Drama Yuck

[kokopelle]

I've stopped watching "Heroes". Why? I think it all goes back to the teaser ending from last season. It was implied that the power absorbing hero was going to go nuclear and kill everyone in an explosion. This should have tantalized me to watch the next season. It just turned me off. I was caring about the characters and did not want to see them all blown up. What did I do? I stopped watching it. I have been stashing the episodes on DVD (TIVO w/ built-in DVD burner = cool!). I'll catch up with them some day.

I find myself doing this with other shows. I stopped watching Battlestar Galatica because it was just too damn intense. The characters seemed to be expendable to the writers. Is there anything wrong with this? No. Shoot, this makes for high drama. The thing is that I don't enjoy this kind of TV.

You know what, I'm probably this way with the rest of my life. Drama-trauma makes me want to back up and move in another direction. It's good to know this about me. Recently I had to participate in a resolution to a mystery school conflict. While that chapter has passed, the drama inherent in the process makes a part of me want to run for the hills. Shoot, in the past I would have gone off the deep end. It is a credit to the mystery school for having facilitated a stronger sense of self-worth in me. It's a good thing, because I don't know what I would have done a coupla years ago under the same circumstances. Anyway, that's water under the bridge. The point is that drama-trauma of the situation is inclining me to back the heck up.

I'm not backing up. Why? The recognition of the trait allows me to consider if there are goals that I want to achieve that would be sabotaged by the retreat. There are goals that I have and hence I am sticking in there. I can't hold others to perfect behavior. Drama-trauma happens. People in general have a screw loose. I hold myself up as the model to this. Those screws can make life interesting, life drama-trauma, and all part of being human.

Comments

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Oh, but you missed the best parts. No one will die (at least not a lot of people). They're gonna contain Peter's explosion somehow. It'll happen next Monday. :)

[elegy-of-flames.livejournal.com]

They did WHAT to BS:G? If they kill off Starbuck I'm not going to rent & watch season 3 :/

[greensh.livejournal.com]

Shoot... I don't know if they killed of Starbuck. I was just saying that BS:G has a habit of "abusing" the characters. Too much for me!

[elegy-of-flames.livejournal.com]

Ooo, pretty picture... *stares vacantly*

And yeah, I noticed the abuse even by the end of season two. Like the whole "Kara + Apollo true love forever" party line in the subtext, but they place as many possible obstacles between the two characters as possible in the name of truth, justice, and greater angst!

Now THAT's emo ;)

[greensh.livejournal.com]

The very talented moonvoice drew it on commission.

The full picture of the my totem horse can be found here (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/53744929/?qo=4&q=by%3Aravenari&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps) and her online gallery is here (http://ravenari.deviantart.com/gallery/).

[iskender.livejournal.com]

But when the conflict flows out of the characters, it's natural and the situation that develops has to be concluded. It's surprising to me that you're able to turn away in the middle--if the conflict is legitimate, how can you not find out what happens to the characters that you cared about?

[greensh.livejournal.com]

TV conflict being legitimate. This is an interesting concept. I suppose that the modern media is also the modern myth. The conflict, while 'imaginary', is a glimpse of the society's soul.

Why don't I watch? Sometimes I am just too busy finding out how Goren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Goren) crushes the souls of the guilty.

BTW, congrats on the graduation. Kudos my friend!

[greensh.livejournal.com]

Or rather, it is a glimpse of the society's mythic soul. How much do you buy into the value of myth as a function of usefulness to a society?