Comments | kimarama: Sci-Fi Brouhaha at Entertainment Weekly

kimarama

Sci-Fi Brouhaha at Entertainment Weekly

May 07, 2007 14:35

Entertainment Weekly posted their take on the Top 25 Sci-Fi Movies from the past 25 years. All in all, it's not a bad list but, like with any "Best of", is fairly subjective. EW in their innocence eagerness to do the best reporting possible, asked for reader feedback, prompting a firestorm for the ( omission of... )

best of lists, farscape

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briary_flower May 7 2007, 21:46:22 UTC

Whenever people get all het up about Farscape I'm always suspicious, because in the beginning there were like, five people watching, and everybody else was all, Muppets?! I'm not watching a show with MUPPETS!!!

Who's EW trying to kid leaving Empire of the list?

kimarama May 8 2007, 13:19:38 UTC

I never watched Farscape when it was on during prime time (or whatever) because I didn't have cable! I only subscribed to cable in the last 5 years or so. By that time, it was already over-ish and I had to catch up on DVD. However, I'm inclined to think that any introduction to Farscape is a good introduction to Farscape.

re: the Empire Strikes Back, it's too old. It was released in 1980, making it 27 years old - two years past the 25 year maximum.

briary_flower May 8 2007, 19:19:32 UTC

You're right, you're right. I dunno - I guess I just have this kneejerk snobbery about "new" fans. Like, recently there was a huge article about Buffy in the Toronto Star, with a couple of pop culture "experts" debating ... God, I don't know.

Why Buffy still slays us

One of the experts, Malene Arpe, is on the Space Channel every time I turn it on, being an expert on the portrayal of women in science fiction or something. But in the article she says, "I was a latecomer to Buffy and didn't catch up until somewhere around the beginning of Season 6 via DVDs and reruns. " And I read that and thought, You mean you're a *sneers* 'shipper, not a Buffy fan. And sure enough, two seconds later she says, "Besides, Season 6 has all that illicit Spike sex ( ... )

kimarama May 9 2007, 14:12:32 UTC

I totally hear what you're saying. I had the same thing back in college over bands. I'd discover a cool indy band and listen to them until they got famous (REM, anyone?) and then be all "Where the heck were you people back during the Murmur days?" Actually, I still listened to REM I was just really snooty about it. So I totally understand where you're coming from.

Then, my friend, L, who was even more of a music snob than me, sat me down and told me that REM wasn't about me, it was about them and did I want them to have to play crappy venues their entire career and didn't I want them to make some money and get some recognition for their art, and be able to stay somewhere other than a youth hostel when they traveled, etc?

However, I am sooooooooo with you about fangirls. I can't reconcile them either. In fact, rubykatewriting just had a post about all the annoying GG fangirls who hate Rory for a variety of insane fangirl reasons and I just want to shake them and say "it's not about you, dumbshit!" I guess as long as there are hot guys on ( ... )

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