It
always starts innocently enough. I say I'm
just going to go watch some TV. But
that's where everything normal stops.
When I turn on the TV, instead of watching something that would make me
a better human being, I watch something that even the weirdest people have
probably never even heard of.
Goosebumps.
Do I
like it? Of course not. It's irritating and predictable and the
characters are always so childish. But
if I really don't like it, why do I watch it almost every day?
I would
like to blame someone else. Maybe my dad
is to blame, after all, he was the one who thought we should have Netflix. I could blame the lack of interesting TV
shows. But to be able to do that, I
would have to finish watching all of the cooking shows I have recorded. I could blame my sister. She likes them too, well, that or she's a
really great actor.
The
funniest part is, they don't scare me.
I'm not just saying that to sound brave.
The only way they could scare me would be if I couldn't sleep (so pretty
much every night) and I'd have nothing to do so I think about creepy
things. It doesn't make sense. Four A.M., can't sleep, I'm sitting alone in
a dark room and I think about creepy stuff.
But
when I freak myself out, it isn't the pictures of the weird looking vampires
from Goosebumps that I see. I see the Other Mother from Coraline; I think too much about the man
in the black suit from the Stephen King short story I read. (It's in Everything's Eventual, I
couldn't sleep for weeks after I read it);
I wonder if the shuffling in the dark is my cat or Capricorn struggling
to free himself from my bookshelf; or maybe, reaching way back, Cluny the
Scourge is making his rounds.
So what
do I get out of these shows? They barely
entertain me, they don't scare me, they never tell you the ending. Why do I insist on watching them?
Maybe I
have too much spare time. But judging
from the number of library books I have, I should be reading all day.
So if
it's not that I have too much free time, and it's not that I secretly like them
(because no matter what everyone thinks I still do not like them), what is
it?
The
special effects are terrible, I make fun of the plot lines (which, by the way,
are terrible), but it's still one of the most watched things on my Netflix
queue. I even watched The Nightmare Room
on Chiller-The Nightmare Room is like Goosebumps, but it's been made recently,
at least, I think it was.
I
should be writing. I should be cleaning
my room. I should be doing something
interesting. I could bake soufflé, I
could watch Doctor Who (seen all of the recent ones, can't wait for the
Christmas special - perhaps no Goosebumps that day). But no, I watch Goosebumps.
I'm
happy to say that I only have a few unwatched episodes left, so soon I'll stop
watching them. I hope...
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