30 Days of TV - Day 23

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Day 01 - A show that never should have been canceled
Day 02 - A show you wish more people were watching
Day 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Day 05 - A show you hate
Day 06 - Favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 07 - Least favorite episode of your favorite TV show
Day 08 - A show everyone should watch
Day 09 - Best scene ever
Day 10 - A show you thought you wouldn't like but ended up loving
Day 11 - A show that disappointed you
Day 12 - An episode you've watched more than 5 times
Day 13 - Favorite childhood show
Day 14 - Favorite male character
Day 15 - Favorite female character
Day 16 - Your guilty pleasure show
Day 17 - Favorite miniseries
Day 18 - Favorite title sequence
Day 19 - Best TV show cast
Day 20 - Favorite kiss
Day 21 - Favorite ship
Day 22 - Favorite series finale

Day 23 - Most annoying character

Oh, God. Is "everyone from Heroes" a valid answer? Seriously, I haven't watched the show in years, and it's still rage-inducing just thinking about it. If I had to narrow it down, I'd say Hiro and Mohinder were the worst offenders, by virtue of being both criminally stupid and painfully boring. Sometimes I felt like they were having a stupid-off, to see who can do the dumbest possible thing each episode. You know it's bad when I'm rooting for Adam and Sylar to kill them. Horribly.

I don't know why everybody loves Hiro so much. He drove me fucking crazy. I hated how in every arc, he had some bizarro plot line that had nothing to do with anything else (usually involving extensive time travel to make a tedious and unnecessarily drawn-out point), only to swoop in at the end, waving his goddamn sword around, all, "I wanna be a hero!!" Fuck you. You don't deserve to be a hero because you're A FUCKING IDIOT who is completely irrelevant to the actual plot.

I used to write about Heroes on my RL blog, where Mohinder at one point earned the title of "stupidest stupidhead in Stupidville," but I think it's too close to call, really. But Mohinder was dead to me when he shot HRG. You don't shoot my HRG. I don't care if they brought him back to life, I'm still pissed. Also, I hated his voice overs.

Oh, and you know who else I hated? Maya. I hated both the Wonder Twins, but then Sylar killed Annoying Boy Twin (whose name I don't even remember), so he didn't annoy me anymore. (Sometimes it's nice to have a crazy fucker around to thin out the riff-raff.) I got all excited when he killed Maya, too, but then Mohinder brought her back to life (See? Too. Stupid. To. Live.), for which I will never, EVER forgive him. OMG, I was so pissed. You have no idea how thrilled I was to see her dead, and then they TOOK IT BACK, the bastards.

Honorable Mentions: Mandy and Amy from The West Wing (what can I say, Josh has terrible taste in women). Summer Glau in everything ever.

We're in the home stretch now...

Day 24 - Best quote
Day 25 - A show you plan on watching (old or new)
Day 26 - OMG WTF? Season finale
Day 27 - Best pilot episode
Day 28 - First TV show obsession
Day 29 - Current TV show obsession
Day 30 - Saddest character death

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Oh yay! So you're in season 2. Because the thing I wanted to giggle about was how Mandy completely disappears without a trace after season 1, even though they had the perfect opportunity to write her out. "In the Shadow of Two Gunmen" is supposed to pick up immediately from "What Kind of Day Has It Been?" and yet, they've all managed to completely forget Mandy ever worked for them in the span of the shooting. They didn't even bother to kill her off, lol.

Kenny confusion cracks me up. :)

[penny-lane-42.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's been driving me CRAZY. It's the one continuity issue that's bothering me. Because you're right--they totally did have reason to write her out with that whole "the paper going around" thing.

But I'm glad she's gone. :D

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It does happen more than once on this show that characters disappear (like Cathy! Sam has an assistant for the first season, and then she's just gone and he starts using Toby's), I think largely due to actor availability, but Mandy is the most blatant. That's the only time it happened to a series regular.

But yeah, I'm glad she's gone, too, so it doesn't bother me. :)

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I forgot about her! Weird!

You know, you can throw two lines in there and take care of that sort of thing. I will never understand why writers don't do that. *coughjosscough*

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Hahaha, you know, Mandy's disappearance has coined a term for where those characters end up.

I don't know why it's so hard to explain these things. Just once, I would like a show where continuity matters. (VM was continuity porn in season 1, but then it all fell apart.)

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HAHAHA that's fabulous.

I know. Believe me, I know. Yet another reason why I should be In Charge of Television (Yes, All of It).

Trust me: one day when I'm creating/writing for my own TV show? Continuity will matter. I might even hire a Superfan to fact-check every episode I write for the sake of continuity.

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I should be In Charge of Television, too. But I'll volunteer to be your Superfan instead!

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Seriously, whenever TV disappoints me, I mentally start picking out the writers that will write on my TV show--from my flist. Because I am dead serious: if I put together a group of writers from my flist and we made a show together, that show would be amazing, because we know how this stuff works and we care and we pay attention and we're generally awesome.

So you can be on my list.

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Word. And also woo!

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I think The Sopranos has good continuity. But then, I've never done anything but watch it, so I have no idea what people say when they dissect it online, LOL. But I don't remember thinking WTF at any point (though I could be missing something). I did think WTF on VM at several points, even though I've only watched it once, and wasn't consciously trying to dissect it. There were just things that stood out that badly.

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I've never seen The Sopranos, but it's on my list of things to get to eventually. (We can talk more about that on Day 25, lol.)