| Fans Made Them Do It |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|02:43 pm] |
I have just one (fandom) squick, but it comes in various subtly different guises. That squick is embarrassment and one of it's many guises is Fans Made Them Do It.
Oddly I came to SGA through said squick. I become peripherally interest in the fandom when David Hewlett first set up his web site and fans started squeeing about his awesome fan friendliness and, well, his awesomeness in general. This squeeing about his awesomeness was largely centered around the way he dealt with fans who thought that it was fun and appropriate to share sexually explicit manips of him in his forum. I'd never before heard of Stargate Atlantis or David Hewlett but my embarrassment squick kicked in hard and I distracted myself by being impressed with David Hewlett.
I suppose without that Fans Made Them Do It incident I might never have discovered and developed a love for SGA and its fandom and would thus have been living without this hugely fun diversion, but I still wish fans wouldn't commit those kinds of faux pas. I wish they wouldn't do it even though without fans sometimes getting carried away and committing such horrifying faux pas we wouldn't have Michael Shanks's hilarious take on it. I wish I had time to track down a YouTube vid of him talking about it.
Speaking of YouTube vids and fan faux pas and getting to the thing which prompted this post and my remembrance of things past, there was a vid linked on ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) mckay_sheppard this week which featured fans at Shore Leave putting DH on the spot and getting him to say "I love you John Sheppard". This was all meant in fun, of course, and I think the fans who put him on the spot probably wouldn't have done the same thing with a less fan-friendly and less accommodating actor, but, still, I found it extremely squicky. Eww. |
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