The Coffee Represents My Anguish.

[rionaleonhart]

Stolen from squeemu:

Comment to this post with an idea for a Top Five list (for example, Five Cars With Which Jeremy Clarkson Has Had Torrid Love Affairs, or Five Times Nida Saved the World and Nobody Noticed, or Five Cases Watson Decided, On Balance, Not To Publish). Then, in a separate post in reply to your comment, I will compile the requested list, according to me. Multiple requests are welcomed.

I've concluded that I don't love Torchwood. I enjoy watching it, but I don't love it, and if it didn't get another series I wouldn't shed a tear. Alas.

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[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

Five reasons I should watch House. If you really sell it to me I might actually find some way of getting round to it.

[rionaleonhart]

5. THERE IS SO MUCH HOMOEROTIC SUBTEXT. SO MUCH. And it also has fantastic heterosexual subtext, and all of the characters interact with each other in interesting ways. If you're anything like me, you'll end up in love with hundreds of conflicting pairings. (Er, is this a good recommendation?) But it very rarely makes anything overt; there are very, very few 'canonical' pairings, and even fewer requited ones, and those ones are still marvellously screwed-up. It's all so interesting, and it means that you never really feel that anything is 'getting in the way' of your preferred subtextual pairing (if that would bother you and if, indeed, you have a preferred subtextual pairing and are not madly in love with every pairing possible and then some).
4. It's often able to make you genuinely care about the one-off, one-episode-only characters. The couple in 'Fools for Love' are so lovely.
3. SEVERAL EPISODES MADE ME CRY. There are very few things that can portray emotional moments as well as it, in my opinion.
2. The characters are all fascinating because they have genuine, serious flaws. I mean, there's Chase, and he's selfish and insecure and cowardly and has questionable morals and can sometimes be a bit dim and my God does it make you love him anyway. I mean, 'Cursed'! And and and 'The Mistake'! And 'Autopsy', in which he does something that's incredibly stupid and I adore him for it, I love him to death. The main character is just a bundle of flaws, and Wilson seems nice and normal superficially but is actually irreperably screwed up, and Cameron has made 'being too nice' into an actual flaw because it's combined with the belief that she needs to fix everything and that she knows exactly how to do it, and also FOREMAN IS AWESOME AND CUDDY IS AWESOME AND EVERYONE IS AWESOME except for Chase, he's too dorky, but I adore him anyway.
1. Check your e-mail.

[strangeumbrella.livejournal.com]

But it very rarely makes anything overt; there are very, very few 'canonical' pairings
I like this. A programme's canon pairing almost always tends to be one I am really, truly not intersted in at all, and so I end up spending a lot of time going "No just go away from her/him! He/she/it/thing is boring! Look at your much more interesting/attractive co-stars!"

I actually will seek this out, based quite a lot on the sheer enthusiasm I can feel radiating at me off that comment. Anyway, you pretty much had me at "homoerotic subtext".