I think I do but I'm not sure. Do you mean that in your opinion, repetition and "sameness" in movies are more tolerable than with series tv?
Yes, exactly.
So you mean don't complain about what the show isn't, just save that for fiction?
Oh goodness me no, I think I might have been referring to specific instances that I have experienced with people to be honest. I complain about things in my shows all the time, what I don't do is decide how the show should move and what direction a character/plot should take or I am taking my ball home with me and not playing again. Things like "If they kill off Amy and Rory I am *never* watching Doctor Who again! Or "Oh they're killing Ianto, I will *never* watch Torchwood again!" or with Buffy in mind, those who announce what they expect from a coming season and when it doesn't happen they throw a hissy fit...
... I mean anyone can stop watching a show for whatever reason they want, but sometimes the "stand" they are taking is so frigging subjective and meaningless [no one on the production or the actors sodding care if one fan stops watching for any reason and yet those fans often announce it as tho they would] I ask myself well are they really fans or not? Cos honestly they're not fans then imho. Imposing what you want before seeing/reading from a book, a show, whatever, is never gonna work out well.
I knew someone who never watched Buffy after the episode and scene where he offered himself up to Buffy for a beating so she wouldn't go and hand herself in for a murder she thought she had committed... See I *love* Doctor Who, The Doctor is my absolute favourite character ever and yet I can say [and wanted to to her when she said it] that she is way, way, way waaaaay too involved with the fictional character of Spike then, if him getting mistreated is enough to *never* watch the show again... Umm no, that's just way too much investment imo. And I wanna go:
For the most part I'd say yes to that; with BtVS for example I'm more interested, in my non-fiction writing and in the way I think about the show, in what it is and what's in front of me than what it isn't. But then I've ranted at length about the comics and how I disliked them.
Those comics were/are sodding awful, with a capital S. Just sayin' lol Joss is on crack or something cos shesh...
I think we're all entitled to dislike what we dislike or call out problems and issues.
Hell yeah, plot holes and the such, of course.
But then it seems like for some people, complaining is ALL the pleasure they get out of it, so why are those people fans to begin with? I've seen people on the internet bitch about the character Lily in How I Met Your Mother - really BITCH about how awful she is for leaving Marshall seven or more seasons ago. He forgave her a long time ago, so move on folks. Let it go and put your energies into something more positive.
Oh god YES. This.
I do not get people who watch a show every time it airs and then bitch and bleat on what was wrong with it... In fact it really bugs me.
It happens in the Who fandom a *lot* and is usually old Who fans (Who ran from 1966 to 1989 when it went into hiatus, a movie in 1996 and then returned in series form in 2005, I know right, long hiatus lol... The old Who fans more often than not do nothing but complain about the new incarnation of the show and it drives me mental. It's never going to be how it used to be, it got put on hiatus cos of how it was, it had to change and now it did and you hate everything about it, why do you even watch it? I have said in the past to these types, god stop watching it! You apparently hate everything about the show, plots, characters, all of it, why watch it then bore the real fans half to death about all that is wrong with it? *sigh*
It happened on a Dexter comm I was on too, *all* people posted there were complaints about the current season and what was wrong with it... Ffs stop watching it, this is a FAN comm and yeah we can moan but it is *all* you do about the show, why am I here??
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Yes, exactly.
So you mean don't complain about what the show isn't, just save that for fiction?
Oh goodness me no, I think I might have been referring to specific instances that I have experienced with people to be honest. I complain about things in my shows all the time, what I don't do is decide how the show should move and what direction a character/plot should take or I am taking my ball home with me and not playing again. Things like "If they kill off Amy and Rory I am *never* watching Doctor Who again! Or "Oh they're killing Ianto, I will *never* watch Torchwood again!" or with Buffy in mind, those who announce what they expect from a coming season and when it doesn't happen they throw a hissy fit...
... I mean anyone can stop watching a show for whatever reason they want, but sometimes the "stand" they are taking is so frigging subjective and meaningless [no one on the production or the actors sodding care if one fan stops watching for any reason and yet those fans often announce it as tho they would] I ask myself well are they really fans or not? Cos honestly they're not fans then imho. Imposing what you want before seeing/reading from a book, a show, whatever, is never gonna work out well.
I knew someone who never watched Buffy after the episode and scene where he offered himself up to Buffy for a beating so she wouldn't go and hand herself in for a murder she thought she had committed... See I *love* Doctor Who, The Doctor is my absolute favourite character ever and yet I can say [and wanted to to her when she said it] that she is way, way, way waaaaay too involved with the fictional character of Spike then, if him getting mistreated is enough to *never* watch the show again... Umm no, that's just way too much investment imo. And I wanna go:
For the most part I'd say yes to that; with BtVS for example I'm more interested, in my non-fiction writing and in the way I think about the show, in what it is and what's in front of me than what it isn't. But then I've ranted at length about the comics and how I disliked them.
Those comics were/are sodding awful, with a capital S. Just sayin' lol Joss is on crack or something cos shesh...
I think we're all entitled to dislike what we dislike or call out problems and issues.
Hell yeah, plot holes and the such, of course.
But then it seems like for some people, complaining is ALL the pleasure they get out of it, so why are those people fans to begin with? I've seen people on the internet bitch about the character Lily in How I Met Your Mother - really BITCH about how awful she is for leaving Marshall seven or more seasons ago. He forgave her a long time ago, so move on folks. Let it go and put your energies into something more positive.
Oh god YES. This.
I do not get people who watch a show every time it airs and then bitch and bleat on what was wrong with it... In fact it really bugs me.
It happens in the Who fandom a *lot* and is usually old Who fans (Who ran from 1966 to 1989 when it went into hiatus, a movie in 1996 and then returned in series form in 2005, I know right, long hiatus lol... The old Who fans more often than not do nothing but complain about the new incarnation of the show and it drives me mental. It's never going to be how it used to be, it got put on hiatus cos of how it was, it had to change and now it did and you hate everything about it, why do you even watch it? I have said in the past to these types, god stop watching it! You apparently hate everything about the show, plots, characters, all of it, why watch it then bore the real fans half to death about all that is wrong with it? *sigh*
It happened on a Dexter comm I was on too, *all* people posted there were complaints about the current season and what was wrong with it... Ffs stop watching it, this is a FAN comm and yeah we can moan but it is *all* you do about the show, why am I here??
Fandom huh, it never works out well lol