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Sophie, my little Aussie partner in crime, has a cropped "wiggle" tail. Now I'll never be able to know for sure if she really, truly loves me!

Now THAT trailer was hilarious. Particularly loved the subtitled "Ha, ha, ha" and "Heh, heh, heh." Good thing there's no one in here to hear me giggling. I would gladly watch that show every week instead of that Smarter than a Fifth Grader show, and Two and a Half Men, and whatever else is on that should be cancelled.

My pointer Rupert ALSO has a cropped tail, and it always looks like it's wagging RIGHT in the middle. But, that's ok. I can tell he loves me by looking in his eyes! Awww....

*Cue sappy puppy music*

Liev Schreiber is the most talented and sexiest actor on earth.

I'm going to have to disagree with that Veronica Mars essay, except for the part about Woody Goodman and his victims. I never thought of it that way and it is a good point, the rest of the essay not so much.

Veronica is snarky, pure and simple. That's why she says 'mean' things. As for the "the worst thing she could do was let everyone know he was gay," I don't think that was the entirety of his intention. He was going to be in the NAVY, and the military has a don't-ask-don't-tell policy. Her telling people he was gay could have ruined his life.

In my 40 years of watching TV, it has been repeatedly demonstrated to me that any show I truly enjoy will be canceled. I am the Typhoid Mary of unusual/niche programming. And while I know it wasn't "Masterpiece Theater", I am still sad to hear that Fox has once again demonstrated its shortsightedness and ADD-philosophy programming methods. So I'm left with "Heroes" and "The Office" and the creeping dread of needing to prepare for their losses, too.

Fuck you, you goat-fellating, pablum-pushing FOX network jackasses. At some point during my lifetime, I hope to see a cable network buy you out and make you their WB/CW buttpuppet.

P.S.
(a) Liev Schrieber is great.
(b) I can't take Matt Damon seriously as an action hero because he is wee.

That Veronica Mars essay was stupid. Everyone is portrayed as a deviant on the show. It's not something the show only does to gay people.

Also, using something Dick said as an example of the show's homophobia is ridiculous. Dick is your typical douchebag frat boy. Of course he's going to make stupid comments about lesbians.

I'd like to take umbrage at the "creepy dog lover" bit, but... the shoe fits, I suppose. I'm not ashamed. Dogs keep me from having kids.

I'm dying to see the new Bourne movie, if for no other reason than to find out if they keep using the same Moby song for the end credits. For some reason I found that incredibly cool.

The Veronica Mars essay is poorly-written, particularly from an academic standpoint. How on Earth is Veronica Mars the only "caucasian lead" on the CW? One Tree Hill? Supernatural? Smallville? The essay seems to suggest that the only time TV should acknowledge homosexuality is when they've got a nice pre-packaged PSA to spread, and that when it's not, it's only for ratings. There's nothing backing up this little opinion piece - no footnotes, no sourcing, certainly no background in queer theory that might make some of her interpretations tenable under some system of interrogation.

In short, this is why you shouldn't post your first-year essays on the internet. This is basically a 'C' paper, and the author should shut it.

Lauren, YOU should shut it. By all means criticise and offer a cogent rebuttal as you did in your first paragraph, but seriously, telling the author to "shut it"? A bit draconian don't you think? From the introductory paragraph preceding the essay it almost appears that the author is playing devil's advocate, and in any case I think it's an interesting exposition of how the same material can be viewed differently by different people - it's only someone's interpretation after all. I think it's brave of the author to post their essay, and they deserve a more respectful response than "shut it."

Besides, you didn't read it properly anyway, because the comment about Veronica being "the only caucasian lead" referred to UPN, not CW.

I thought the essay was, ahm, not good and, while the "author" may be "brave" enough to post it, they must also weather the storm of critcism. People are touchy about their Veronica! (Personally, I'm "touchy" about Logan. Hiyo.)

The Veronica Mars essay has opened my eyes! Truely! I should have totally done a media course instead of frittering my years away obtaining lame assed biochemistry degree. I mean who cares about mechanisms of DNA repair, the neurological basis of memory or kinetics of drug delivery? I could have been writing an "awesome" paper about TV instead! With no referencing! Do you think its too late to go back on the PhD and change career tracts?

Holy Jesus.

Now I'm in a bad mood. I don't actually think media degrees are unworthy incidentally (I'd get lynched by about 60% of my friends if I did) but seriously, that paper got my back up. It's slightly the V Mars criticism but mainly because its a final year paper with a total of the lack of academic referencing. I'd have to agree with Lauren - a C paper.

Who describes their own paper as "awesome" anyway?

Ugh, that paper reminds me of why I don't miss college at all. It's full of the type of pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness that can run rampant in campuses.

L2 - we're not the writer's professors. Brave or not, it's not a well-written paper. We can judge it accordingly. If you're going to post something on the internet for the world to see, then you need to be prepared to deal with the criticisms, be they positive or negative.

The more I think about it, the more I have to admit that Liev Schrieber has the whole "young Orson Welles" look thing happening. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Hugs and a fresh batch of oatmeal cinnamon cookies to whoever made that Perez Hilton toon.

I agree with the criticisms of the VMars paper (although I've only made it through 3/4 of the 1st season as of yet). The points presented are the writer's opinions, sure, but the fact remains that it's an academic paper and needs some substantiated support for at least SOME of the arguments. And I don't agree with the points made regardless. Oh, and it's lame that she calls her own paper "awesome." Seriously?

But mainly I'm pissed because I've been making my way through VMars season one from Netflix, and now I know Veronica and Logan get it on. WTF?? I always spoil things for myself...

The more I think about it, the more I have to admit that Liev Schrieber has the whole "young Orson Welles" look thing happening. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.

You are my hero, RanyIt. I always got that from him.

Jesus Christ.

As soon as I saw the link to the paper I wrote for class on this website, my first reaction was "Oh, GREAT," because I knew that within a matter of hours, my inbox was going to be flooded with comments from angry VM fans who take any criticism of the show as a personal attack. And they get personal about me right back when all they know about me is that I wrote an essay they didn't happen to disagree with.

Disagree with me if you want to, that's fine, but I'd like it if the nastiness about ME could stop.

Guys? I didn't write this to piss anybody off. I wrote it for a class assignment, I wrote it because it's my opinion, and I didn't put it on the internet to stir up a flame war. I posted it so a couple of my real life friends who watch VM with me could read it. And I called it "awesome" because I think it is. Didn't mean to break the internets.

Alex: if you don't think "media degrees" (whatever those might be; it sounded like a cultural studies paper to me) are "unworthy", then why are you talking about your biochemistry degree? You're setting one up as superior to the other, and as a Humanities student, I for one find it offensive.
As for the criticisms about a lack of referencing, I doubt she handed in a paper without sources. What would be the sense in including references when she's just posting it on the Internet for her friends? Damn, people. I like VM, too, but that doesn't make it immune to criticism. Television is rife with ideologies that ought to be recognized, and sometimes criticized.

Hey Lannie, welcome to failure:
"I'll probably get in trouble for not citing any sources, but I really don't care, because...well, because I didn't have sources to cite."
From the into to the moronic essay.

Well I couldn't really post "why did I waste my time with a History degree" as I didn't do one. It wouldn't have made as much sense.

"Media" degree would refer to Media Studies or something like Film and Journalism... basically degree courses where students are required to watch TV as part of their coursework.

Samuel, your comment literally made my brain feel like it was spinning, which is quite an odd experience. I'm sorry I missed that part... and even more sorry that I stepped in to defend (on the basis of optimism, I suppose) someone who actually plans to hand in an academic paper without any references. Yikes. I've written a few critical papers on television shows and films myself, but obviously was required to justify my arguments with evidence from reputable sources. I'm really not sure how one gets to the end of their undergraduate studies without becoming familiar with that concept.

TK, please re-read this part of my comment:

"By all means criticise and offer a cogent rebuttal as you did in your first paragraph, but seriously, telling the author to "shut it"?"

As is blatantly obvious I would have thought, I was taking issue with the personal attack and the rudeness, not the actual criticism which preceded it. Learn to read what's actually written, not what you want or expect to be there.