#offspring tv

[bitchinlyras]

aussie friends offspring is finally on stan and i think we should all (re)watch it so i can have some new content on tumblr please :))

[willowwithin]

Anyone that is totally confused to get a follow from me I used to go by Proudman-Reid and Cassianovas on here before I deleted my blog last year.

Decided to come back on a whim, still setting things up.

I’ll mainly post and reblog:

Art stuff, Rogue One/Star Wars, Offspring (the show), Animal Crossing, The Owl House, Twin Peaks and other random shows I might become interested in.

I did remake the Cassianovas side blog for when Andor comes out, don’t expect the same level of posting from that though. I still adore Diego, just not on the same level as 2017 Kait did.

[xenophanatic]

The recent discovery of the long forgotten unappealing nature of western television

So, during these summer holidays (in Australia) i have been bingeing a lot of television. However, with the compilation of dis-interesting content - not enough romance angst - and a demand for undivided attention of reading subtitles, I decided to give foreign dramas a rest and look for English language dramas. Just something I don’t have to keep my eyes glued to the screen. And after viewing two series without finishing them - an Canadian and an Australian series - I remembered why I digressed from English-speaking dramas to foreign television ten years ago. 

It sucks at OTP. 

I was watching Being Erica, and I was viewing it to watch season two with an introduction of a ship that i could get behind - Kai and Erica. However, season 1 focuses on Erica and her best friend Ethan who she realises is the person she has always loved. So, i enter this series knowing these two aren’t the OTP, but none the less i get invested. The scenes where Erica realises there’s no one else but Ethan are constructed for the audience to get invested and I did. But then, realising they will break up over trivial matters in order for Erica to start being with Kai, just makes me feel betrayed by the show. Even though I have not seen season two or Kai, who I am assuming will be ten times better in delivering a love story, I know that Kai and Erica don’t end up together either - i read spoilers. So why should I get invested into another relationship, when it’s going to mean nothing in the next season(s). So I stopped after season 1.

Then I went to an Australian show I saw when I was younger, but didn’t follow because of university studying - Offspring. I didn’t care for much with the season 1 ship of Chris and Nina - I had seen season two with the introduction of Patrick. Anyway, so I’m watching season two and loving it, but remember that Patrick dies at some point in the series - leaving Nina alone with their newly born baby. So.... i looked up what happens later on and she ends up with a guy named Harry and the show ends with her having her second child with Harry. Again, what was the point!!!!

I understand, in real-life people come and go, and though you think a person is the life of your life, they may not be. But television is my escape from that reality into a world where there is a couple that i should root for to get together and end up happy. I know there are writers who are creating these stories and are like... “Hmmmm... they ended up together. We finished the ‘will they, won’t they’ angst. What next” “How about we create unnecessary conflict?” “Great idea! Who needs a show representing a strong couple working together through life!” “I know, right! Now pass me that joint.”

But really, the main reason for this fleeting OTPs and Ships are because of the structure of these shows. Unlike Korean, Pakistani, or Japanese shows were they are variables like limited episodes, stories have been written and filmed before broadcast, actors under contract until the end of the series - other shows, such as Turkish and American (other westerns countries like Canada, UK, Australia) are often confronted by the dilemmas of actors and real life issues. 

Certain actors may not like one another and therefore refuse to do scenes with one another (In the 90s Charmed, main actress was killed off because of dispute on the series), actors get together - thereby characters getting together on screen - but then break up - thereby characters breaking up in the series (Brooke and Lucas from One Tree Hill), actors wanting to leave the show to pursuit other opportunities - sometime they come back (Shameless had Mickey and Ian constantly separated making their epic journey seem arbitrary) and sometimes they don’t, and sometimes you just get season 4 of Veronica Mars (lest we forget). I understand that these actors are people too and have the right to leave a show that they may not find professionally satisfying - that is understandable. I’m hating the game (the television system and production), not the players (actors, writers etc). 

There’s no resolution I can give that will solve this - I’m not that important. Does anyone have recommendation for a drama that has angst but the couple end up together?

A shout out to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - even if it wasn’t the same actor *cry*, at least the character/relationship got an arch.

[willowwithin]

skipping to Offspring s2, because yep turns out I can't stand s1.

[willowwithin]

okay I can't wait till season 2, the Chris drama is annoying.

[willowwithin]

Offspring rewatch time

[bitchinlyras]

the way patrick has got me clicking my heels and giggling everytime he’s on screen during my offspring rewatch as if im still 13…

[willowwithin]

Sometimes when I think about Patrick's death in Offspring I get sad.

Other times I remember that people called the police and confused the heck out of the band The Offspring that they had to tweet about it and I just laugh.

Because the second thing is genuinely the most true to the show thing ever.