Sci-Fi Brouhaha at Entertainment Weekly

[kimarama]

Entertainment Weekly posted their take on the Top 25 Sci-Fi Movies from the past 25 years. All in all, it's not a bad list but, like with any "Best of", is fairly subjective. EW in their innocence eagerness to do the best reporting possible, asked for reader feedback, prompting a firestorm for the

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[briary_flower]

Whenever people get all het up about Farscape I'm always suspicious, because in the beginning there were like, five people watching, and everybody else was all, Muppets?! I'm not watching a show with MUPPETS!!!

Who's EW trying to kid leaving Empire of the list?

[kimarama]

I never watched Farscape when it was on during prime time (or whatever) because I didn't have cable! I only subscribed to cable in the last 5 years or so. By that time, it was already over-ish and I had to catch up on DVD. However, I'm inclined to think that any introduction to Farscape is a good introduction to Farscape.

re: the Empire Strikes Back, it's too old. It was released in 1980, making it 27 years old - two years past the 25 year maximum.

[briary_flower]

You're right, you're right. I dunno - I guess I just have this kneejerk snobbery about "new" fans. Like, recently there was a huge article about Buffy in the Toronto Star, with a couple of pop culture "experts" debating ... God, I don't know.

Why Buffy still slays us

One of the experts, Malene Arpe, is on the Space Channel every time I turn it on, being an expert on the portrayal of women in science fiction or something. But in the article she says, "I was a latecomer to Buffy and didn't catch up until somewhere around the beginning of Season 6 via DVDs and reruns. " And I read that and thought, You mean you're a *sneers* 'shipper, not a Buffy fan. And sure enough, two seconds later she says, "Besides, Season 6 has all that illicit Spike sex

[kimarama]

I totally hear what you're saying. I had the same thing back in college over bands. I'd discover a cool indy band and listen to them until they got famous (REM, anyone?) and then be all "Where the heck were you people back during the Murmur days?" Actually, I still listened to REM I was just really snooty about it. So I totally understand where you're coming from.

Then, my friend, L, who was even more of a music snob than me, sat me down and told me that REM wasn't about me, it was about them and did I want them to have to play crappy venues their entire career and didn't I want them to make some money and get some recognition for their art, and be able to stay somewhere other than a youth hostel when they traveled, etc?

However, I am sooooooooo with you about fangirls. I can't reconcile them either. In fact, rubykatewriting just had a post about all the annoying GG fangirls who hate Rory for a variety of insane fangirl reasons and I just want to shake them and say "it's not about you, dumbshit!" I guess as long as there are hot guys on

[briary_flower]

Heh! My brother is a studio engineer and works with indie acts and he says along that way lies madness: if you're such a snob you give up an act when they get famous, you're just cutting yourself out of the fun. But it's hard, eh? Whenever a song is on the soundtrack for a CW show - that's always a hard moment for me.

Yeah - I feel stupid about how naive I was about the fangirl thing. At the end of GG season 2, I thought it was about the moment, the wedding, Rory's blue dress, the illicit kiss. I didn't get that fangirls everywhere were screencapping that to cut out Rory's face and insert their own.

You know, I don't care if someone wants to trash-talk someone else. But women trash-talking other women over envy about some guy? I won't tolerate or facilitate that. And women trash-talking other women over a fake, non-existent, totally made up TV character? Argh.