Comments | eandh99: just speculating about fandom supernova

eandh99

just speculating about fandom supernova

Jul 20, 2009 13:42

Will the Torchwood fandom stay together until Comic Con this weekend? If it does manage not to splinter into hostile factions until then, will the TW panel be the last straw? In a sick way I'm finding this fascinating. Other fandoms I've been in, there's been a more consistent reaction to seeing our show cliffed (because this is far beyond ( Read more... )

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haldane July 20 2009, 21:07:54 UTC

I hold the opinion that CoE was a piece of the subset of fanfic that is not fanfic at all, but lazy original fiction.

It *starts* with a recognisable set-up, to save having to do all those boring character descriptions and back stories, but then wanders off into territory that has no relationship to the original show. CoE's spiritual home is not BBC1, but FF.net.

Torchwood is dead; long live Torchwood.

eandh99 July 20 2009, 21:09:58 UTC

Oh yeah, I'm with you on the bad-AU side. But it's like watching the classic-Who vs nu-Who wars starting at the moment.

haldane July 20 2009, 22:11:17 UTC

I left the House fandom when the old-fellows vs new-fellows got to be too much. I don't see nearly as much of the old vs new in the Who-verse; it must be the comms I hang around on.

I actualy started in the entire fanfic reading/writing/forum business via the Sherlock Holmes universe, where there *are* quite a few minor ships, but nobody tries to argue against H/W as the core of the whole thing.

The shipwars thing I find rather upsetting, particularly when it gets to the personal insult stage. So far the worst fighting I've seen is the Jack/Ianto vs Jack/Anybody-but-Ianto split in Torchwood.

jhava July 20 2009, 21:23:46 UTC

And if there are that many folks who've just been dying for Torchwood to make itself into "serious quality drama" by turning into Spooks-with-aliens, then good luck to them with their new fan community, which will not include me.

That sums up my thoughts rather nicely indeed. Thank you.

tencrush July 21 2009, 05:32:35 UTC

Are the pro-CoE folks really holding onto the belief that there will be more Torchwood and that it will be recognizable and likeable to the folks who've been watching up to this point?
From what I've read around and about, most of the pro-CoE folks actually believed that this was the end. Which is why they thought it went out with a bang/had a beautiful swansong etc. One of the reasons I hate it as much as I do, is because I think it's a cheap and nasty setup to ditch what RTD didn't want to keep and go on.