OK as i’m coming to the end of my shadowhunters-kinda-binge here are my Real Thoughts:
shadowhunters is a bunch of good-looking people with tats running around on stupid missions. no, i really mean Stupid. this entire television series is trapped in the Dumbojet with no way out. and believe me, the flight takes forever to land. the entire big baddie storyline for seasons 1 and 2 is Valentine trying to collect items in order to raise an angel to like, come kill em all. boo, scary!
then he does raise the angel, at last, after 120 long and ardeous episodes, during which i finish five sewing projects and clean the house. and the angel is like LOL NO THX. and that’s it.
?????????? LMAO. what a great culmination to the storyline. not to mention the incest-or-no-incest love-triangle mess which, just, um, No.
i mean, i get it. the show is trashy and stupid, but it has good-looking people. it’s not all-white. it has several central female characters. it has an LGBT couple that sometimes do stand close to each other (though in this episode i’m watching from season 3, they are once again having conversations from the opposite ends of the room LMFAO none of the hetero couples shout at each other from opposite ends of the room but OK)
the feeling i can’t shake though, as i think about the next sewing project i’m gonna do while looking in the general direction of the show, is that i’m watching bad fanfiction. bad fanfiction that anyone would Nope out of after the third epithet followed by four adjectives in a row. bad fanfiction, which has been scripted, cast, filmed, post-produced, and aired. so to sum up my feelings: LOL.
