Trying to hold onto my sanity

[cornerofmadness]

and failing because I was looking at social media and the news and you'll forgive me for not saying more and NOT interacting with your own political posts if you have them because seriously I'm barely holding on.

Speaking of which, my blood sugar is still freaking the fuck out. I have no idea why. It was up for 350 after having salad for lunch and a piece of naan bread and then down to 100 tonight and only at 150 after eating something I shouldn't have.

And my back HURTS. This was way worse this time. And I did learn that the tight compression hose today had trigger my bad symptoms in that leg so that's a piece of the puzzle.

And that's all I want to say about that. So let's do the fannish 50. First there's this

Hazbin Hotel & Helluva Boss Hellaverse Explained: How The Shows Are Connected It's nice to see it's getting so big screen rants are doing bits on it


But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I was on the topic of old fandoms for the last few weeks. We've talked forever fandoms and first fandoms, how about the ones you're not sure you want to revisit or you did and you were left wondering what was wrong with younger you?

I can't include Star Trek in this because it is my forever fandom and I never stopped watching it. However, I haven't reread Lord of the Rings since high school. I thought I would when the movies come out (and what's that 20 years ago? HOW?) but I didn't because I was afraid I'd hate the books as an adult.

FETV and METV both do pretty much nothing but oldies so I've been able to revisit three shows that MADE young me's life in elementary school and middle school, four if I include MASH but much like Star Trek I never really stopped watching that.

Now obviously when we fall back into older fandoms, we know a) we're not 100% the same person we were then b) that some of it will be dated c) that some of the 'dated' is going include things we now consider problematic (misogynistic, homophobic etc even if they weren't thought that at the time. ) I don't necessarily want to talk about that. I want to talk more about how adult me feels about these shows child me loved.

Adam-12. Let's be honest, I saw this in reruns in the 70s and early 80s All I honest remember is I though Kent McCord was cute. That remains the same. He's cute and his character Jim Reed wasn't bad but his partner/mentor Pete Malloy turned out to be SUCH a drag. On the upside I got to see what we were afraid of in the late 60s early 70s (Nazis, Russians, immigrants and drugs, boy how times have changed....) It's terribly preachy. Police armed forced is seen as a plus and I wanted to slap Malloy into next week. I couldn't keep watching.

Emergency! This is a spin off of Adam-12 and I do remember more of this beyond Johnny Gage was hot. There is one episode I swore happened (Roy getting accidentally shot with a nail gun. I remember being traumatized by this but it must have been some other show). The datedness aside, I still enjoyed this or at least the first three years. After that it started getting cartoony and Johnny becomes a bit of an idiot for comedic effect (him and Chet) as if they forgot this isn't a sitcom.

Yeah it's very male but I don't hate on it for that because let's be honest, that was how it was in reality then. It even details how the paramedic got started (for us it's always been part of our lives but it's not that new of a system). The last season was more of a series of 2 hour movies set elsewhere with just Roy and Johnny and are boring AF. Skip that nonsense. I also learned this HAS to be where I got my hurt/comfort and whump kinks because man Johnny was made to be whumped.

Quincy M.E. I'm not going to lie. This show made me want to be a coroner. That WAS my original plan (didn't work that way and I'm still sad about it) I remembered it being more of a police procedural with Quincy working with the cops and I remember Sam was hot. What I got when I tried (notice the word tried) to rewatch it. First is the eyerolling opening sequence with Jack Klugman as a romeo on a ship. Yeah no. But holy hell this is the PREACHIEST show I've ever seen (hey anti-woke people go watch 70s tv and see that this isn't new). If there was a social justice/medical thing in need of being changed/public health issue they want to bring to people's attention it became a show's plot.

I couldn't watch it. I tried. I really tried. Robert Ito's Sam is still hot.

Comments

[aien_hime]

Sorry about the political situation. It’s super scary.

My old fandoms were power rangers and digimon. I loved both so much and made some digital friends there, but I don’t interact with either franchise anymore unless my kids will start to like them at some point.

[spikedluv]

I remember all of those shows from my younger days, though I can't recall just how much of them I watched. I'm bummed to hear that Malloy was a drag, in retrospect.

[falkner]

I watched so much Quincy growing up! It's one of those shows that would air on repeat one episode a day and then just restart. When it comes to medical-detective TV shows, I was a much bigger fan of Diagnosis: Murder, though. Which I wouldn't be surprised to discover was just as bad if I ever tried to watch it again.

[cornerofmadness]

Ha, FETV reruns Diagnosis Murder in the morning hours, it's on while I'm getting ready for work. It's not horrible but not as good I remember

I still rewatch Murder she Wrote almost daily at late night

[cornerofmadness]

he's rather joyless and moralistic. I don't remember ever liking him much but now he really annoys me

[cornerofmadness]

It is scary

I never really watched either of those. Some of my animated series are pretty cringey from my youth (Looking directly at you, Speedracer)

[a_natural_beauty]

I agree about social media lately. For like the last week - week in a half I log into my FB and just see so many posts about politics. And it's good to talk to these people and connect with them, but lately it's just overwhelming. So I'm trying to take breaks from all that and scrolling.
*hugs*

[cornerofmadness]

same here. I try to avoid doomscrolling as much as possible

[a_natural_beauty]

Yes, that's a perfect word for it!!

[fauxklore]

I can't remember the exact details, but one of the actors from Adam-12 came to talk to my 5th grade class. I am not sure why I'm so sure it was 5th grade when I can't remember which actor it was and what he talked about and how the whole thing came about.

[cornerofmadness]

I might have had a melt down if Ken McCord strolled into my 5th grade class for a talk. too bad you can't remember what it was about or who it was but that had to have been fun at the time

[fauxklore]

For a town with a population of under 5000 on a good day, we had a surprising number of big names come through. The one I remember best was that Ed Kranepool from the Mets did some fundraising thing at our synagogue. The one where I do remember the circumstances had to do with Dan Blocker who played Hoss on Bonanza. It was memorable because he arrived on the seaplane. I think he did some publicity event at the Bonanza Steakhouse. Most of the other famous people who came in were either politicos or mafiosi. Though my elementary school crossing guard's son pitched for the Kansas City Royals later on.

[cornerofmadness]

that really is a lot of celebs. cool

[duskpeterson]

The episode I remember from Emergency! is when the station got a female firefighter. I was astounded at such a notion.

[cornerofmadness]

I remember that one. So many younger women have no idea how recently it was that we were excluded from so many jobs

[duskpeterson]

And how recently the language changed! I was still bemused by "humankind" in the 1990s. Earlier, "chair" had me laughing in hysterics. Now the title sounds quite normal.

Um . . . like singular "they" was beginning to. I hope we don't see too many creeps back in the language.

[cornerofmadness]

i hear ya