Seddie and Bade.....Don't Ask...

Dear Stalkers,

I haven't posted in a while, but I've been CRAZY busy with school and drama club and homework and watching my tv shows and everything that I really haven't had time. Anyway, I figure I'm going to post about my admiration for children's television shows. The good ones anyway. I've grown up watching shows created and produced by Dan Schneider. He really is a television visionary. All That, The Amanda Show, Drake and Josh, Zoey 101....they were all shows that I watched until they ended, and loved. And they were all so uniquely different, too. I mean, you wouldn't really guess that they were made by the same guy. Now I watch iCarly and Victorious. And I know that's lame, because I'm in high school, and they're shows for like 7-12-year-olds, but I can't help it. They make me happy. And they do have some really comical lines for people my age or older. And they even have romantic storylines. Which is kinda where I'm going with this post.

How many children's television shows do you know that have romantic storylines? There really aren't many, and very rarely are both people main cast members. Usually it's the lead guy/girl chasing after another girl/guy, if that. And there's usually one person who is irritatingly in love with the main character without it going anywhere until maybe the final episode. (i.e. Danny Phantom, Zoey 101 (I know that was in my list of childhood favorites, but the romantic storylines thing is more pertaining to iCarly and Victorious so), Phineas and Ferb, SpongeBob, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, The Fairly Odd Parents, ect, ect) But on these shows there are legit couples, that are just sort of accepted.

Take Victorious, for example. Beck and Jade are just so obseenly cute. And they have all sorts of moments together in the show that have nothing to do with the episode. They are just a couple and cute and I love how that's put together. He's just her boyfriend. I mean, there are episodes where their being bf/gf has significant weight on the episode, but there are episodes where he'll just have his arm around her in a scene, or they are just randomly making out in the hallway, or he protects her when something bad happens (Locked Up), or he just casually kisses her for no real reason at all, or any number of things. And it's really cute. I mean, kudos to Mr. Schneider for having a couple like that. No serious drama there, just the two of them being the two of them, despite their differences.




My point ^



I love this scene, where Andre is singing.
The entire episode is about Andre, but they have this really cute Beck/Jade moment.
I'm not sure why, but I smile every time I see that scene. 

And take also iCarly, at least most of the episodes of this newest season . Sam and Freddie start dating, and the episodes are sort of them dealing with that. It's not exactly the same as my point about Victorious, but it still fits with my point, because as much as they make a big deal out of it, they really don't. Their relationship doesn't dramatically affect some greater picture, as with most shows. And with most shows, when two characters break up, it's dramatic or irritating, and it makes me laugh at myself. When Sam and Freddie broke up, their breakup was so effortless and anticlimactic that it made me sad, like, actually weird-feeling-in-my-stomch sad. I mean, what little kiddie show does that?




Effortless ^

This is just after they broke up. One last kiss.
I know this picture doesn't begin to show the five minute scene, but it's still a cute pic.

So there in lies my point. (Therin? Therein? I have no idea.) Relationships on TV are never effortless and they rarely make you feel something besides amused at yourself for almost feeling something. And the latter only happens on more "mature" television shows. (Meaning people under 13 should not be watching them.) So why is it that normal relationships happen on these two shows geared toward children who haven't even lost all their teeth much less dated someone? Is it because the creator is happily married? Is it to paint the picture of a normal relationship in the kids' minds early on to minimize drama when they get older? I have no idea, but I'm going to enjoy it before the writers decide otherwise.

Oh, and by the way, when I googled "Victorious beck and jade," this really adorably picture of Ian Harding came up, and I feel like it needs to be added. So here, dear stalkers, a gift for the road.

Until next time, xoxo,

~M~

Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

Hey stalkers! I miss writing to you. It's oddly cathardic. Today I want to talk about witches. I don't know why, but ever since I was little I'd had this obseen fascination with them. Well, actually, when I was little they terrified the crap out of me. Then my mom started watching Charmed at the dinner table. As I'm sure you can tell, seven or so years later I began to watch Charmed, from the beginning, on my laptop. I finished the series only three weeks ago. I miss it. I miss the characters and the stories and the demons....and sure I can watch it again, but it's just not the same as discovering it for the first time. Anyway, that's only one of the points I was planning on hitting in this post, so I have to move on from my beloved Halliwells.

I was thinking to myself at the beginning of last year that there were no good shows about witches. Now, this fall, The Secret Circle is coming to the CW. I have no idea if it's going to be good or not, but I'm watching it anyway. I've always figured that when I become an actress, I'll play a witch at least once. As it is I've been Gritch the Witch in Piggy Pie in third grade, Elphaba from Wicked for the talent show in fourth grade, the Wicked Witch of the West in fifth grade, and I went through that whole Wicked-obsessed phase that's apparently common (I've met two other people who went though the same phase) in sixth grade. Elementary school aside, I have not played a witch, no, but I really hope to, someday. (Now I really just have to focus on my divorce, remarriage, and pregnancy in this year's fall play, Steel Magnolias.)

I'd like to meet a witch. I don't really mean like the waving wands kind, because those aren't real, but I'd like to meet a Wiccan. It's a real religion. (To be fair, so is Jedi, it's very popular in Australia.) I'm dead serious. I'd like to be friends with one. I think it'd be cool to talk to them about it. I'm a Christian, have been all my life, so this isn't some creepy anti-God thing, I just wanted to put that out there.

I got on this topic in my head because I opened a book that I thought would be about witches. I was going to read it, obviously, until I discovered that it had nothing to do with witches at all. Which means that I'm stuck waiting for "that next book in that series that I like" to come out. I wish I were a brilliant writer, so that I could write my own fantastical story about witches, and live in it. (I'm pretty much just stuck waiting to register for Pottermore - talk about desperate.)

Anyway, I know this whole post was poorly written, with no transitional sentences, filled with run-ons and overused parenthesis, and so many other grammatical errors, but I just wanted to voice my opinions. Here are three pictures: one of Charmed, one of The Secret Circle, and one of Wiccan symbols, a triple moon. After researching a little bit, I discovered that it symbolized all three parts of female power becoming one. As a feminist, I think that's really cool. Plus it's also really pretty, don't you think?




I'm pretty sure that this is the big, final battle in the penultimate episode of Charmed



The Secret Circle



The Triple Moon

So I know this post was a little weird, but I had fun writing it. Until next time, my dearest stalkers!

Lots of Love,
~M~

P.S. While I remember to mention it, this new show called The Ringer is totally ripping off The Lying Game, even more the novels than the TV show.