In Defense of the Networks
In my quest to become a one-woman unpopular opinions thread, I’ve chosen to tackle an issue that’s been bugging me for quite some time, and that is the tendency of fandom (not specifically VM fandom, but any fandom) to blame the network when a show has problems.
The subject came up at The LoVe Shack the other day, on this page, and I couldn’t hold ( Read more... )
What's the other 3%????
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but you put seem to put so much effort and knowledge into them
Thank you! I do spend many hours on these posts (a lot of that is due to my LJ formatting ineptitude, but that beats spending an hour writing up a post for TWoP and then another hour trying to edit it down so that it's under the maximum post length).
In fandom, there seems to be too much apologizing for not liking something everyone else is happy with, and you're not afraid of being negative about things you aren't happy with. I enjoy that.
I think that when you express what's frustrating you, and you find that other people feel the same way, it really makes it better. It's hard with VM, because it's hanging by such a thread, so many people think that if we say negative things on the boards, the execs will see it and cancel the show. That's ridiculous. I think that if people had been more negative at the beginning of S2, particularly on TWoP, which RT was reading, then maybe he would've realized that things were going downhill and needed a course correction. But instead, so many people kept worshipping him like a god and shouting down the unbelievers, Rob just thought everyone was loving it. I hate to say it, but there's a part of me that blames the fans for the mess of season 2.
Thanks for all the nice comments!
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