I'm Too Nerdy for My Button Up Shirt...

So, every get that feeling that your know way too much about a topic that's good for you? I don't mean knowing about something because you studied it in school or it was your major, but knowledge that goes beyond factual and beyond the normal curve of what you should know regarding the topic. For example, I think I know way to much about the 2005 movie version of Pride and Prejudice. I've watched the director's version multiple times as well as the actual movies and every single bonus feature that I know of. I've also spent long interludes of minutes on the IMDb site "researching" the actors in it and finding out other things they've been in to compare their characters and performances. Some things I know about the movie include: the soundtrack BY HEART including which pieces you can hear the page turns of the music in, how many times they did certain scenes, which scene was the one they used for auditioning they actors with, which scenes have real skies in them and which ones have been painted by artists, what camera filter is used in a certain scene to make it appear later in the day and a lot stormier, and that Donald Sutherland's teeth were considered too white for the P&P era to show on camera full out so they had him cover his mouth with his hand in the scene where Lizzy talks to him about marrying Darcy. See? WAY too much information.

I'm almost to that point with Doctor Who too, at least with the new series. TO be honest though, my knowledge of the old episodes and old doctors previous to the ninth is almost null. So what I know is limited to 2005 and beyond.

It seems to me that I have what a friend once called, "an addictive personality". I'm not sure if it's a real term or not, I should but I don't. I'm guessing it's sort of a slang and not technical meaning to someone who gets addicted to things but not always in a bad way. Once I find a show or a book series or a website I really like, I read it/watch it/find out all the information I can about it until I'm bored. And them when I've exhausted my options for that topic or show, I'll try to find other things that are similar to it that I can get involved with. It's a vicious cycle really.

Another thing that I do when I watch an excess of one TV show is start to imitate the characters in some way. I've heard it said that people who are highly involved in music and are musically inclined tend towards better mimicry and pick up on other people's character traits faster and more intensely so maybe I can blame it on that. In any case I always find myself saying certain phrases from the shows in my daily language or saying certain voice inflections or even doing hand, head, and body gestures of characters. It's not too obvious to others I'm assuming since no one has called me out on it, but then again maybe they're being nice. So along with gathering knowledge I also seem to gather personalities too. It really is a vicious, vicious cycle.

Thanks for reading!