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Watching TV - there must be a trick that I'm missing
How do you guys watch TV?
This is a serious question. Ever since I got sick I rediscovered watching TV in an attempt to brighten my mood. Turns out it's not as effortless as I thought it was, because pretending that things never happened to keep my mood from plummeting isn't effortless, relaxed entertainment.
It used to be easy before I got sick - turn on TV, forget I am a gay woman and that I actually care about people, go.
Now, not only can I not forget I'm a gay woman, I'm also no longer able to appreciate cynicism because again, it hurts my mood. And I like being in a good mood. I only started watching TV again because it requires comparatively less effort than reading and since my expectations of TV are so low that I'm not as easily disappointed or hurt by issues relating to LGBT people/gender/race, bad characters, bad writing, historical inaccuracies, you name it.
Still, even given my really low expectations, it's getting harder and harder to watch TV without needing to make a conscious effort to pretend that what you just saw did not happen and force your mind to black out whatever comedy or sitcom just drove home that people like me deserve to die/be raped/be tortured/be in pain because that's funny.
Is there a trick to this that I'm missing? If you watch TV, I'd like to know what your methods are, and I'd also be really grateful for recommendations for funny series.
This is a serious question. Ever since I got sick I rediscovered watching TV in an attempt to brighten my mood. Turns out it's not as effortless as I thought it was, because pretending that things never happened to keep my mood from plummeting isn't effortless, relaxed entertainment.
It used to be easy before I got sick - turn on TV, forget I am a gay woman and that I actually care about people, go.
Now, not only can I not forget I'm a gay woman, I'm also no longer able to appreciate cynicism because again, it hurts my mood. And I like being in a good mood. I only started watching TV again because it requires comparatively less effort than reading and since my expectations of TV are so low that I'm not as easily disappointed or hurt by issues relating to LGBT people/gender/race, bad characters, bad writing, historical inaccuracies, you name it.
Still, even given my really low expectations, it's getting harder and harder to watch TV without needing to make a conscious effort to pretend that what you just saw did not happen and force your mind to black out whatever comedy or sitcom just drove home that people like me deserve to die/be raped/be tortured/be in pain because that's funny.
Is there a trick to this that I'm missing? If you watch TV, I'd like to know what your methods are, and I'd also be really grateful for recommendations for funny series.
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My reason isn't particularly sophisticated - it's just that I don't see why I should pay up to €20 each month to watch crooning, cousin-impregnating ex-cons and their greasy producers verbally ejaculate their profanity, contempt for even faintly acceptable public behaviour and overall humongous imbecility all over a TV screen while the peasants rejoice.
My all-time TV favourites are, luckily, all on DVD - Star Trek TNG, Futurama, Invader Zim, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, The Simpsons - and I'm darned effin' sure I could have grown to love all the new Doctors Who if Pro Sieben hadn't decided they'd much rather show that jumped-up harpy from Bergisch-Gladbach sell anorexic little girls into slavery.
In short: man kann gar nich' so viel fressen, wie man beim Fernsehen gucken kotzen möchte.
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:D True that.
Well, I don't watch TV rather than individual series - still, when did TV get so damn annoying...? Maybe I ought to stick to the KiKa or something. And I guess I'll be annoyed even there (Bratz, oh my).