Okay, I tried...

[gwendolyngrace]

I really did.

etakyma, don't laugh.

I tried to watch "High School Musical" tonight.

It was peer pressure.

Seems like half my flist loves HSM, and the other half tolerates it because someone in their lives loves HSM. Last week, y'all were positively RUNNING home to catch HSM2. So when Disney was showing the first one tonight, and there was fuck-all else on TV, I thought... Okay, I'll see what the fuss is about.

25 minutes. That's how much I could take. I'm on TNT now, with the endlessly geeky LotR:RotK on in the background. (And yes, I'm enough of a geek about *that* that I'm inwardly dissatisfied watching it on cable because it's not the Extended Cut.)

But...yeah. 25 minutes and I had to change channels. Maybe I can stand to watch a different 25 minutes on another occasion, but I just don't know if I can be arsed to do so anytime soon.

Sorry, everyone. I never was really good at doing what the kool kidz were doing. But then, that's what got me through school without ever trying drugs, either.

At least I can honestly say I don't have another fandom to obsess over. Go me!

Comments

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Hee. I've actually never seen it. I don't know a single thing about it - other than it's a Disney thing, and there are teenagers involved. One of these months I'll get around to asking my almost-step-sister what the big deal is. She's thirteen; she'll know. :P

[allysonsedai.livejournal.com]

If it helps, I had the same exact experience. :)

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

It's extremely "mm-bop"ish. I think one needs a much more active inner-thirteen-year-old to get it.

Unfortunately, I am often 6, 8, 12, and 75, but never 13 anymore.

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was... teenybopper? I kept flashing back to the days of Hanson.

And thankfully, I never listened to Hanson.

Eh. Whatever. I'm sure the few people on the flist who don't like SPN say similar things about it. (Well, not its teenybopperishness. But you know. About the not getting it.)

[zsof.livejournal.com]

My daughter Rowan (8) loves that show. I tolerated it for her the first time it was on. She was on her own for #2. Bleargh.

[psychic-serpent.livejournal.com]

My condolences. Fortunately, Rachel thinks the people she knows who are into HSM are insufferable. I don't expect to be forced to view this unless I'm kidnapped and the kidnappers get wind of this being the perfect way to torture me. ;)

[meggitymeg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't get the HSM fuss, either. I think I was forced to watch part of it by my sister, back when we lived together, but I'm not even sure. Something about evil silbling drama queens? And basketball? *shrug*

[folk.livejournal.com]

BUT ZAC EFRON IS SO PRETTY. SO. PRETTY. (Also, that "Get your head in the game" song is pretty catchy. The rest I can leave.)

[enelya-oronar.livejournal.com]

I have a seven year old daughter. She loves it. I tolerate it.

It is better than having to watch Barbie movies.

[narcissology.livejournal.com]

It really would be easier to break it up into neat half-hour segments, I think. I wish I'd thought of that. I forced myself to sit through it, but I painted my toenails while I watched so that I didn't have to focus... and add my name to the list of those who just don't get it. Perhaps I just don't have an inner-thirteen-year-old to channel...

[allysonsedai.livejournal.com]

people on the flist who don't like SPN say similar things about it.

Yes, but those people are stupid. ;)

(Kidding, kidding...)

[etakyma.livejournal.com]

Ha! I am laughing.

I fed my inner geek with Lord of the Rings last night, too. And I missed all the extended cut bits like the watching of the white tree come alive in Minas Tirith.

Probably because we yammered at each other through most of the second one the night before.

And yeah, HSM - I had to shut it off. I lasted maybe five-ten minutes when I tried, so you are mightier than I and outlasted me!

♥

[sorakirei.livejournal.com]

Hello there. My friend blackpaladin pointed me to your entry.

As one of those people who enjoys and occasionally gushes over HSM, I am fully aware that not everyone enjoys the flavor of cheese contained within. As you said at least you don't have another fandom to obsess over. :D