Fan Entitlement. It has been and will always be with us.
(I'm sure there was crap like this in the 70s with 'zines and apas, but it just took longer to get a kerfuffle going)
Xander: We just saw the zebras mating! Thank you, very exciting... Willow: It was like the Heimlich, with stripes!
'Him'
The Minearverse 5: Closer to the Earth, Further from the Ax
[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, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Sheryl - Mar 10, 2007 7:31:49 am PST #4564 of 10001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Topic!Cindy - Mar 10, 2007 8:40:55 am PST #4565 of 10001
What is even happening?
(Actually, I did mean the 'zines and cons, and all the ur-fandom stuff, but I wanted to use a Buffy quote, because of the day.)
Zenkitty - Mar 10, 2007 10:42:44 am PST #4566 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I had an apa-kerfuffle one time back in the late '70s with Nancy Collins - oh, excuse me, Nancy A Collins - who wrote for Swamp Thing, back before she had anything published. She was a nasty bitch to me for no reason whatsoever and never apologized. I was about 16 and she's 4 years older, so, you know, neither of us were real mature at the time. (About five year later I dated her ex and didn't even know it until we all crossed paths at a con.)
Topic!Cindy - Mar 10, 2007 11:02:19 am PST #4567 of 10001
What is even happening?
totally wrong thread
Kevin - Mar 10, 2007 5:13:05 pm PST #4568 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
I just saw the ratings in table form for The Inside today. Although the numbers were obviously low across the board, it still showed a substainal jump from episode 1 to episode 2 (good), and climbed up nearly every week. The final episode aired was the highest rated.
I would deduct that although The Inside never found it's audience to sustain the show, it still built upon it's audience week to week. Which is good. Comparing it to Firefly, Firefly had a drop off from the first episode, and then struggled to maintain the audience. The Inside last aired episode had more viewers than Firefly's last aired episode ("Serenity").
Kevin - Mar 11, 2007 10:34:07 am PDT #4569 of 10001
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Drive promos on MadTV and Fox News today. Of course, people watching Fox News might confuse them for an actual news story.
Liese S. - Mar 11, 2007 10:52:03 am PDT #4570 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I wish we wouldn't do this. I know it's commonplace on the boards, but it's always just possible that someone of a different political view might end up being a fan of the show.
Tamara - Mar 11, 2007 11:00:25 am PDT #4571 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Fox News has protected minority status now?
ColinG - Mar 11, 2007 11:58:23 am PDT #4572 of 10001
Yeah!
Let us stifle simple throwaway joke lines buy calling more attention to them then they needed, and pretend they are a slam on a political belief.
Fox News has been the butt of jokes on the Fox network, so I don't think it's totally uncalled for to call them on their sensationalist practices- this does not even begin to talk about politics, unless you see the Anna Nicole Smith coverage political- and a story about an illegal road race would not be percieved as a political piece.
Cass - Mar 11, 2007 12:00:51 pm PDT #4573 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
but it's always just possible that someone of a different political view might end up being a fan of the show.Also possible that someone of a different political view might even be a member of the boards.