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Vyazka (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} vyazka) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2005-10-10 16:53:00 |
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Serenity is "Out of Gas": More Firefly Wank
More tl;dr Firefly/Serenity wank over at Whedonesque when a fan gives a call to arms to "Strap on your blood-pressure cuffs!" Let me preface this by saying that I am a Firefly fan. I saw Serenity opening weekend, liked it fine but have my share of criticsms. That said, my fandom keeps on bringing the crazy.
Actually, if someone could icon that for me, I'd be much obliged.
It all starts with another review by Devin over at CHUD.com. To his credit, it's far less inflammatory, and Devin, did in fact call the 40%+ drop in earnings that Serenity has suffered at the box office.
But even though SoddingNancyTribe (who is pretty awesome in his own right) and the other mods are watching closely, it quickly descends into "a pissing contest" when the Whedonesquers decide that they don't like his [Devin's] tone, or his "sorry attempt to get more traffic for his website."
"See this is why CHUD and AICN will never be anything more than glorified fanboy sites. He can try and dress up his writing as being genuine journalism, but he can never truly pull it off if he's intent on writing "I was right, and you were wrong, nya-nya-nya-nya-na" style articles."
Some more gems from the wank:
KBP: A 22 paragraph article that reads exactly the same as the last thing he wrote? And we're the obsessive ones? Ok.
Allyson:
Okay. I was not entertained by Serenity. At all. I was mostly bored and wondering if I had maybe seen a different film. I do worry about the handfuls of fans I've seen on the net behaving as if they have somehow lost their homes, their life savings, and their dogs due to the flick not making a killing at the Box Office. I was worried when I saw the Variety ad thingy happening. In general, I dig fandom a whole lot, they're my people, and everyone who knows me knows I've gone way overboard on caring from time to time.
But there is a small cult of Browncoats bordering on an almost sort of religious fanaticism. It's creepy.
I do believe that Devin's continuing pieces are cries for attention, due to the baiting language. But I don't necessarily disagree with some of his points about fandom. There are some fans who can't hear, "This is your movie" without taking that as a decree that their very souls are at stake. It's not the great many, and here on the internets, their voices are louder than if we were hanging on the edge of fandom, as I think most fans do.
But Devin is baiting that particular group with these pieces, like poking a starving dog with a stick. There's something to be written about all of this, but I think Devin is the wrong writer for the task.
miranda:
I do not want this turning into a pisssing contest between us and Devin.
So what are you saying – Devin is a bigger dick than us?
I am so terribly sorry! Zero impulse control. Please don’t hit me. To quote Evelyn Waugh: “I would just enjoy it”.
Some sane fen point out that while Devin's language is incendiary (although he says it isn't) but that doesn't mean he's wrong. Watch them be promptly ignored by the rabid masses.
Please don't hate me by association. I'm a quiet Joss geek, I promise.
More tl;dr Firefly/Serenity wank over at Whedonesque when a fan gives a call to arms to "Strap on your blood-pressure cuffs!" Let me preface this by saying that I am a Firefly fan. I saw Serenity opening weekend, liked it fine but have my share of criticsms. That said, my fandom keeps on bringing the crazy.
Actually, if someone could icon that for me, I'd be much obliged.
It all starts with another review by Devin over at CHUD.com. To his credit, it's far less inflammatory, and Devin, did in fact call the 40%+ drop in earnings that Serenity has suffered at the box office.
But even though SoddingNancyTribe (who is pretty awesome in his own right) and the other mods are watching closely, it quickly descends into "a pissing contest" when the Whedonesquers decide that they don't like his [Devin's] tone, or his "sorry attempt to get more traffic for his website."
"See this is why CHUD and AICN will never be anything more than glorified fanboy sites. He can try and dress up his writing as being genuine journalism, but he can never truly pull it off if he's intent on writing "I was right, and you were wrong, nya-nya-nya-nya-na" style articles."
Some more gems from the wank:
KBP: A 22 paragraph article that reads exactly the same as the last thing he wrote? And we're the obsessive ones? Ok.
Allyson:
Okay. I was not entertained by Serenity. At all. I was mostly bored and wondering if I had maybe seen a different film. I do worry about the handfuls of fans I've seen on the net behaving as if they have somehow lost their homes, their life savings, and their dogs due to the flick not making a killing at the Box Office. I was worried when I saw the Variety ad thingy happening. In general, I dig fandom a whole lot, they're my people, and everyone who knows me knows I've gone way overboard on caring from time to time.
But there is a small cult of Browncoats bordering on an almost sort of religious fanaticism. It's creepy.
I do believe that Devin's continuing pieces are cries for attention, due to the baiting language. But I don't necessarily disagree with some of his points about fandom. There are some fans who can't hear, "This is your movie" without taking that as a decree that their very souls are at stake. It's not the great many, and here on the internets, their voices are louder than if we were hanging on the edge of fandom, as I think most fans do.
But Devin is baiting that particular group with these pieces, like poking a starving dog with a stick. There's something to be written about all of this, but I think Devin is the wrong writer for the task.
miranda:
I do not want this turning into a pisssing contest between us and Devin.
So what are you saying – Devin is a bigger dick than us?
I am so terribly sorry! Zero impulse control. Please don’t hit me. To quote Evelyn Waugh: “I would just enjoy it”.
Some sane fen point out that while Devin's language is incendiary (although he says it isn't) but that doesn't mean he's wrong. Watch them be promptly ignored by the rabid masses.
Please don't hate me by association. I'm a quiet Joss geek, I promise.
