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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[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 tv, there will be rabid fangirls to annoy the masses. At least they are excellent fodder for us to make fun of.

[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.