Early childhood: Eureka's Castle
Childhood: Are You Afraid of the Dark
(close second: Clarissa Explains it All)
Early in childhood, I really enjoyed watching Eureka's Castle. I'd like to see at least one episode again, because I honestly have no idea what it was like (except that I think it was puppets). It's like watching your favorite childhood movie over again and seeing how absolutely pathetic you were. I feel like I'd experience that with Eureka's Castle
But DEFINITELY not with Are You Afraid of the Dark. I think I spent a good portion of Sophomore and Junior year of college going over re-runs on megavideo or youtube. I loved that show and I still do. I feel that kids nowadays are missing that one show that scares the shit out of them, but not so badly that they stop watching. I remember being terrified of some of the episodes, but I always kept my eyes glued to the screen
I do know somebody that can no longer use blue toothpaste because of the comic book episodes with the Ghastly Grinner - when he smiled, blue goo leaked out from behind his teeth and he was a horrifying piece of work
But you know what the scariest part of that show was?
The opening credits
*shudder*
Such wonder and awesomeness
Now, if you'll excuse me, I must shut my window and blinds. The wind is blowing oddly and it's creeping me out
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I think I know where my interest in the Devil (and my need for him to be strangely attractive in one way or another [Al Pacino is SUCH a good example of that]) came from.
The Stand
Randall Flagg
Now, if you haven't seen the miniseries, you probably don't know what I mean. And even if you have, you still probably think I'm insane. But believe it or not, I thought the actor that played Flagg was one of the most compelling and oddly attractive men I'd ever seen
Granted, I was probably 10 when I thought this
Perhaps this was the start of my famous bad taste in men
Regardless, my brother and mother were obsessed with watching The Stand. I felt like their watching it was an annual event kind of thing. And I would always make sure I was elsewhere when the first half of the movie took place. Why, you ask? Because it all had to do with a deadly flu that swept across the entire world and wiped out a good 90% of the population
And I HATE HATE HATE anything have to do with bio warfare. Shoot me in the fucking head, but if you give me a disease...that's the worst
Just below it is natural disaster movies, but anything having to do with disease or spreading of something that will change and/or kill a good percentage of the world, I don't want to see it.
...I know. I know! That doesn't make much sense considering I enjoy some zombie content. But make me watch Quarantine or I Am Legend or the part of Cloverfield when the girl gets bit and then explodes, and we're going to have a real problem.
But, when all that's said and done, I would watch the rest of it with them, mainly to watch Randall Flagg
I really ought to read the book. I do enjoy Stephen King quite a lot, so maybe I should borrow it from my mom.
In other news, IT RAINED! And everything in the apartment is cooler and lovelier and generally happy.
I'm also sorry that this whole TV Meme thing has been a bit boring. For how much TV I actually watch, it's a bit ridiculous how little I branch out. I'll try harder from now on to not just mention Buffy, Bones and Friday Night Lights
I GET MY SWEATSHIRT TOMORROW! YAY!
That is all
take it easy. don't die. don't get raped
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