So you get people who have formed a whole online identity based on being angry about a fictional miscarriage of justice.
Like, say, Doyle-murdering.
We didn't have sex, if that's what you mean. That's all I do now, not have sex.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Betsy HP - May 22, 2005 6:40:51 pm PDT #7127 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
P.M. Marc - May 22, 2005 6:47:12 pm PDT #7128 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
The same people who made you care about the character originally did this terrible thing to him/her -- they intentionally did something that hurt you. They wanted it to hurt you.
But... that's what I'm in it for! It's why I said, when confessing to falling hard for Spooks/MI-5 on episode the second:
Suddenly, the show is Tim Minear brutal, and I realize that no-one is safe.
Bring on the pain, and screw the safe word.
I only get mad at the creators (and then in the same "bitch, PLEASE!" way I got mad at Flaubert for the inane drivel that was Madame Bovary) when they write something that sucks/insults even my idiot cat's intellegence.
Gus - May 22, 2005 6:49:43 pm PDT #7129 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
So you get people who have formed a whole online identity based on being angry about a fictional miscarriage of justice.
These persons scare me. Identities based on anger scare me.
Maybe I am just scared.
SailAweigh - May 22, 2005 6:50:58 pm PDT #7130 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Eh, Cindy, that must have been a doppelganger you bumped into at the Kitten board. As far as I remember, when I first ventured into online fandom, all the boards I registered at were Spike-centric. It is possible, though, that I registered at the Kitten board because they had information about Chance when it came out. Possibly, but I don't think so. I never would have posted there, though. As it is, most of the boards I'm registered at I just used either for spoiler info or for fic recs.
Kristen - May 22, 2005 6:58:54 pm PDT #7131 of 10001
The Doyle fans, while definitely pissed off, never reached the same place that some of the W/T fans did. At times, they were annoying (especially the WE DESERVE THE TRUTH people). But mostly they were just eye-rolling funny.
The post-Tara death saga was, I think, the first time I saw other fans as "scary." All the "don't stand near any windows" rhetoric was a whole new level of anger and I still can't comprehend it.
Gus - May 22, 2005 7:05:55 pm PDT #7132 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
t wonders if he is a scary fan
Bag that.
Every Buffista scared of me is a wimp.
SailAweigh - May 22, 2005 7:06:39 pm PDT #7133 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
::looks at Gus::
::laughs::
Gus - May 22, 2005 7:13:37 pm PDT #7134 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
:: Looks at SailAweigh ::
:: Lusts ::
Sail may be ahead on points.
Kristen - May 22, 2005 7:15:57 pm PDT #7135 of 10001
And, look, there's an official message board now for The Inside.
Gus - May 22, 2005 7:18:42 pm PDT #7136 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I ain't signing no agreements with Fox about my right to have an opinion.