I have happened to meet over my life several celebrities and I have to say that Mary is definitely one of the nicest person I have ever met. I have met people who are down right bitchy with their fans (allow me not to mention who they are) and I have been quite hurt by some supposedly nice people who stop smiling as soon as the camera has stop shooting or who put a show only when the press is present. So maybe it is customer service, but she does make the effort to make every fan feel special when they meet her and I applaud her for that and she is not a hypocrite about it
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You said it better than I could, so I'll just say 'ditto'! Maybe I just chose to see the best in people (famous or not), but I agree with what you wrote. :)
I don't have a clue what's going on (if there's anything going on at all or if someone just decided to be unnecessarily assholish about things, I've been out of the loop because of life, work and NaNoWriMo), but I agree with most everything that's been said. And it seems to me that that "secret" is from someone who's jealous about not getting to go to a convention or see Mary in person or anything else that others in fandom got to do. So instead of appreciating that Mary takes time out of her life to do those things (which, yes, she gets paid for) for the fans and that fans go to those things and report back with pictures and quotes and squee, they got pissed
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Godsdamm. I detest the atmosphere in this fandom lately. From almost all directions.
Whatthefuckever to this bullshit is my main thought.
Though I will say that I find the OP of the secret's need to devalue Mary's friendly nature almost sad (and I didn't mean friendly as in the ~Mary is our friend~ kind of tinhattery). I've never seen any other celeb's motives questioned in this way. That includes other BSG actors that take part in conventions. Is it simply because she's too nice, because what the hell is this?
It may have been dissing the fans more, but it doesn't exactly put Mary in a positive light either. Yeah, conventions = money, but she doesn't have to be as accommodating as she is. I've seen the same kind of almost attacks on her outside of this secret, and I find it quite bizarre. If any other actor is nice to a fan, I don't see the same things being said... :/
And sorry for the hostility. I just hate that I find myself avoiding anything BSG lately because of all the negativity over the most pointless of things. *moving on*
It's sad that we've come to this. I love Mary and I love fangirls. I have experienced the people trying to one up each other about how many hugs Mary gave them or how personal their autograph was and at the time I just got a bit disgusted and brushed it off as just juvenile and immature jealousy.
To be totally honest, I went to Dragon Con to meet people from LJ. Meeting Mary and everyone else was so completely secondary. It makes me sad that we can't just enjoy each other without falling into these petty things...
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Whatthefuckever to this bullshit is my main thought.
Though I will say that I find the OP of the secret's need to devalue Mary's friendly nature almost sad (and I didn't mean friendly as in the ~Mary is our friend~ kind of tinhattery). I've never seen any other celeb's motives questioned in this way. That includes other BSG actors that take part in conventions. Is it simply because she's too nice, because what the hell is this?
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Yeah... there has been a lot of weird wank lately, and I can't say I've been entirely outside of it all.
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And sorry for the hostility. I just hate that I find myself avoiding anything BSG lately because of all the negativity over the most pointless of things. *moving on*
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To be totally honest, I went to Dragon Con to meet people from LJ. Meeting Mary and everyone else was so completely secondary. It makes me sad that we can't just enjoy each other without falling into these petty things...
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