okay so
Synecdochic (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/103006.html) posted a meta rant on why she has broken up with SGA. I like meta for the most part, I'm nosy and I like to what other people think and why they like the things they do. (or evidently the majority of people who read her lj) cause I LIKE S3 so far (I have seen only the front end of the season to McKay and Mrs. Miller), S2 drove me a little nuts cause it was fairly skitso and scattered. And S1 was brilliant but I always felt it was a little flat. S3 has really started to pick up that s1 feeling of hanging by a thread, seat of their pants space cowboy type of heroics. Now I will admit, Irresistible and the season opener arc were completely ridiculous, but the rest was rather good.
Everyone who said that the Stargate writers were good at setting up these deep, fraught with possibilities plot lines and then running them into the ground with unfunny humor are all entirely correct. They do have a nasty habit of doing that and it used to drive me insane. But I've come to acknowledge that this is a GOOD THING. Stay with me now.
I've noticed in my nearly decade long travels in fandom that some shows and movies provide a much better frame work for slash (specifically) and fandom (generally). Usually the shows that provide the most for fandom are the one with great potential but lack the follow through in the actual canon. This spurs our interest in seeing what we can do with that universe. We (or at least I) are unsatisfied by what the creators are giving us, so we have to do it ourselves. But without that shared framework of this (likely) deeply flawed show (book, movie, etc). You'd basically be writing a original AU that no one would likely care about.
The show with the most potential and the least follow through creates the biggest fandom. Think about it, have you ever watched a movie or show or read a book and through to yourself, "Wow that was so slashy" or "I bet those two characters are totally having sex" or "I wonder what happened afterwards or before." And maybe you go to look for the fandom and find a yawning emptiness. I've had that happen countless times. I always wondered why.
Two main reasons: 1) the show just wasn't good enough to inspire those kinds of questions in a critical mass of fans or 2) the show answered all the question or fulfilled its potential to a degree that everyone was satisfied by what they were given.
I think a certain amount of dissatisfaction with a show is what makes fandom. Now maybe the others are just too dissatisfied with SGA and really that's fair, they can be. I'm just sad they're disenchanted with it. Especially Synocdochic. She's a good author. But life always progresses. If you stop, you die.
On another, but related note. I haven't heard one person say they liked the first half of S3 of Quite frankly I cannot understand that AT ALL. OMG I love that arc soooo much, it's not even funny. I mean yeah the cop was a total bitch and House was a complete ass but I felt it was so very very in character and best of all. It was HUMAN. Haven't you ever just completely fucked yourself over by being spiteful? I have, a LOT. But, dude, I bet it was so worth it at the time, even if the consequences were disastrous. House is not a nice man. He's a good man, he's an effective man, he's a smart man. But in no sense of the word could he be considered nice. So to see him be so stupid and stubborn and just a complete ass to the cop and everyone around him (even and especially when they're trying to help) was just so ON. I think it gives him way more depth as a character, personally season 2 felt a little stale to me at times. Everyone else seemed to grow, Chase, Cameron, Wilson, Cuddy, but House was House and that was that. S3 totally blew that out of the water.
Also some people complained about how in S1 and 2 they presented House not as an addict but as just dependent on the drugs to stay pain free. MY ASS. He said that over and over and when he made the bet with Cuddy about going off it for a week and BROKE HIS OWN FINGER. Right, who in their right mind does that? House is pig headed and stubborn as...a really stubborn thing but he is, was and always will be an addict, albeit a completely functional one.
I really love that whole arc but to alleviate some fears, s4 is supposed to be back in the same mold as s1 and 2 for all you people who didn't like s3.
Everyone who said that the Stargate writers were good at setting up these deep, fraught with possibilities plot lines and then running them into the ground with unfunny humor are all entirely correct. They do have a nasty habit of doing that and it used to drive me insane. But I've come to acknowledge that this is a GOOD THING. Stay with me now.
I've noticed in my nearly decade long travels in fandom that some shows and movies provide a much better frame work for slash (specifically) and fandom (generally). Usually the shows that provide the most for fandom are the one with great potential but lack the follow through in the actual canon. This spurs our interest in seeing what we can do with that universe. We (or at least I) are unsatisfied by what the creators are giving us, so we have to do it ourselves. But without that shared framework of this (likely) deeply flawed show (book, movie, etc). You'd basically be writing a original AU that no one would likely care about.
The show with the most potential and the least follow through creates the biggest fandom. Think about it, have you ever watched a movie or show or read a book and through to yourself, "Wow that was so slashy" or "I bet those two characters are totally having sex" or "I wonder what happened afterwards or before." And maybe you go to look for the fandom and find a yawning emptiness. I've had that happen countless times. I always wondered why.
Two main reasons: 1) the show just wasn't good enough to inspire those kinds of questions in a critical mass of fans or 2) the show answered all the question or fulfilled its potential to a degree that everyone was satisfied by what they were given.
I think a certain amount of dissatisfaction with a show is what makes fandom. Now maybe the others are just too dissatisfied with SGA and really that's fair, they can be. I'm just sad they're disenchanted with it. Especially Synocdochic. She's a good author. But life always progresses. If you stop, you die.
On another, but related note. I haven't heard one person say they liked the first half of S3 of Quite frankly I cannot understand that AT ALL. OMG I love that arc soooo much, it's not even funny. I mean yeah the cop was a total bitch and House was a complete ass but I felt it was so very very in character and best of all. It was HUMAN. Haven't you ever just completely fucked yourself over by being spiteful? I have, a LOT. But, dude, I bet it was so worth it at the time, even if the consequences were disastrous. House is not a nice man. He's a good man, he's an effective man, he's a smart man. But in no sense of the word could he be considered nice. So to see him be so stupid and stubborn and just a complete ass to the cop and everyone around him (even and especially when they're trying to help) was just so ON. I think it gives him way more depth as a character, personally season 2 felt a little stale to me at times. Everyone else seemed to grow, Chase, Cameron, Wilson, Cuddy, but House was House and that was that. S3 totally blew that out of the water.
Also some people complained about how in S1 and 2 they presented House not as an addict but as just dependent on the drugs to stay pain free. MY ASS. He said that over and over and when he made the bet with Cuddy about going off it for a week and BROKE HIS OWN FINGER. Right, who in their right mind does that? House is pig headed and stubborn as...a really stubborn thing but he is, was and always will be an addict, albeit a completely functional one.
I really love that whole arc but to alleviate some fears, s4 is supposed to be back in the same mold as s1 and 2 for all you people who didn't like s3.