I love things that are a tad "off."
Be they Tim Burton's over-stylized, gothic, twisted fantasies (SO excited for Alice in Wonderland, coming out March 2010), newly-conceptualized classic works such as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (and her sister classic, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters), or delightfully inventive, over-the-top, throwback cartoons such as The Venture Brothers, I eat that shizzle up.
But why?
Maybe I have an insatiable need to invent upon, to appreciate the kooky and creative, because it breaks the cliched and overdone. I laugh when people unconsciously conform to established modes of storytelling, lifestyle, and subculture, even when they think they are being dazzlingly original. (Cough. Look at how detached I am being. It's not like THAT has ever been done before.)
This is not at all to say that conventions are bad and to be avoided like the plague. Look at TV Tropes again, my friends, and see the fantastically perverse, utterly inventive conventions that people have come up with over time - many of which have proven themselves worthy of reuse. (Oh, how eco-friendly we are being!) But when people take their supposedly alternative, "original" creativity way too seriously...my eyebrows raise. And I desperately want to satirize them. A lot.
How mean and cynical I am. Which makes me the type of person who likes The Venture Brothers. Although I also love the whimsically effervescent, sunshine-y Spongebob Squarepants, so maybe that redeems me a bit.
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