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Bah. I haven't posted much or any fandom content lately, have I?
Well, it turns out one needs time in order to even consume sources that can turn into proper fandom participation, and even more time to then participate.
Fandoms as they are, then:
• I've kind of lost my Cabin Pressure mojo. Too many things concur at once in order for me to be able to point at the show and say "this is what left me cold" with certainty - stuff going on in my life which has coloured everything with a slightly murky tint, stuff going on in the fandom that has reflected back on my perception of the show, and then of course there's the show itself.
But so far two episodes of the new series have aired, and I haven't been impressed by either. I'm not sure that if I came to it now it would have the same effect that series 1 and 2 have had.
Part of it could be because I was at the try-outs, where freshly written drafts of what were going to become the episodes were enacted by JF and friends in a friendly pub; I loved what I heard there[1], but then the finished product removed some of my favourite things. Of course the replacement scenes came up short by comparison, and in addition I felt cheated. Now I understand JF's warnings about the unfinished and changeable nature of the try-out material better.
[1] And I wasn't the only one! So it's not a question of "the public didn't like it, so we changed it". Of course, the public loves the episodes as they are, too, so it probably is a matter of me being different from the average. I wish it made me happier, but if one is aiming for easily obtained happiness, average seems to be the way to go.
One could explain it to me till the cows come home - the point remains: if I didn't laugh, it wasn't funny to me. No amount of explaining can 'make' something funny. Laughter is something spontaneous.
It could be that I'm losing my sense of humour. That would be a shame, as I don't have much else going for me. But some things have never been funny to me, and CP had otherwise made me laugh in some of the darkest times. Although, now I think about it, it's never been just about the laughs for me.
But even allowing for that, I still don't understand how people can compare 'Uskerty' to 'Ottery St Mary', and even find it 'better than'.
If you prefer Dreamwidth, you can reply or read the
comment(s) there.
Well, it turns out one needs time in order to even consume sources that can turn into proper fandom participation, and even more time to then participate.
Fandoms as they are, then:
• I've kind of lost my Cabin Pressure mojo. Too many things concur at once in order for me to be able to point at the show and say "this is what left me cold" with certainty - stuff going on in my life which has coloured everything with a slightly murky tint, stuff going on in the fandom that has reflected back on my perception of the show, and then of course there's the show itself.
But so far two episodes of the new series have aired, and I haven't been impressed by either. I'm not sure that if I came to it now it would have the same effect that series 1 and 2 have had.
Part of it could be because I was at the try-outs, where freshly written drafts of what were going to become the episodes were enacted by JF and friends in a friendly pub; I loved what I heard there[1], but then the finished product removed some of my favourite things. Of course the replacement scenes came up short by comparison, and in addition I felt cheated. Now I understand JF's warnings about the unfinished and changeable nature of the try-out material better.
[1] And I wasn't the only one! So it's not a question of "the public didn't like it, so we changed it". Of course, the public loves the episodes as they are, too, so it probably is a matter of me being different from the average. I wish it made me happier, but if one is aiming for easily obtained happiness, average seems to be the way to go.
One could explain it to me till the cows come home - the point remains: if I didn't laugh, it wasn't funny to me. No amount of explaining can 'make' something funny. Laughter is something spontaneous.
It could be that I'm losing my sense of humour. That would be a shame, as I don't have much else going for me. But some things have never been funny to me, and CP had otherwise made me laugh in some of the darkest times. Although, now I think about it, it's never been just about the laughs for me.
But even allowing for that, I still don't understand how people can compare 'Uskerty' to 'Ottery St Mary', and even find it 'better than'.
If you prefer Dreamwidth, you can reply or read the
comment(s) there.