Ow my brain
Dec. 8th, 2009 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charliesmumI was perusing TV Tropes this afternoon, as you do, and for some reason looked up iCarly which, as I may have mentioned how this is one of Charlie's very favourite shows at the moment.
For the uninitiated, iCarly is a Nickelodeon show about a girl, Carly, and her two friends, Freddie (a boy) and Sam (a girl), who do a wildly popular webshow that features videos by (apparently) real kids and silly segments like Random Dancing and blowing up watermelons, and such.
It's a silly show - it has its moments, but generally falls into making all grown ups look stupid and people getting away with near criminal activity, or generally acting like complete buffoons with no consequences to their behaviour. Severely unrealistic to say the least.
But, as I said, Charlie likes it, and I make sure I discuss with him why some of the less savory bits are annoying to me, and how they don't work in real life.
Anyway...so I'm on Tropes, reading iCarly and WOW! The shipping things. And there's someone here on LJ who apparently devoted a really lot of time in proving that Sam is lesbian and she and Carly are OTP. It's just...well, I guess I forget that the interweb is populated by the very people to whom shows like iCarly are targeted, and they are apt to take that show just as seriously as older fans take, oh, let's say Doctor Who. *looks away, whistles innocently*
It's just weird to see from my point of view, because to me it is a mildly annoying show that my son likes, and the fact that people actually discuss Freddie/Sam or *shudder* Spencer/Carly. (Spencer is her idiot adult brother who is taking care of her while her father is 'overseas')
Actually, while we're on that subject, iCarly is yet another children's show that is sorely lacking in mothers. Carly's father is existing, if absent but no mention is ever made of her mother, who I presume is dead. Sam's mother is never seen and alluded to be a whoring, drinking layabout. Freddie's mom is a single, overprotective mom who had a GPS chip put into Freddie's head when he was an infant and give him tick baths.
Yeah.
And it isn't even a Disney show.
Is it sad that as I was reading the Tropes page, I pretty much knew every episode they were talking about?
For the uninitiated, iCarly is a Nickelodeon show about a girl, Carly, and her two friends, Freddie (a boy) and Sam (a girl), who do a wildly popular webshow that features videos by (apparently) real kids and silly segments like Random Dancing and blowing up watermelons, and such.
It's a silly show - it has its moments, but generally falls into making all grown ups look stupid and people getting away with near criminal activity, or generally acting like complete buffoons with no consequences to their behaviour. Severely unrealistic to say the least.
But, as I said, Charlie likes it, and I make sure I discuss with him why some of the less savory bits are annoying to me, and how they don't work in real life.
Anyway...so I'm on Tropes, reading iCarly and WOW! The shipping things. And there's someone here on LJ who apparently devoted a really lot of time in proving that Sam is lesbian and she and Carly are OTP. It's just...well, I guess I forget that the interweb is populated by the very people to whom shows like iCarly are targeted, and they are apt to take that show just as seriously as older fans take, oh, let's say Doctor Who. *looks away, whistles innocently*
It's just weird to see from my point of view, because to me it is a mildly annoying show that my son likes, and the fact that people actually discuss Freddie/Sam or *shudder* Spencer/Carly. (Spencer is her idiot adult brother who is taking care of her while her father is 'overseas')
Actually, while we're on that subject, iCarly is yet another children's show that is sorely lacking in mothers. Carly's father is existing, if absent but no mention is ever made of her mother, who I presume is dead. Sam's mother is never seen and alluded to be a whoring, drinking layabout. Freddie's mom is a single, overprotective mom who had a GPS chip put into Freddie's head when he was an infant and give him tick baths.
Yeah.
And it isn't even a Disney show.
Is it sad that as I was reading the Tropes page, I pretty much knew every episode they were talking about?