Veronica Mars
So, Veronica Mars has always been on my, "hey when I have nothing else to watch so I'll get to this eventually list" and that happened for me a few weeks ago. And I can only say that I am thankful I didn't watch the show while it was on TV (the cancellation would have been devastating) and thank god I didn't get around to watching it until last month or the wait for the movie would have drove me insane. So, movie released today, I bought it at 10am on Amazon and watched it at lunch at work. So many things to say. From a critic's point of view, it really was just a glorified tv episode, a made for tv-movie at best. For someone who never saw the show to watch it, they probably aren't going to like it. If hadn't seen the tv show I'm not sure what I would have thought. I would like to think it would inspire me to go back to the show, the snappy dialogue was certainly there. But the characters around Veronica (including Logan) were really one dimensional. It really was more like a supersized season finale than anything else and who in their right mind would watch the season finale of a show they never saw (especially a season 3 finale). Now, speaking as a fan who would have totally contributed to that kickstarter if it were going now (and without hesitation put down $15 for a digital download when piratebay is a saved tab on my laptop) this was awesome. It was the season 3 finale I wanted, because let's face it, when season 3 ended I was like, "NOOOOOO it can't end this way!" I already have the book in my amazon cart. I would be on board with a movie every so often or a rebooted tv show on Netflix or amazon. The movie itself was satisfying, she ended up picking Logan, although Piz ending it meant she didn't really have to choose.
But trying to pass the time away in the few weeks between my binge watching the show and the movie opening I have learned some interesting things about myself as a fanfic consumer. I don't like established relationship fics. I think this is true across all my reading, except with maybe some Wincest if it is apocalypseish or really dark/angsty. The only Arrow fanfic I read is Olicity where they are getting together for the first time. I don't seek out a lot of Wincest but the ones I've read that I liked were first time fics. And with something like Veronica Mars, the tv show did the slow(ish) build and first time on screen, so the few that I read generally didn't do it for me. I think it is hard too because the dialogue that Rob Thomas writes is so great and delivered so well by the actors that reading it just didn't quite do it for me. It will be interesting to see how his books measure up.
Actually I've thought a lot about why I am very specific in the fan fic I read. I watch a lot of shows but I really only read two kinds of fan fic. I think for me part of it was that with Supernatural I started reading pre-series fan fic and through that it is almost like there are two distinct sets of Winchester Brothers in my mind. The TV land ones and the fan fic ones. The fan fic ones are confined mostly to season 5 and earlier including pre-series (or AU/apocalypse stuff). I have only read a small handful of post season 5 cannonish fanfics. Confession time: I think I like fanfic Sam and Dean more than TV Sam and Dean a lot of the times, especially lately.
But trying to pass the time away in the few weeks between my binge watching the show and the movie opening I have learned some interesting things about myself as a fanfic consumer. I don't like established relationship fics. I think this is true across all my reading, except with maybe some Wincest if it is apocalypseish or really dark/angsty. The only Arrow fanfic I read is Olicity where they are getting together for the first time. I don't seek out a lot of Wincest but the ones I've read that I liked were first time fics. And with something like Veronica Mars, the tv show did the slow(ish) build and first time on screen, so the few that I read generally didn't do it for me. I think it is hard too because the dialogue that Rob Thomas writes is so great and delivered so well by the actors that reading it just didn't quite do it for me. It will be interesting to see how his books measure up.
Actually I've thought a lot about why I am very specific in the fan fic I read. I watch a lot of shows but I really only read two kinds of fan fic. I think for me part of it was that with Supernatural I started reading pre-series fan fic and through that it is almost like there are two distinct sets of Winchester Brothers in my mind. The TV land ones and the fan fic ones. The fan fic ones are confined mostly to season 5 and earlier including pre-series (or AU/apocalypse stuff). I have only read a small handful of post season 5 cannonish fanfics. Confession time: I think I like fanfic Sam and Dean more than TV Sam and Dean a lot of the times, especially lately.