Dexter vs. Deep Space Nine
August 26th, 2008 | Author: TastyTrixie
Our friend AmberLily is a big Dexter fan, so her blog and tweets reminded us to check it out. I figured I would love it and looked forward to getting it through Netflix and starting from the beginning.
We only made it through one and a half episodes before we sent it back. In some ways it was just my style; I *DELIGHT* in movies like Gacy, Ed Gein, May and American Psycho. Dexter is stylish, a little campy, witty, etc. I appreciated many aspects of what I saw, but I totally didn’t want to spend any more time watching it. Part of the problem was that I loathed the female characters. Another problem is that we watch our netflixed tv shows at night before bed, and Dexter is just too dark and ludicrously violent to be relaxing then.
I’m also hypercritical of stories of vigilantism when the vigilante is a MAN, meting out “justice” for crimes perpetrated against women and/or children. REALLY annoys me (except in the movie Buster and Billie which I *love*).
And it was just too far-fetched. I know, it’s in a way that’s probably cool to other people but for me was just annoying. I’m pretty hard to please in the crime drama department, preferring/loving the stuff that’s openly based on real crimes or is documentary style (almost all the crap on “Tru” tv). Also, since we’ve been part of shooting a few low-budget movies I have a harder time suspending disbelief when we watch other people’s acting; I feel awkward for the actors and wonder how much time went into crafting certain scenes – the veil has been lifted even with the small-scale stuff we done and everything seems so transparent. I felt that way (embarrassed) a lot watching Michael C. Hall in his “action” scenes where he’s confronting his victims.
We prefer to watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine before bed. I know it doesn’t make sense when I criticized Dexter for being too far-fetched, but whatever. It makes me feel good to totally escape into a positive, optimistic vision of the future. I like going to sleep with messages of hope. Watching shows like Next Gen, Deep Space Nine, and Northern Exposure is like going to an ideal version of church for me where nobody expects you to believe in God and everyone at least TRIES to treat everybody else with kindness. People express enthusiasm, wonder and awe at the mystery of it all and the boundlessness of possibilities is depicted as something people can experience while they’re still alive.
So Deep Space Nine (with help from Weeds, Entourage, Spaced and Big Love) beat Dexter off our queue.
Note to AmberLily: I just want you to know that I started writing this BEFORE you tweeted that you hate Seattle. And I don’t hate Dexter as much as you hate Seattle — I was so close to loving it! Some of the images were so beautiful . . .
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Speaking of TV shows sent you an email about “Mad Men” then remembered your email may still be down.
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Fans atwitter over shutdown of “Mad Men” feed .
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Cable network AMC has angered online fans of its critically acclaimed drama “Mad Men” by asking social networking site Twitter to shut down feeds inspired by the show.
The fan-penned feeds consist of brief text-message-length posts in the voices of “Mad Men” characters. Users can subscribe to the daily musings of virtual Don Draper, Peggy Olson and other employees of fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper.
Twitter’s presentation doesn’t make clear whether the feeds are endorsed by the network, and AMC didn’t appreciate that some of the characters promoted products other than the show (including Twitter itself). The network complained, and Twitter yanked some of the feeds, causing the surviving “characters” to start frantically Twittering about getting “fired.”
“It seems very quiet in the office today,” noted boss Bertram Cooper.
“I worked hard. I did my job. But the boys at Twitter are just as churlish as the boys at Sterling Cooper. Such a pity they’re so petty,” Olson wrote on a newly registered account after her first feed was suspended.
The shutdown resulted in bloggers and Twitter fans criticizing AMC: “Its legal maneuvering may go down as the single worst use (misuse?) of social media,” Adrants.com wrote.
Read More here
http://news.yahoo.com/story//nm/20080826/tv_nm/madmen_dc
Ooooh! Thanks for the gossip — I am so glad they shut them down. I can’t stand those impostor tweets and do not know how a real fan could violate characters they’re supposed to love. It really bothers me. I can’t believe people think they’re entitled to steal characters that way and have the balls to get huffy when those opportunities are taken away.
AMC decides to allow fans’ ‘Mad Men’ Twittering
It looks like wiser heads–or at least those who could be made to recognize a great PR opportunity–have prevailed at AMC.
If you’re one of the many hooked fans of the cable channel’s hit show, Mad Men, which chronicles the goings-on at a fictional 1960s New York ad agency, and you’re also a Twitter user, you might have found yourself eagerly following tweets from folks like Don Draper, Roger Sterling, or Peggy Olson.
And getting people to follow the show’s characters probably seemed like a clever way of using Twitter for marketing.
Except that AMC had nothing to do with it. And after discovering that somebody out there in the badlands of the Internet was appropriating its characters without permission, the network filed a DMCA takedown notice with Twitter, forcing the microblogging service to suspend the accounts.
Which, if you think about it, doesn’t make a lot of sense. Why would you stop someone from driving interest in your content, especially when they’re doing it for free–and not damaging your brand?
Surely there are some copyright issues that AMC’s lawyers were worried about, and indeed, I’d be very interested in knowing what those issues are.
But according to Silicon Alley Insider, AMC has decided, after being “gently nudged” by its Web marketing agency, Deep Focus, into changing its mind and letting Twitter reactivate the accounts.
And by “gently nudging,” I hope they mean they screamed and yelled and threatened to quit if AMC didn’t see the value of letting fans promote the show on their own.
Either way, it’s good to see that Draper, Sterling, Olson, and other show characters are once again letting us know about their latest comings and goings.
read more here
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10027152-52.html
Dexter’s sister is the most annoying character ever in the first season. The actress definitely over acts and just gets on my nerves. However, she does get better in the second season. I don’t know how I managed to finish the first season (there are really beautiful shots and I was very bored). I watched the first season on netflix watch now, however I go to surfthechannel.com because it’s free and I don’t think it’s worth it to waste my netflix