Wednesday, April 22, 2009

I couldn't sleep. I watched the first episode of "Charmed", which Michael loves and wanted me to watch. I wanted to like it. But I don't. It's horrible. I hate the butchering of the theme song; an ok cover of "How Soon Is Now?" by Love Spit Love that was on the soundtrack to "The Craft" - the original was by The Smiths - the theme version edits the song terribly - and as far as I know they use this version for every episode of it's EIGHT season run. I hate how none of the actors can actually act - with even the young woman from Picket Fences doing crap work - Alyssa Milano(?) came off especially bad, but part of that might have been the really horrific script. I hate the production that highlights how bad the acting is. I hate the words that are written to come out of the wanna-be-actors' mouths. And I'd read somewhere recently that in 8 seasons the series never had a gay character or storyline - and that's horrible - but what's worse is that the gays-are-invisible-series is apparently set in fucking San Francisco. Ugh. Michael reads my blog so he's going to read this... The thing is I know LOTS of gay guys who love this show...but I just can't get past the 'writing', 'lighting', 'acting' and the lack of gay representation in a series that ran 8 years, set in one of the largest gay cities in the world. It's just WRONG. I don't want to support it. I won't support it. I tried. I can see how people who just like girls who have magic powers might like the show, but I need more than that.

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