Hah; I'm debating the relative merits of just spoiling myself for S6, because I don't seem to be making any progress on actually watching it. And S5 managed to dance on enough of my fiction antikink buttons that I just... don't feel like I'm connecting with the show as deeply as I used to. But whatever. There's still that little cocoon of plot where I can give Peter a dragon or make Peter be a dragon or crash an asteroid into the planet, and that's good enough for me.

And yesss. I mean, I can go on rants about the show, but for the most part, it doesn't make me feel bad. And I love the characters. And I sometimes have issues with the Doylist stuff going on, but... there are other shows where it's all OH, SEXY GRUNGE DEATH or WE CAPTURE THE REALITY OF THE HUMAN CONDITION BY AN UNENDING STREAM OF DARK UNPLEASANTNESS or. You know. (It's tired and I'm late; words are not ordering themselves properly.)

I stopped watching Breaking Bad sometime in the second episode because I could recognize that it was well-constructed, but I was deriving no joy from it whatsoever. I just had this ground-down, sick, stressed feeling. White Collar does not do that. Mostly. ...and when it does, I can remedy the situation by putting a dragon in someone's bedroom.