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I think they should give me a little bit of consideration. I mean, really. I harness the power of the full page Variety ad, and I've been pretty considerate to them...so far.
I am not sure I understood 'Suela's post.
Oh, Michael Shanks (who plays Daniel Jackson, the most woobiefied character on the show) left Stargate for one season, and the fandom went kerboom. There's still a lot of fallout from that in some quarters, despite the fact that the actor came back (possibly chastened, but it's hard to tell). My point was the over-investment in one character resulted in some less than entirely perspectful responses.
However. I have her back, against all comers.
Aww, thanks Gus.
I spent far too much of my personal time trying to save Firefly, for example. Two months, I think. It took it's toll on me and I definately had some bad moments where I went apeshit.
With you there, Allyson. I was really wrapped up in the Save Farscape campaign for about four or five months, and I'm surprised I didn't lose my job (looking back at it now). But I wasn't ever doing it for the creators, except in the sense that I wanted them to finish their story. I was doing it for all the people who'd gotten invested in the story and missed the chance to see the rest. And for the community that formed about the show.
I don't think it was wasted effort: like Firefly, we got something out of it, and I met some cool people. But, yeah, now, it's hard to look back at it and think all of it was time well-spent.
I do not understand those abs.
Sure. A world in which ita does not understand abs is a real world.
It says so here.
But, yeah, now, it's hard to look back at it and think all of it was time well-spent.
I feel that way about nearly every fandom-related endeavor I've worked on. It always seems like a good idea at the time. It almost always ends up feeling like a mistake.
That's not where I ended up with it in my head, but it's how I felt for a long time. Foolish.
That's still how I feel. That it was all this giant avoidance tactic I used so I didn't have to deal with scary things in my life. It took me far too long to catch on and face up to it for me to feel anything other than foolish.
That I don't understand, and I don't really want to make fun of it. It seems too sad.
I think, maybe, a serious chapter on some of the extremes of fandom, in the same tone as your last few posts on it here, would work really well in the book. I mean, even Sedaris has serious amid the rest.
And it's a weird sort of area, people with that sort of investment. Weird, sad, and human.
For the slightly less crazy POV, at some point, I came to some grudging understanding of some of the unsouled Spike redemptionists who were *furious* about the souling when I realized through comments that a fair number of them had grown up in strict (usually Southern) religious communities, and became invested in the idea that you don't have to follow the understood paradigm of Good vs. Evil (righteous vs. sinful) to become a good person. The story they thought they were seeing was the story of themselves, and when turned out to not be that story at all, they got mental whiplash.
a fair number of them had grown up in strict (usually Southern) religious communities, and became invested in the idea that you don't have to follow the understood paradigm of Good vs. Evil (righteous vs. sinful) to become a good person. The story they thought they were seeing was the story of themselves, and when turned out to not be that story at all, they got mental whiplash.
Wow, that's really interesting. I have issues with the concept that you Must Be Religious to be a good person, and this sounds like it ties right into that.
