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rogueslayer452) wrote2020-07-26 02:52 pm
rogueslayer452) wrote2020-07-26 02:52 pm
And now for something a little fannish.
Taken from the Crunchy Questions Meme:
What is a series finale most fans disliked, but that you liked - or the other way around?
Battlestar Galactica is a show where the series finale was quite heavily divided by most of the fans, which unfortunately kinda led to the disappearance of the fandom shortly thereafter, much to my dismay. However, I'm someone who actually really liked the series finale when I first watched it. In fact, the more I rewatched it, the more I loved it. I can acknowledge it wasn't perfect, and that there were things that could've been managed a bit better, but overall it was a wonderful and beautiful finale to a fantastic show. I felt satisfied with it.
Funnily enough, since there has been a mini-resurgence of it with newer fans due to the current events happening in our world, I've seen many people binge-watch the entire show and some have said that they absolutely loved the ending and didn't understand why it wasn't well-received initially. Not gonna lie, it makes me feel kind of vindicated in a way.
If you're in fandom, do you prefer focusing on fanworks, meta, or do you like helpings of both?
I enjoy both equally.
Fanworks are great to see and support creative people in fandom, whether it be fanfiction, fanart, graphic and gifmaking, and other forms of artistic expression. You see a lot of variety and styles, from both big and smaller fandoms. And reading meta has always been something I've enjoyed, because I love seeing different opinions and thoughts that critiques or analyzes something, whether it's a specific piece of media, a character, a pairing, fandom as a whole, whatever it is. Sadly, the latter isn't seen as much these days, particularly in written form. It still does exist in certain areas of fandom of course, but not as prominent as it used to be. You'll most likely end up getting short "hot takes" without going further in-depth, and it's often just shared around on social media platforms without anyone adding anything to the conversation, and it just gets lost in the void. Video essays have become more common in recent years, which is great and I've liked a lot of those, although sometimes some of those don't really focus much on the fandom/fannish side of things and just go straight into media analysis, and I've personally liked seeing the interconnection of the two, like an introspection of fandom's relationship with a piece of media and the like.
But yeah, as a whole I love and enjoy both of my fandom experience.
What is a series finale most fans disliked, but that you liked - or the other way around?
Battlestar Galactica is a show where the series finale was quite heavily divided by most of the fans, which unfortunately kinda led to the disappearance of the fandom shortly thereafter, much to my dismay. However, I'm someone who actually really liked the series finale when I first watched it. In fact, the more I rewatched it, the more I loved it. I can acknowledge it wasn't perfect, and that there were things that could've been managed a bit better, but overall it was a wonderful and beautiful finale to a fantastic show. I felt satisfied with it.
Funnily enough, since there has been a mini-resurgence of it with newer fans due to the current events happening in our world, I've seen many people binge-watch the entire show and some have said that they absolutely loved the ending and didn't understand why it wasn't well-received initially. Not gonna lie, it makes me feel kind of vindicated in a way.
If you're in fandom, do you prefer focusing on fanworks, meta, or do you like helpings of both?
I enjoy both equally.
Fanworks are great to see and support creative people in fandom, whether it be fanfiction, fanart, graphic and gifmaking, and other forms of artistic expression. You see a lot of variety and styles, from both big and smaller fandoms. And reading meta has always been something I've enjoyed, because I love seeing different opinions and thoughts that critiques or analyzes something, whether it's a specific piece of media, a character, a pairing, fandom as a whole, whatever it is. Sadly, the latter isn't seen as much these days, particularly in written form. It still does exist in certain areas of fandom of course, but not as prominent as it used to be. You'll most likely end up getting short "hot takes" without going further in-depth, and it's often just shared around on social media platforms without anyone adding anything to the conversation, and it just gets lost in the void. Video essays have become more common in recent years, which is great and I've liked a lot of those, although sometimes some of those don't really focus much on the fandom/fannish side of things and just go straight into media analysis, and I've personally liked seeing the interconnection of the two, like an introspection of fandom's relationship with a piece of media and the like.
But yeah, as a whole I love and enjoy both of my fandom experience.
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I miss fandom groups on LJ or in places that require more than a "like" or a quick Facebook comment. I really liked having fandom discussions and I think there's less of that now. It's also a bit harder as with streaming people watch everything on their own schedule so it's not like when we all watched an episode on the same day and then talked about it for a week.
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I don't know, like I do think certain aspects were a bit rushed and could've been done better, but as a whole the series finale wrapped up the show beautifully and I wouldn't have it any other way.
It has always made me sad that BSG was a massive deal when it aired, but then whether it was because of the series finale or whatever the fandom basically drifted off and it's not as talked about anymore, however now there are newer fans emerging and have appreciated the show and the series finale, which makes me happy.
Yeah, I definitely think social media has really kind of warped the way people interact as a whole because there's not so much discussions anymore. They still happen, of course, but it's very limited and often buried by other nonsense and we tend to really rely on likes/reblogs/retweets to validate a post instead of actually inviting conversation or discussion to take place. Fandom especially has suffered from the lack of discussions, meta or otherwise, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one missing that aspect of the fandom community.
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I still love BSG and recommend it to people all of the time. It's such a solid show.
I'd love to see LJ have a resurgence or something similar get more popular because I love the fandom discussions that spring up on platforms like this.
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I also still love BSG, it's one of my favorite scifi shows of all time.
Man, I would love a resurgence of LJ especially when it comes to fandom. I've had some LJ friends who left for a long while kind of trickle back in, but I don't know if it'll have a proper resurgence. Those who left LJ did so for a reason, and those unfamiliar with the site will be confused by the platform because they're so used to the formatting of other social media sites. Although quite frankly, I'll admit as much as I want the fandom side of LJ to come back I don't want any of the nonsense that has been happening among the fandom community (i.e. policing people's interests, purity culture, etc), because there's a reason why I enjoy talking about my fannish interests here and not anywhere else.
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That's what I think about the end of Mass Effect 3. I mean, it had three different possible endings that are really the only ways it could have ended, yet people complain.
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I'd guess it's the same for the game? Sometimes everyone doesn't get a happy ending but that's better in terms of the overall plot.