whole essays on how nuanced the performances are and how you can totally see how Current Fandom Character developed through the forty (-five thousand, if they're Canadian) roles they've had in the past. (Or, you know, in the case of Joe Flanigan, it's the same character in different clothes and you just follow the evolution of The Hair.) And it always comes with picspam. Which means that you get the best part of the crappy movies without having to sit through the crappy movies.
I never did the role-playing thing, but my roommates did and I loved them for it. Not for the bizarre arguments leaking out from behind closed doors at two in the morning, but instead for the fact that they always had funny dice that I, the math major who needed to figure out how to rotate the group of vertices of a dodecahedron, could borrow.
Actual relevant comment: I'm glad Yoshino made the rec set. It's a fun take on the three characters -- they're grown ups, they know what they want (okay, so only two of them will admit it), and it's all-around good stuff.
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... Yes to both parts. I've never gotten into Six Degrees business (I'm not one of those people who can sit through Awesomely Stupid Movie just because Awesomely Hot Actor is in it), but the Back Catalog Effect (we can capitalize it, right?) is fantastic. Especially when you get whole essays on how nuanced the performances are and how you can totally see how Current Fandom Character developed through the forty (-five thousand, if they're Canadian) roles they've had in the past. (Or, you know, in the case of Joe Flanigan, it's the same character in different clothes and you just follow the evolution of The Hair.) And it always comes with picspam. Which means that you get the best part of the crappy movies without having to sit through the crappy movies.
I never did the role-playing thing, but my roommates did and I loved them for it. Not for the bizarre arguments leaking out from behind closed doors at two in the morning, but instead for the fact that they always had funny dice that I, the math major who needed to figure out how to rotate the group of vertices of a dodecahedron, could borrow.
Actual relevant comment: I'm glad Yoshino made the rec set. It's a fun take on the three characters -- they're grown ups, they know what they want (okay, so only two of them will admit it), and it's all-around good stuff.