I love fandom like Arthur loves paradoxes.

[rogueslayer452]

I know people are excited for the new S6 promo and I don't mean to harsh anyone's squee, but I feel rather spoiled now with people posting it everywhere without a cut. I know it's just an embedded video and I can just scroll passed it, but seeing it posted many times on my flist can kind of be distracting, particularly since I am still spoiler-free about everything. So, common courtesy please?

Anyway, there's been some exciting and interesting things happened in fandom lately:

++ Caprica returns on October 5th instead of January! \O/ It seems like the folks over on SciFi are finally doing something right, since these extended mid-season hiatuses are getting rather irritating. There's been no official word yet about it being renewed, and I know some are worried because of this change, however I am staying optimistic because it's because of this change-back to the original scheduling for a fall return is the best thing the network has done in rearranging their schedule.

++ DEATHLY HALLOWS TV SPOT!!! BRB SPAZZING. *___*

++ Misha makes typical sarcastic Tweet, people don't get it and unfollow him, Misha snarks makes fun of unfollowers for not understanding witty sarcasm. As always, Misha wins the Internet.

++ Via inception_kink prompt: MY LITTLE INCEPTION PONIES! LOOKIT THE CUTENESS, ESPECIALLY FISCHER. OMG FISCHER WITH THE LITTLE PINWHEEL. SDJ;FALSDJFLASKJDF *cuddles forever* Seriously, that prompt was perfect and this person is awesome for making it so. Bless this fandom. ♥

Comments

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you may be right. I've been trying to understand the mechanisms of this kind of business, but the more I dig into it the more complicated it seems. Basically, it's all about what the network executives want and all they care about are the numbers. It's a numbers game to them. They don't care about quality or the story or the unique vision a creator has, all they want is for ratings and nothing more. I think that's why Joss Whedon had said he's done with television for a while because he doesn't want to play that game with networks anymore.

[love-jackianto.livejournal.com]

'Basically, it's all about what the network executives want and all they care about are the numbers.'
Pretty much. There have been several shows that have taken awhile for them to find their audience (M.A.S.H, Seinfeld) and become popular, but more often than not if a show is not hugely popular right out of the gate it gets canceled. Whenever people do talk about shows that take awhile popular they always seem to say those shows would never be kept on the air NOW. As much as I hate the fact that SPN gets almost no promotion on the CW, I don't think it would have survived on a network like ABC or CBS.