I Love Television

TV is a godly pursuit, in my eyes at least. Imagine a world without it! There'd be no Buffy or... OH GOD, NO BUFFY!!!

Where was I? Nowhere, really. Anyway, one thing I realised while writing my reviews was that it isn't particularly fun. No matter how much I tried, having to watch all my favourite shows with a notebook on my lap and a pen in my hand while fully aware that once the credits start I have to pull out my computer and get to typing, had a habit of draining everything that was enjoyable about a television experience. Thus, the only sensible thing to do is to give it up. As determined as I was to have reviews up for every episode of my top shows I just couldn't find the actual motivation, nor the justification. Seriously, I was not receiving a single cent for my work, and the progress on the look and feel of the site was agonisingly slow. There was intention to redesign the background and get a real thumbnail and all that stuff, but unfortunately the urge to open up photoshop faded away along with the urge to open up Microsoft Word.

Should money be the only reason? Fuck yes. Money and time, anyhow. Towards the end of my run it was only taking half-an-hour to an hour to write a whole review, but tie in the hour I spent actually viewing the programme and you have up to two hours wasted doing jack-all, per episode. Most days I was watching at least one show as well, so that's fourteen hours a week. That's a part time job, and I was not having an iota of pleasure in this occupation, neither were my pockets getting fuller. It was an almost obsessive process for me, and I needed to stop.

But don't fret, I am not really leaving the word of blogging, and Whatever Happened, Happened will remain online. I even plan to post new entries every now and again, it's just that I hereby remove all sense of rigidity and predictability, so don't expect any kind of specific themes or recurring formats from now on. Get what I'm saying? Of course I will still focus on TV, but I won't just be writing reviews. I might have curse-ladden rants about specific actors or entire genres, or I might share a recent anecdote about my viewing experiences. Hell, I might give a personal anecdote that has shit to do with television. Who knows, right? Do I look fucking psychic?

I do have a lot of reviews still sitting in the back log, and one day I might develop the urge to post them. For those who want to know what shows lie waiting in the shadows just know that I compulsively refused to write a review for an episode if I had not reviewed all the episodes before it. That means that when I started posting reviews for season four of The Vampire Diaries or season five of Fringe, I had thoroughly written about EVERY SINGLE FUCKING EPISODE IN THE THREE OR FOUR SEASONS PRIOR. If my mother ever took me to a psychologist when I was younger I would surely have been diagnosed with some social problem.

The Walking Dead, The Vampire Diaries, Fringe, Homeland and Boardwalk Empire. Those are the shows with extra reviews. If you have a favourite episode or maybe one you absolutely despised give me a-hoy and I will put up the relevant review. Simple enough? Any episode before the 2012 season should have something to put up.

And so, I leave behind the first arc in Whatever Happened, Happened, and progress to a new era in my blogging, or whatever the word is. From now on, I'm going to do WHATEVER THE FUCK I PLEASE, whenever I FUCKING PLEASE, with WHOMEVER I fucking please and HOWEVER I fucking PLEASE. YAY FOR CONFUSING caps locking.

Stay tuned for more!