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shadowkatI was discussing this with folks on FB. They were claiming that the finale of Buffy, Chosen, wasn't that controversial. Oh yes, it was. I can probably hunt down the posts and fights in my journal regarding that episode, if I really wanted to.
But, the big difference between Chosen, BSG, and Lost finales and Game of Thrones is well...the advances in technology and improvements not to mention creation of various internet platforms since 2003 (Chosen), 2009 (Battlestar Galatica) and 2010 (Lost)...since then, Twitter was created in 2006, Facebook in 2004, made accessible to all roughly in 2008, Tumblr more recent, Youtube started roughly in 2005, and took off with reviews and everything much later.
While the first smartphone was in 1992, the iphone didn't launch until 2007 and wasn't accessible to most people until then.
When I was discussing and playing about in the Buffy, BSG, Firefly, and Lost fandoms, we didn't have the internet that we have now. Facebook was not that accessible and there weren't many fan pages on it, Twitter had just started and was like FB limited in characters and usage, Youtube -- people didn't visit it that much and didn't have the capability to post videos to it -- since they didn't have smart phones that could do live video feeds or web cameras on their computers back then -- unless they spent a lot of money or went out of their way to get them. It wasn't quite as prevalent as it is now or accessible.
If you look at and compare the fan reactions to say Buffy, Angel, Lost, Battlestar Galatica and Game of Thrones -- you'll note how much the internet and the accessibility to certain platforms and technology affects things.
Now, in this day and age, a fan can do a lot of things they couldn't years prior. Farscape fans had to work a lot harder to get a movie for Farscape than Lucifer or Sense8 fans did, because they didn't have the same internet that we do now. There was no twitter or petition sites, they had to do it the old fashioned way, with a write in campaign.
Things we can do now in fandom that we couldn't do before:
1. Post video reviews on Youtube
2. Create a site with audio and video reviews of comic books or other works, get advertising, and make lots of money off of the hits
3. Set up petitions to save shows
4. Do a crowd-sourcing site to collect money to get a movie made
5. Coordinate role playing games with graphics among over a million fans worldwide instantly
6. Share fanfic with people globally and do it instantly.
7. Post rants about television series endings to sites reaching billions of people instantly, and have them go viral
8. Share fan art with millions in an instant
9. Stalk television actors and show-runners online and drive them insane
10. Share footage of convention Q&As, musical concerts, etc from various television, movie actors, writers, etc -- without their knowledge or permission.
11. Share television shows, re-edit television shows and news footage, photo-shop images, etc... on the internet.
12. Share music videos, songs, etc instantly
13. Share raw footage, dailies, cast readings, etc from television shows and movies on the internet
14. Self-publish books, music, movies, television series on the internet with no go-between
If you think about the things people can do on the internet now that they couldn't do just five years ago..it will blow your mind.
Also, if you think about it -- how television, film, music, etc is being distributed now is mind-blowing. If I miss a television show or broadcast -- I can see it again. It's not lost. Time was that if you missed a television broadcast, you'd have to wait for reruns, pray someone taped it and could send it to you, or live without it.
When I was watching Buffy in the 1990s and early 00s, I was taping on VHS, and didn't see any shows opposite it. Also if I forgot to tape, if I missed it, or if the show just got preempted, I was out of luck. I'd have to wait for a rerun.
DVDs didn't pop up until roughly 2000. I didn't get a DVD player until 2003 or 2004.
And I certainly didn't access to streaming until much much later. We did file sharing on the net, but it often crashed the computer -- the files were too big for the band-width, or it had viruses.
I watched a you-tube video of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston singing "Say a Little Prayer for Me" after watching Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and Rupert Evert do the same. Then I flipped to a video of the reading of the Game of Thrones script and seeing the cast's initial reactions to that reading. You couldn't do that ten years ago. I also watched footage, raw footage of actors filming a scene from a television series -- the dailies, the bits not seen on screen. People can post whatever they want on the internet and no one will know it.
If you consider that it wasn't that long ago that none of this was possible, that a lot this was and still is considered a serious infringement of intellectual property rights...it will blow your mind.
But, the big difference between Chosen, BSG, and Lost finales and Game of Thrones is well...the advances in technology and improvements not to mention creation of various internet platforms since 2003 (Chosen), 2009 (Battlestar Galatica) and 2010 (Lost)...since then, Twitter was created in 2006, Facebook in 2004, made accessible to all roughly in 2008, Tumblr more recent, Youtube started roughly in 2005, and took off with reviews and everything much later.
While the first smartphone was in 1992, the iphone didn't launch until 2007 and wasn't accessible to most people until then.
When I was discussing and playing about in the Buffy, BSG, Firefly, and Lost fandoms, we didn't have the internet that we have now. Facebook was not that accessible and there weren't many fan pages on it, Twitter had just started and was like FB limited in characters and usage, Youtube -- people didn't visit it that much and didn't have the capability to post videos to it -- since they didn't have smart phones that could do live video feeds or web cameras on their computers back then -- unless they spent a lot of money or went out of their way to get them. It wasn't quite as prevalent as it is now or accessible.
If you look at and compare the fan reactions to say Buffy, Angel, Lost, Battlestar Galatica and Game of Thrones -- you'll note how much the internet and the accessibility to certain platforms and technology affects things.
Now, in this day and age, a fan can do a lot of things they couldn't years prior. Farscape fans had to work a lot harder to get a movie for Farscape than Lucifer or Sense8 fans did, because they didn't have the same internet that we do now. There was no twitter or petition sites, they had to do it the old fashioned way, with a write in campaign.
Things we can do now in fandom that we couldn't do before:
1. Post video reviews on Youtube
2. Create a site with audio and video reviews of comic books or other works, get advertising, and make lots of money off of the hits
3. Set up petitions to save shows
4. Do a crowd-sourcing site to collect money to get a movie made
5. Coordinate role playing games with graphics among over a million fans worldwide instantly
6. Share fanfic with people globally and do it instantly.
7. Post rants about television series endings to sites reaching billions of people instantly, and have them go viral
8. Share fan art with millions in an instant
9. Stalk television actors and show-runners online and drive them insane
10. Share footage of convention Q&As, musical concerts, etc from various television, movie actors, writers, etc -- without their knowledge or permission.
11. Share television shows, re-edit television shows and news footage, photo-shop images, etc... on the internet.
12. Share music videos, songs, etc instantly
13. Share raw footage, dailies, cast readings, etc from television shows and movies on the internet
14. Self-publish books, music, movies, television series on the internet with no go-between
If you think about the things people can do on the internet now that they couldn't do just five years ago..it will blow your mind.
Also, if you think about it -- how television, film, music, etc is being distributed now is mind-blowing. If I miss a television show or broadcast -- I can see it again. It's not lost. Time was that if you missed a television broadcast, you'd have to wait for reruns, pray someone taped it and could send it to you, or live without it.
When I was watching Buffy in the 1990s and early 00s, I was taping on VHS, and didn't see any shows opposite it. Also if I forgot to tape, if I missed it, or if the show just got preempted, I was out of luck. I'd have to wait for a rerun.
DVDs didn't pop up until roughly 2000. I didn't get a DVD player until 2003 or 2004.
And I certainly didn't access to streaming until much much later. We did file sharing on the net, but it often crashed the computer -- the files were too big for the band-width, or it had viruses.
I watched a you-tube video of Natalie Cole and Whitney Houston singing "Say a Little Prayer for Me" after watching Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and Rupert Evert do the same. Then I flipped to a video of the reading of the Game of Thrones script and seeing the cast's initial reactions to that reading. You couldn't do that ten years ago. I also watched footage, raw footage of actors filming a scene from a television series -- the dailies, the bits not seen on screen. People can post whatever they want on the internet and no one will know it.
If you consider that it wasn't that long ago that none of this was possible, that a lot this was and still is considered a serious infringement of intellectual property rights...it will blow your mind.
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Date: 2019-05-29 04:38 pm (UTC)Thank you for chiming in. ;-)