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serizawa3000(NOTE: this entry is culled from an entry in my livejournal, and is almost a year old... Also, let it be known that my favorite TV show is about a guy trapped in space, forced to watch bad movies as some kind of scientific experiment. I wonder if this means the audience at home is the control group, but anyway.)
There's something from one of Neil Gaiman's stories ("The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories") that keeps coming to mind, because things. And stuff. The story's nameless narrator is an English writer who is asked to do up a film treatment of his bestselling novel for some Hollywood suits. Hilarity ensues. At one point, the writer, maybe a little fed up with how things have been going, says "It's like ordering a pizza and complaining when it arrives because it's round, flat, and covered in tomato sauce and cheese."
That notion has been on my mind in response to things... most recently how people--self-professed fans, mind--have been complaining about the metaphorical pizza they ordered, be it comics, movies, TV, what have you.
Most recent example? Surprise surprise, how my favorite TV show in the whole world (Mystery Science Theater 3000. No, really. It's up there with Star Trek, The X Files, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, and... Dinosaurs.) has brand spanking new episodes (which I CAN'T EVEN WATCH BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE NETFLIX, WHICH ECHOES HOW I WASN'T ABLE TO WATCH MST3K FOR YEARS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE CABLE AND BY THE TIME WE FINALLY GOT CABLE COMEDY CENTRAL WENT AND CANCELED THE SHOW), and the fans who were willing and able to fund the Kickstarter (I was willing but unable) are now... biting the hand that feeds, as it were. To the point where on a community page someone put forth the question "What don't you like about the new episodes?" and the floodgates opened.
I observe this, but I keep shtum.
There was a Godzilla fan community I finally left without preamble or fanfare because people kept slagging on unused designs by William Stout (one of my favorite artists. He's been around forever. Great dinosaur art. Worked on Return of the Living Dead and Conan the Barbarian and Masters of the Universe, among others. Greg Nicotero said of him "He's a very nice man.") for an American Godzilla movie that NEVER GOT MADE.
I keep thinking of piping up with "I don't like this pizza. It's round and flat and covered in tomato sauce and cheese" but I figure my common sense (such as it is) prevails over my chutzpah (virtually nonexistent).
Because while I am a fan, I try not to get all explodey about the things I am a fan of. I used to be that way, but not anymore.
(Also because there's no app that allows you to bitch-slap trolls right through the screen. Yet.)
So... yeah.
*Pushes the button*
I remember when the only thing a MSTie had to worry about was Roger Corman's fanbase...
POSTSCRIPT: Not having Netflix is kind of moot, because LO! Season Eleven of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is now out on DVD and BluRay. Only had to wait about a year. Thanks, Shout!Factory!
There's something from one of Neil Gaiman's stories ("The Goldfish Pool and Other Stories") that keeps coming to mind, because things. And stuff. The story's nameless narrator is an English writer who is asked to do up a film treatment of his bestselling novel for some Hollywood suits. Hilarity ensues. At one point, the writer, maybe a little fed up with how things have been going, says "It's like ordering a pizza and complaining when it arrives because it's round, flat, and covered in tomato sauce and cheese."
That notion has been on my mind in response to things... most recently how people--self-professed fans, mind--have been complaining about the metaphorical pizza they ordered, be it comics, movies, TV, what have you.
Most recent example? Surprise surprise, how my favorite TV show in the whole world (Mystery Science Theater 3000. No, really. It's up there with Star Trek, The X Files, Pushing Daisies, Hannibal, and... Dinosaurs.) has brand spanking new episodes (which I CAN'T EVEN WATCH BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE NETFLIX, WHICH ECHOES HOW I WASN'T ABLE TO WATCH MST3K FOR YEARS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE CABLE AND BY THE TIME WE FINALLY GOT CABLE COMEDY CENTRAL WENT AND CANCELED THE SHOW), and the fans who were willing and able to fund the Kickstarter (I was willing but unable) are now... biting the hand that feeds, as it were. To the point where on a community page someone put forth the question "What don't you like about the new episodes?" and the floodgates opened.
I observe this, but I keep shtum.
There was a Godzilla fan community I finally left without preamble or fanfare because people kept slagging on unused designs by William Stout (one of my favorite artists. He's been around forever. Great dinosaur art. Worked on Return of the Living Dead and Conan the Barbarian and Masters of the Universe, among others. Greg Nicotero said of him "He's a very nice man.") for an American Godzilla movie that NEVER GOT MADE.
I keep thinking of piping up with "I don't like this pizza. It's round and flat and covered in tomato sauce and cheese" but I figure my common sense (such as it is) prevails over my chutzpah (virtually nonexistent).
Because while I am a fan, I try not to get all explodey about the things I am a fan of. I used to be that way, but not anymore.
(Also because there's no app that allows you to bitch-slap trolls right through the screen. Yet.)
So... yeah.
*Pushes the button*
I remember when the only thing a MSTie had to worry about was Roger Corman's fanbase...
POSTSCRIPT: Not having Netflix is kind of moot, because LO! Season Eleven of Mystery Science Theater 3000 is now out on DVD and BluRay. Only had to wait about a year. Thanks, Shout!Factory!
