Oh, Sweet, Sweet Insanity...
May. 18th, 2005 04:29 pmRemember me mentioning babydoll's letter to Carol Mendelsohn in my pervious LJ entry?
She DID send me it, to my great surprise - and then she cut short my debate about whether or not to share by making it public herself. She posted it to YTDAW, you can find it here. It's 12 pages. It's like Christmas come early. It's like a personal giftwrapped amusement-package to me from the Universe. Thank you, Universe.
You don't even need to know CSI to enjoy this, my friends.
Some excerpts:
To all CSI fans I’m best known as babydoll, and I wouldn’t be in the slightest bit surprised if you’ve already heard of me. (...)
“I can’t see Catherine kissing just anyone, it has to be the right guy.” Well when I read this quote I laughed! Please! Over the years Cath has kissed many different guys, none of which appear to be the “right guy” and still you’re getting it wrong! You can’t honestly believe that Warrick of all people is the “right guy” for Miss Catherine Willows? Now I’m not saying that Warrick’s not a great guy and a cool character, not at all! I’m just saying he’s nowhere near the top of my list of people I would out my idol with on the show! Near the bottom in fact! (...)
It was so forced that you made it funny! It made me realise how wrong the pair really were for each other, if you have to force the chemistry that hard to make it work! When their faces were centimetres away, all I could think was how much more sense it would make had Nick been there instead. Because with them, I think the chemistry just flows! “But then watching that moment when they fell into each other’s arms, - oh, my God! I couldn’t believe it!” OK I was actually literally rolling on the floor when I read this one for the first time! I couldn’t believe how stupid that sounded! I couldn’t actually stop laughing because you couldn’t be more wrong!(...)
Down the Drain, some forced desperate attempt to put SOMETHING there, and I guess in Too Tough to Die there’s a slight amount of flirting, and in A Little Murder there’s contact, but not sexual at all! So what the hell was all the rest?! FRIENDSHIP DAMNIT! FRIENDSHIP! If you can’t see that then you must be blind from head to toe! I mean for crying out loud! In every single occasion, it’s one of them, looking out for the other! What does that tell you? I mean if you got a steamy relationship from THAT then there must be something wrong with you! You get friends from people looking out for each other, good friends, very good friends in fact! Sometimes even siblings. And for siblings to get together would just be plain gross! (I really couldn’t think of a more sophisticated way of putting that!) But it’s wrong! Call me old-fashioned, but I’m a Christian and I have my own standards, when I see a gay couple kiss, I cringe, I feel really wrong all over, it’s the same at the thought of brother and sister kissing, and it’s that feeling I get at the thought of Cath and Warrick getting intimate! You can’t honestly believe that these people are a match-made in heaven! No way! That’s wrong... it’s horrible… it’s flaming disgusting! I really can’t believe you’re actually considering going ahead with it! As a matter of honesty! It’s… it’s an abomination for starters! I’m telling you as the most loyal of all fans…. Die-hard fan as you seem to want to call me… don’t ruin the most loved crime show of all time by getting 2 people together, that no-one wants to be together!(...)
OK just to sum up. I was gonna make this longer, but all the fans seemed to have summed it up pretty well for me! Scrap the Cath/Warrick thing, at least for this season, which I know you have done, coz I know all about Grave Danger, and how it’s all Grissom this Nick that! Which I love Nick, and I’ve seen the roughcuts, and extended footage, and I’m overwhelmed. You’ve done a fantastic job and us fans could not ask for a better finale in our lives! We really couldn’t, and I want to thank the CSI crew on behalf of all of us fans for doing such a fantastic Tarantino production and everything! Also… scrap Miami and New York, the ratings have dropped considerably since they came out, and no-one I know likes them. They really arte both very crap spin-off which no dedicated fan would even attempt to watch, because the original, was, is and will always be the best by far! Remember the good ol’ days, when the CSIs were a team, 1 big relatively happy family, with only a few cares in the world, Grissom’s team, and they always will be, promote my fave character or not, they’re all Grissom’s night shift team!(...)
Read. Boggle. Marvel. Truly, there are no words to do it true justice. There are only exclamation marks.
And of course the C/W smut I intend to write just for her.
She DID send me it, to my great surprise - and then she cut short my debate about whether or not to share by making it public herself. She posted it to YTDAW, you can find it here. It's 12 pages. It's like Christmas come early. It's like a personal giftwrapped amusement-package to me from the Universe. Thank you, Universe.
You don't even need to know CSI to enjoy this, my friends.
Some excerpts:
To all CSI fans I’m best known as babydoll, and I wouldn’t be in the slightest bit surprised if you’ve already heard of me. (...)
“I can’t see Catherine kissing just anyone, it has to be the right guy.” Well when I read this quote I laughed! Please! Over the years Cath has kissed many different guys, none of which appear to be the “right guy” and still you’re getting it wrong! You can’t honestly believe that Warrick of all people is the “right guy” for Miss Catherine Willows? Now I’m not saying that Warrick’s not a great guy and a cool character, not at all! I’m just saying he’s nowhere near the top of my list of people I would out my idol with on the show! Near the bottom in fact! (...)
It was so forced that you made it funny! It made me realise how wrong the pair really were for each other, if you have to force the chemistry that hard to make it work! When their faces were centimetres away, all I could think was how much more sense it would make had Nick been there instead. Because with them, I think the chemistry just flows! “But then watching that moment when they fell into each other’s arms, - oh, my God! I couldn’t believe it!” OK I was actually literally rolling on the floor when I read this one for the first time! I couldn’t believe how stupid that sounded! I couldn’t actually stop laughing because you couldn’t be more wrong!(...)
Down the Drain, some forced desperate attempt to put SOMETHING there, and I guess in Too Tough to Die there’s a slight amount of flirting, and in A Little Murder there’s contact, but not sexual at all! So what the hell was all the rest?! FRIENDSHIP DAMNIT! FRIENDSHIP! If you can’t see that then you must be blind from head to toe! I mean for crying out loud! In every single occasion, it’s one of them, looking out for the other! What does that tell you? I mean if you got a steamy relationship from THAT then there must be something wrong with you! You get friends from people looking out for each other, good friends, very good friends in fact! Sometimes even siblings. And for siblings to get together would just be plain gross! (I really couldn’t think of a more sophisticated way of putting that!) But it’s wrong! Call me old-fashioned, but I’m a Christian and I have my own standards, when I see a gay couple kiss, I cringe, I feel really wrong all over, it’s the same at the thought of brother and sister kissing, and it’s that feeling I get at the thought of Cath and Warrick getting intimate! You can’t honestly believe that these people are a match-made in heaven! No way! That’s wrong... it’s horrible… it’s flaming disgusting! I really can’t believe you’re actually considering going ahead with it! As a matter of honesty! It’s… it’s an abomination for starters! I’m telling you as the most loyal of all fans…. Die-hard fan as you seem to want to call me… don’t ruin the most loved crime show of all time by getting 2 people together, that no-one wants to be together!(...)
OK just to sum up. I was gonna make this longer, but all the fans seemed to have summed it up pretty well for me! Scrap the Cath/Warrick thing, at least for this season, which I know you have done, coz I know all about Grave Danger, and how it’s all Grissom this Nick that! Which I love Nick, and I’ve seen the roughcuts, and extended footage, and I’m overwhelmed. You’ve done a fantastic job and us fans could not ask for a better finale in our lives! We really couldn’t, and I want to thank the CSI crew on behalf of all of us fans for doing such a fantastic Tarantino production and everything! Also… scrap Miami and New York, the ratings have dropped considerably since they came out, and no-one I know likes them. They really arte both very crap spin-off which no dedicated fan would even attempt to watch, because the original, was, is and will always be the best by far! Remember the good ol’ days, when the CSIs were a team, 1 big relatively happy family, with only a few cares in the world, Grissom’s team, and they always will be, promote my fave character or not, they’re all Grissom’s night shift team!(...)
Read. Boggle. Marvel. Truly, there are no words to do it true justice. There are only exclamation marks.
And of course the C/W smut I intend to write just for her.
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Date: 2005-05-18 07:44 am (UTC)You love me for it, darling.
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Date: 2005-05-18 07:45 am (UTC)I so love all that "Scrap this and that cause no one cares". She really is the center of the Universe isn't she? *shock is gone so I'm now ROFL* And that conclussion she arrived to... that C/W is wrong cause she's a Christian and C/W is like gay people kissing cause they're like siblings... *speechless*
Thank you, thank you, thank you! for spreading the letter. Just the kind of fun I needed!
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:00 am (UTC)She quotes five friends and claims the world has spoken! Can you imagine her in UN? OMGoodness.
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Date: 2005-05-18 07:50 am (UTC)And the audacity with which she speaks! I'm a 14-year-old Christian fan of CSI and I know more than you... Petulant would be one way to describe her.
Oh, and I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots and Ladders and have just finished the exclamation part. Ha!
Oy, the brain hurts. But obviously not enough, because I want to read the whole letter. Could you e it to me at ms_anais at yahoo dot com? I could go to the forum, but if it's that long, I'll be there all day. Bitte? Grazie!
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Date: 2005-05-18 07:51 am (UTC)But man, that is one hell of a weird letter.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:19 am (UTC)Now, I'm no Christian, but can someone explain to me what slash has to do with incest? I can understand not liking either because of one's values systems, and I can understand the reasoning for frowning upon incest from a biological standpoint, but they've got shit-diddly to do with one another, so why bring slash up? Furthermore, although they may act as if they are related, they aren't, so why bring incest up?
And the obvious but unsupported Nick/Catherine shipping is just worth a further "bwuh?"
In conclusion, I see no reason within her article to support or stop either C/W or C/N, so, LET THE THREESOME BEGIN!
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:38 am (UTC)She's brought up the Christian-gay wrong-incest wrong-Cath&War wrong link before. I've stared at it for hours, trying to see the logic. I think I lost braincells in the process. Maybe that'll give me my logic...
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:27 am (UTC)12 pages!? Woah. Someone has a lot of time on their hands I see. :P
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:42 am (UTC)And as for me, I'm anti-Cath/Warrick simply because I think that in the context of this show an office romance would screw up the cast chemistry. I really don't care about what any of them do outside of work, at least not enough for it to be a major plot point. I like Grissom referring to his roach-racing, that sort of thing, but I prefer not to see more than that. I watch the show because I enjoy the science, which has been watered down way too much lately. Office romance would give them another excuse to cut back on good plots and science in favor of cheesy melodrama.
Besides, they seriously wasted Nick Lea. They shoulda let him and Catherine stay together. Think of the crossover potential when she found out she was dating an assassin/spy/fugitive/Russian agent :-)
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:50 am (UTC)People will like what they like, but how they show their tastes, that I feel free to point and mock when stupid.
Eh, Nick Lea never did much for me, on CSI or X-Files.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:43 am (UTC)Except not. No that's just small minded and stupid and bigoted of her.
The stupid burns...it burrrrrrns.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:51 am (UTC)It burns into the next world, it does.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:44 am (UTC)"If you can’t see that then you must be blind from head to toe!... I mean if you got a steamy relationship from THAT then there must be something wrong with you!
Insult the woman, that'll help o_O
Though I really shouldn't be surprised, this is coming from the same girl who's YTDAW profile says she's from "Britian."
I need a WTF? icon.
(and just as a side note, I wan't aware that it was possible to be blind in your toes :P)
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:53 am (UTC)I left my WTF icon somewhere. Arg.
Apparenly, babydoll's toes do amazing things.
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Date: 2005-05-18 08:46 am (UTC)Just one question: what planet does she come from?
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Date: 2005-05-18 09:14 am (UTC)What is that icon?
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Date: 2005-05-18 09:14 am (UTC)Bloody shit, and I've always thought only Ringers were that insane...
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Date: 2005-05-18 09:29 am (UTC)Insanity comes in all fandoms, it seems.
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Date: 2005-05-18 09:33 am (UTC)I don't quite know what to make of this. The excessive use of exclamation points, net speak, the fact that she can't seem to be able to spell out Catherine's whole name. Personally, if I were writing a letter to a television executive, I would try to write a letter that sounded professional and logical, and not like something I threw together while I was IMing. And what precisely are her credentials that give her the right to speak for everybody? I certainly didn't give her my vote.
I am saving this letter for my friends to read later so that they can have a laugh. They loved the C/N, or more precisely, M/G site you linked to.
Must go now and hope my mind stops boggling before I have to be at work.
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Date: 2005-05-18 09:49 am (UTC)Not to mention maybe not *insulting* the person you've writing to.
Yeah, that site is almost more mindboggling than this one. Fandom has much gold, if only one does a little digging.
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Date: 2005-05-18 10:01 am (UTC)Spank us all to submission!
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Date: 2005-05-18 12:31 pm (UTC)I really have nothing contructive to say except to give a big ol' WTF mixed with a whole lot of mildly hysterical laughter. Wow. Just wow.
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Date: 2005-05-18 07:46 pm (UTC)And I can remember him saying that line.
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Date: 2005-05-18 01:51 pm (UTC)And I thought I was CSI-obsessed...
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Date: 2005-05-18 11:19 pm (UTC)I think we'll have to find a new word beyond obsessed for her. Good grief.
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Date: 2005-05-18 02:41 pm (UTC)This little piece of fanwank has made my life.
Oh wow.
And she's laminating it so CM "won't be able to throw it away". If I was Carol, I'd tape this to the walls of the writing room and show it to Billy Petersen every time he got bored of playing Grissom. Because why would anyone want to quit their job if they got to read this gem every day and laugh at it?
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Date: 2005-05-18 11:22 pm (UTC)Truly, whenever I now feel down, I just read to reread this letter and I'll be laughing deeply on the inside for the rest of the day. Insanity! Exclamations! Gay bashing! Weird incest claims! Insults!
It's epic, it is.
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Date: 2005-05-18 03:44 pm (UTC)I haven't even watched a single episode of CSI and my mind is already boggling.
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Date: 2005-05-18 05:49 pm (UTC)Thank you for that, truly. That was the most entertaining thing I've read in a long time.
She's a Christian, and she cringes at gay people... I didn't know that these two statements should have a comma between them! EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO AND DIE!
...OF LAUGHTER!
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Date: 2005-05-18 11:27 pm (UTC)"Here lay Meeta, died from babydoll on the Intenert May 2005. We laugh with her still."
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Date: 2005-05-18 10:10 pm (UTC)*points up to the icon*
Had a really good laugh at this. Is she the girl that had argued with you about the C/N and C/W issue? Poor Carol. What did she do to deserve this?
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Date: 2005-05-18 11:29 pm (UTC)I guess Carol's crime was bringing in the C/W, which we all know is like incest and wrong. Or something.