TV taught me how to feel...
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dolorosa_12Day 3: Your favorite television program.
Predictably, my favourite TV program is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I know it's not perfect, but it has helped me and given to me in so many ways over the years, from 1998 when I first watched it as a thirteen-year-old (I didn't watch it when it first aired in Australia), to 2006 when I picked it up again as a way to procrastinate about writing my Honours thesis, to 2007-8, when I watched it in a fit of depression and realised that Season 6 was saying exactly what I felt, to 2008-9, whenlosseniaiel and I used to watch it in her room as a break from writing our MPhil dissertations.
The three greatest things it's given me are these:
1. It made me start thinking about feminism, although I stress that it didn't make me identify as a feminist. That came many years later.
2. It showed me my life on screen in a way that I'd not yet seen a TV show do. When I say that Season 6 was saying exactly what I felt, I mean it. Sure, I wasn't living on a Hellmouth and fighting literal demons on a daily basis, but I felt the same ennui and anxiety about what I would do with my life after university. And when the show first aired, my friends and I were the perfect age to watch it (about three years younger than the characters). Everyone watched it, and then everyone discussed it the next day at school.
3. It was the first time that I got really excited about the potential of television as a storytelling medium. It made me realise that it was possible to tell a gripping, engaging story that would unfold over an entire season (and series), where characters grew and changed.
It still tells me new things every time I watch it.
Day 4: Write about your closest friend(s).
Day 5: Tell us your three favorite colours.
Day 6: Your favorite season, and why.
Day 7: Have you come across Tumblr, and how has your life changed since joining?
Day 8: Are you a fitness guru or a couch potato? Talk about your exercise habits.
Day 9: Favorite meme at the moment.
Day 10: Talk about your pet(s), or pets you would like to have.
Day 11: Your top three favorite bands.
Day 12: Your thoughts or opinions about Harry Potter.
Day 13: Your thoughts or opinions about Mean Girls.
Day 14: Do you have siblings? Talk about them, or talk about what it's like to be an only child.
Day 15: Tell us your favorite junk food.
Day 16: Your favorite Disney princess movie.
Day 17: Your thoughts on Ugg boots.
Day 18: Do you drink soda more often than milk?
Day 19: The initials of your crush(es).
Day 20: Do you wear glasses? If so, what are they for?
day 21: Your favorite subject to study.
Day 22: Do you play a sport? Tell us about it. If not, talk about a different hobby you may have.
Day 23; Your opinions on Lady Gaga.
Day 24: Tell us about the last movie you saw in the cinema.
Day 25: Tell us about the last book you read (for leisure or for school).
Day 26: Name one place you would love to visit one day.
Day 27: List your three favorite girl names, three favorite boy names, and your three favorite names for a pet.
Day 28: Your first celebrity crush.
Day 29: Your opinions on the television show Glee.
Day 30: Take a picture of yourself right now and post it, or post the most recent picture you can find.
Predictably, my favourite TV program is Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I know it's not perfect, but it has helped me and given to me in so many ways over the years, from 1998 when I first watched it as a thirteen-year-old (I didn't watch it when it first aired in Australia), to 2006 when I picked it up again as a way to procrastinate about writing my Honours thesis, to 2007-8, when I watched it in a fit of depression and realised that Season 6 was saying exactly what I felt, to 2008-9, when
losseniaiel and I used to watch it in her room as a break from writing our MPhil dissertations.The three greatest things it's given me are these:
1. It made me start thinking about feminism, although I stress that it didn't make me identify as a feminist. That came many years later.
2. It showed me my life on screen in a way that I'd not yet seen a TV show do. When I say that Season 6 was saying exactly what I felt, I mean it. Sure, I wasn't living on a Hellmouth and fighting literal demons on a daily basis, but I felt the same ennui and anxiety about what I would do with my life after university. And when the show first aired, my friends and I were the perfect age to watch it (about three years younger than the characters). Everyone watched it, and then everyone discussed it the next day at school.
3. It was the first time that I got really excited about the potential of television as a storytelling medium. It made me realise that it was possible to tell a gripping, engaging story that would unfold over an entire season (and series), where characters grew and changed.
It still tells me new things every time I watch it.
Day 4: Write about your closest friend(s).
Day 5: Tell us your three favorite colours.
Day 6: Your favorite season, and why.
Day 7: Have you come across Tumblr, and how has your life changed since joining?
Day 8: Are you a fitness guru or a couch potato? Talk about your exercise habits.
Day 9: Favorite meme at the moment.
Day 10: Talk about your pet(s), or pets you would like to have.
Day 11: Your top three favorite bands.
Day 12: Your thoughts or opinions about Harry Potter.
Day 13: Your thoughts or opinions about Mean Girls.
Day 14: Do you have siblings? Talk about them, or talk about what it's like to be an only child.
Day 15: Tell us your favorite junk food.
Day 16: Your favorite Disney princess movie.
Day 17: Your thoughts on Ugg boots.
Day 18: Do you drink soda more often than milk?
Day 19: The initials of your crush(es).
Day 20: Do you wear glasses? If so, what are they for?
day 21: Your favorite subject to study.
Day 22: Do you play a sport? Tell us about it. If not, talk about a different hobby you may have.
Day 23; Your opinions on Lady Gaga.
Day 24: Tell us about the last movie you saw in the cinema.
Day 25: Tell us about the last book you read (for leisure or for school).
Day 26: Name one place you would love to visit one day.
Day 27: List your three favorite girl names, three favorite boy names, and your three favorite names for a pet.
Day 28: Your first celebrity crush.
Day 29: Your opinions on the television show Glee.
Day 30: Take a picture of yourself right now and post it, or post the most recent picture you can find.