Wonderfalls -- Karma Chameleon

[butterfly]

I will get around to answering comments. Maybe even tonight.

*pause*

I'm totally a disaffected Gen Y who doesn't bother to do anything, aren't I? At any second, I'll start feeling a great kinship with Jaye.

Okay, I do have a question. Why do the critics keep calling this a drama? It's not. Wonderfalls is a comedy. Where's the drama? I have, thus far, seen no drama. This is a surreal comedy. More than anything, this show make me laugh. It's very good at that. Much more consistently funny than Buffy (though I wasn't watching Buffy primarily for humor, so that doesn't really matter).

It did amuse me, but there's no there there. I feel no need to dissect the show. I feel no particular need to talk about it. I still haven't talked about it, because I just can't work up the necessary level of emotion. I have no attachment.

I suspect that I'll watch again next week if my schedule allows. I also suspect that if my schedule conflicts, I won't bother recording it. It's not Angel, and doesn't share the same night as Angel, so if I have to work on Friday, Tim will be out of luck when it comes to me as a viewer (of course, as I haven't a Nielson box, this doesn't matter much, either, in the long run).

Comments

[minim_calibre]

There is, it seems, an arc of sorts. Or, you know, so claims the Tim. Who also describes it as a comedy he breaks like a drama, with each episode starting with the notion of how will this affect Jaye rather than what situation would be funny.

There's a there, but not the same sort of there as Angel. If that makes sense. A there that's less about the weight of the world than the weight of the what.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Arcs are good. Finding out the weight of the what is good. I just wish that it made more internal sense. Maybe it does, in which case, I wish that I had a hint of it making internal sense.

[elz.livejournal.com]

I'm totally a disaffected Gen Y who doesn't bother to do anything, aren't I? At any second, I'll start feeling a great kinship with Jaye.

Jaye is me to a startling degree. But personality-wise, she's all the parts of me that I dislike, and I'm not sure if that really endears her to me or not. So while I'm watching the show, it feels like my narcissism is wrestling with my desire to slap myself in the face, and it's all a little unnerving. I think I need a lion of my own.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That's a good point. Jaye is what I'm trying to grow out of. She's what I don't want to be. Which is probably part of why I don't feel a great attachment ot her.