Weirding yourself out
I was watching the commentaries for season 2 of Leverage when I realized that not everyone watches them for the same reason.
I sometimes hunt down and read interviews with actors. I was wondering why I do this when I hate remembering an actor's name while I'm watching them play a character. Associating that face with a real person messes with the escapism. But simply, it's for the same reason I watch commentaries: I'm hoping people will give little insights or tidbits into the characters.
I think it's left over from writing fanfic. You know how even the tiniest bit of information is something that helps you map out the whole? I collect info almost obsessively. I don't even write fanfic anymore and I HAVE to have as accurate an image of these characters as possible in my head. I HATE the idea that I'm misunderstanding something. So now I know which Leverage actors are the most chatty about their characters (and spoilers *coughTimHuttoncough*) and which voices on the commentaries belong to which character-knowledgeable people (John Rogers FTW). It occurred to me that I'm a little weird when I started to realize not everyone in the fandom had read/heard this little insight or that little insight and have only had the show--actual canon--to figure things out by. The tidbits I've found? Could be changed at any time.
That would suck.
I sometimes hunt down and read interviews with actors. I was wondering why I do this when I hate remembering an actor's name while I'm watching them play a character. Associating that face with a real person messes with the escapism. But simply, it's for the same reason I watch commentaries: I'm hoping people will give little insights or tidbits into the characters.
I think it's left over from writing fanfic. You know how even the tiniest bit of information is something that helps you map out the whole? I collect info almost obsessively. I don't even write fanfic anymore and I HAVE to have as accurate an image of these characters as possible in my head. I HATE the idea that I'm misunderstanding something. So now I know which Leverage actors are the most chatty about their characters (and spoilers *coughTimHuttoncough*) and which voices on the commentaries belong to which character-knowledgeable people (John Rogers FTW). It occurred to me that I'm a little weird when I started to realize not everyone in the fandom had read/heard this little insight or that little insight and have only had the show--actual canon--to figure things out by. The tidbits I've found? Could be changed at any time.
That would suck.