Comments | nthdraft: schadenfreude

nthdraft

schadenfreude

Jul 11, 2009 10:53

I love the smell of exploding fandoms in the morning.

I'm definitely bringing my camera to Comic con. Some asshat suggested holding up a TV show writer at plastic gunpoint to protest the death of some character on some TV show. Among other things. (full disclosure: I do not watch show, never heard of the characters, and do not care. Even if I did ( Read more... )

sdcc, fail, lol, coffee, stupid, fandom, comics

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pinikir July 11 2009, 18:11:51 UTC

oh boy it should be interesting! Let me know how that panel turns out, there is going to be some very very angry fans there

ahem...all us Torchwoodies seem to have gone a little mental this week

shila_hh July 11 2009, 20:26:08 UTC

Oh, we were afraid something like this (or even worse) could happen. And you are right. This is SOOO stupid. In my view the idea of "The Great Coffee Protest" (*LOL*) is a better way to show, what we TW fans feel at the moment.

P.S. Yes, nobody owns a character, but the author. On the contrary I am really angry about the ruin of good and successful TV show. *grmpf*

P.P.S. Popcorn is a good idea. You should also cater for a comfortable chair. This panel could become a veeery interesting one. ;-)

nthdraft July 12 2009, 23:13:11 UTC

Yes, but you see, the idea is that a writer cannot go to a convention, which is a professional trade show that happens also to let other people in, without fearing for his/her safety. Fewer are taking the risk of doing any interaction with their fans or readers because of the threat, whether it's been made or just implied ( ... )

FMA Spoiler ahead nthdraft July 12 2009, 23:26:29 UTC

oh, and one more thing I thought of: nothing traumatized me more in a fictional series than when Maes Hughes gets senselessly killed halfway through the Fullmetal Alchemist anime by a shapeshifter who shapes himself into Hughes's wife just to make it even more horrifying. But I watched the rest of series 1 and when they brought back an alternate version of him in the movie it just wasn't the same. But I understand how that death was a component and catalyst not just for Edward's story, but for Roy's as well. It was horrible, but in plot terms it was necessary. I mourned him by naming a character in my last book after him. Then I killed him again. Hadn't planned on it when I created him, but the story took me there, so that's what happened ( ... )