Felicity: Stalker

[dangermousie]

I decided to give Felicity a try, and am watching the Pilot. Let me get this right. She throws away her set college plans and goes to NYU at the last minute because a guy she doesn't know but had a crush on in high school wrote something nice in her yearbook????? Does insanity run in her family? WHAT? I picked my school after college in part because my future husband was going to be in that town, but a. it was one of the ones I applied to and was seriously considering, as opposed to accepting another school and changing my mind at the last moment and b. more importantly, we were already dating at that point!

(Not to mention it should have been John Donne level to make her go this crazy, as opposed to a nice and sweet but hardly earthshaking 'I wish I knew you' type of stuff).

Way to make your decision, crazy one! Follow that boy you hardly know to a school you never planned to go to, all the way across the continent. After all, men are the end goal of your life? The only one, too.

God. Tell me it gets better. Because right now I just want to smack her. Also, woe is me. Ben is NOT HOT. He'd have to look like Jensen Ackles to make her lose her mind to such a degree. Maybe he'll grow on me.

Please tell me it's going to get better!

ETA: OK, she is rebelling and trying to get away from her over-controlling Dad. Still...Come on, girl! If I were a man, I'd tell you not to think too much with what's between your legs.

ETA 2: Awwwww. And she went to NYU but Ben already has a girlfriend (if he forgot her name, why on earth did he write that stuff in her yearbook? That either makes him amnesiac or uber-sleazy. Weird). And now she has to face it that she made this decision and it could have been a waste. OK, show, you are redeeming yourself.

ETA 3: Awwww. Kerri Russell is so cute she is like a human version of a floppy dog toy. You just want to hug her. When she gets all upset, I just wat to make it all better.

ETA 4: Fine. Ben is kinda attractive in a sleazy way. If you take your glasses off and squint. Still. Couldn't they get Jason Behr? Or Jensen Ackles? Or someone...you know...gorgeous?

ETA 5: She photocopied his admissions essay? I am back to my original thought: crazy stalker. Ugh. Get some meds.

ETA 6: OK. Yes, she is officially insane. Ben should get a restraining order. Now I am relieved that people I wrote nice stuff in their yearbooks to didn't follow me home. Poor Felicity. Maybe she should just write Ben letters in her blood? That would totally help.

ETA 7: Is it wrong that when Ben says "maybe we could go on the roof" (to talk) I keep hoping he'd pull a Baazigar and try to push her off?

Comments

[jonaki.livejournal.com]

Haha, it gets SO much worse. This is just a preview of the madness.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You are kidding! And to add insult to injury, Ben is so sleazy and insensitive and the whole thing is driving me up the wall.

I'll give it a couple of eps and if it doesn't improve then I am done. I think I want to bash the heads of all the leads against the wall. One Tree Hill might be trash (way trashier than this) but at least it makes no bones about it and has the soapy fun to recommend it.

This might be the one show on which thelana and I are in complete agreement!

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeee!

*jumps up and down*

I'm so glad that you don't find him hot either.

Plus, Felicity, while fluffy cute (though she cut her hair like wicked short in later seasons), she just isn't SRK enough to make "I stalk you because I love you" seem attractive ;D

Wheeee, first review of Krrrish at indiafm. Taran of course loves it, but he will recommend anything he thinks might make some money.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. Felicity's acting talents are on the skimpy side. She is also dumber than a 1980s Bollywood heroine.

Re: Krrish. It sounds like trashy fun. No surprise there :)

Ben is very attractive. If you are drunk and desperate and the bar is dark.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

So far the reviews seem to say that most people think that Krrish is a decent entertainer. I'm curious if that is more the Hindi opinion of if it will be shared by us outsiders as well. But so far I have heard no reports of really embarassing fuckups and special effects and the like, so that leaves me hopeful (gotta have my Priyanka kick).

[crumpeteer.livejournal.com]

Girl is a nutcase. Ben isn't that attractive (I agree, Jensen level hotness, sure, I'll buy that, but not Ben). And if he can't remember her, she obviously didn't mean all that much to him. Let it go, woman, let it go!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Let it go, woman, let it go!

She would, but she is off her meds!

Seriously, she is insane. katranna and I agreed that Ben just wrote stuff you write in a yearbook of someone nice that you don't know. If I were him, I'd get pepper spray!

[greycoupon.livejournal.com]

You hit on the reason I could never watch this show. Felicity is just cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!crazy.

Seriously. When the show first came out I heard it referred to as "Ally McBeal Goes to College". At least in Ally's case she was following her boyfriend. Ya know, the guy actually knew her name.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Felicity is just cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs!crazy

Oh yes. I just can't understand why Ben doesn't run away screaming. This is about a step away from the old Bollywood cliche of 'I'll prove my love by offing self' 'Wow. That's deep. I love you.' But there it's part of the unreal cheese.

I watched the pilot and could barely finish. I think I'll skip this one.

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of the big flaws in "Felicity" was that I hated Felicity. And Ben. No surprise I didn't last with the show, is there?

J.J. Abrams isn't one for the sense-making. Plus, his female leads, you just end up wanting to smack upside the head.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

OMG. I have never seen a more appropiate icon!

The whole point of the show is that I am supposed to find the leads cute and endearing and root for them, right? So I think this failed spectacularly since all I want to do is bash them all in the head with a brick.

[sourisvho.livejournal.com]

That icon is a little bit TOO useful!

The supporting characters were the best thing about "Felicity," IMO. It sure wasn't Felicity and Ben.

[aliterati.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Um. Agree with the bit about Felicity being crazy. (How'd a girl that flighty get into Stanford anyhow?)

However, must say I violently disagree with the insinuations that the "problem" with the show is that Ben isn't cute enough, or that it would all somehow make more sense or be more "okay" if he were as handsome as some other actors. (I actually think Scott Speedman is totally fine looking, but whatever--my memory of him is based on a much later movie he made.) See, if a girl actually changed life plans to follow a guy just because he was oh-my-god-gorgeous, I'd say she was astoundingly shallow and had to get her head checked. Here, she might still want to get her head checked, but at least she can make some claims to following Ben out of an instinctive draw, or because she somehow saw him as a well of unrealized potential. His "cuteness" doesn't really bear on anything; it's just what he is and represents, as the guy she always secretly liked but never had the guts to pursue.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

But see, if he was uber-hot, I could see her hormones overwhelming her brain.

The thing is, she doesn't know him. She's never even spoken to him. All she has to go by is his exterior, really. So if the exterior was good-looking, or hell, even charismatic, that would still be stupid, but at least make sense in a bizarro world kind of way.

[aliterati.livejournal.com]

See, my perspective is that her action is so senseless that trying to actually provide a satisfying logical reason for it--and having that reason be "because he's cute"--would just be silly. I think it's exactly in being non-perfect that Ben might make sense as what he ought to be: just a normal guy to whom (acting outside of rationality) Felicity happens to develop an emotional attachment.

Also, hate to disagree with others' comments again, but please, please, please, PLEASE don't watch Gilmore Girls. At least for my school pride. (But I can also provide other reasons, if you like.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

See, but if Ben was uber hot, her decision would be something a moron would make as opposed to a decision NO ONE would make. Plus (more importantly) it would give my suffering eyes something to enjoy (he'd have to be an Adonis though, to compensate).

[catdecember.livejournal.com]

aaah i liked felicity. well i liked hating her when she got all crazy and weird.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Heee. I can see hating her but it's no fun for me to watch the show if I do :)

[eccequambonum.livejournal.com]

ha! i warned you! annoying as all get out, and hello, stupidist (or craziest) female on earth. and Not Hot guy. actually, kind of skanky guy who comes across as a slacker. mmmm, appealing!

somehow a show based around the premise of "i'm going to stalk him!" can only sink deeper into the Pit of Stupid.

trade it in for Gilmore Girls. ::grin, duck, roll::

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

kind of skanky guy who comes across as a slacker

Heeee. Definitely. OK, Ethan Hawke as intellectual slacker in Reality Bites? Hot. Ben Whatsisname as sleazoid slacker? Not hot.

And why Ben doesn't run screaming for the hills when he sees Felicity is still a point unknown.

[eccequambonum.livejournal.com]

And why Ben doesn't run screaming for the hills when he sees Felicity is still a point unknown.


he's bit slow on the uptake. he just kind of stands there and goes "duuuuh" alot in the show. ;)

yeah, ethan hawke just needed a showwer and a couple smacks. but at least he had wit. and intellect. you can work on getting rid of the annoying bits of attitude over time.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that when Ben says "maybe we could go on the roof" (to talk) I keep hoping he'd pull a Baazigar and try to push her off?

HAHAHAHAHA!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

"I love you Shilpa...errrr Felicity. Now dieeeeee as I go off dancing with Kajol in Swiss meadows"

[muffinkath7.livejournal.com]

It gets better. I guarantee. Just wait for Noel...and the end of the season is sheer brilliance. The thing about this show is that they all seem crazy at first, but it all becomes clear later on. Ben becomes more attractive the more you know him. You finally get into his head later on.

The brilliance in this show is that it's the only show I've ever watched where the triangle actually works. You legitimately want her with the other guy whenever she's with one of them. It's amazing.

[muffinkath7.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmmmm...I didn't read the comments from everyone else. Apparently no one agrees with me. Well, I liked it when I watched it originally, and I enjoy it still on DVD. Apparently I'm the odd one out in this group.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know other people on my flist liked this. I am going to give it another try.

[cosmicviolet.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I agree Felicity is a nut for following a stranger across the country, but I think she later realizes this and it becomes more of a journey of finding herself. I never minded Felicity (although sometimes I wished she would stand up for herself more), but Julie is annoying. She's whiny and manipulative. I also think Ben is cute-he has this dimpled grin that is adorable. And he's a woobie. He's not Jensen cute (who could be?), but I wouldn't kick him out of bed. :P Anyway, if you're finding it hard now, you could skip ahead to late season 2-early season 3 when Felicity and Ben are at their best. It does get better.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I really am going to give it another chance. The thing with Ben, he comes across as smarmy to me...