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Jun. 3rd, 2018 08:58 pm1. Over time, I've discovered that the secret to entering a fandom, is to find the right online community for you. I always have to try numerous places before I find the right fit. With Buffy? I tried Buffy Cross and Stake, Spoiler Slayer, BAPS, Teaattheford, Slayage, Sunnydale University, Bronze Beta/Whedonesque, Angel Souls Board, before finally landing on ATPOBTVS by accident, a poster on Buffy Cross and Stake asked permission to transfer a post to ATOPBTVS. I checked it out for a bit, lurking and commenting here and there. And realized it was the right fit, less spoilers and as a result, a lot less drama, older demographic, and more academic. Also broader focus and far more interested in analyzing the series, the characters, etc on a more intellectual level. Less fanfic and vids posted, and not as many shippers. There were shippers but not as many as other boards. It was also a smaller board, with a lot less posts.
So I jumped over and more or less announced to Buffy Cross and Stake (as politely as possible) that I'd had it with the spoilers, the kerfuffles, and their craziness, and was jumping full time to ATPO Board for my own sanity such as it was at the time. Several people followed me. (I think cjl did, and a few others.) You can thank or blame Yoda for that.
Now, doing it again with another fandom. I tried a crazy FB board with lots of drama and tons of crazy posts. Ended up jumping off of it. Not quite sure how it happened. One day I had access, the next I didn't. And couldn't get back on. So gave up and joined another board. Which was a lot nicer and the administrators were better and more involved. It has reliable spoilers. Fun games. And no prima donas. Also the administrators heavily monitor it. Secret to a good fanboard is a well monitored, smaller fanboard.
I have no patience for drama on fanboards. Less than zero patience for character wars or shipper wars. People have a right to their opinion and I have the right to ignore them. At the end of the day, the only people who know who will end up with who are the writers. The fans should have zero effect over this decision. If they don't like how a ship turns out or hate a character that the writers love? Tough boogies. Go watch something else.
Anywho, I think I found a really good board finally. Only took several years. No one here follows the show that I was hunting a fan board for, so it's not worth mentioning.
2. I'm in another reading slump. Thinking of reading my paper back of Ursula Le Quinn's Left Hand of Darkness for a sci-fi book club that meets on June 17 or thereabouts. But we shall see. I'm not really in the mood for it. Le Quinn is sort of preachy and very thematic in tone. Characters aren't really her thing. She's sort of the sci-fi equivalent of Atwood. I sort of prefer CJ Cherryh to be honest.
I know, blasphemy, but there it is.
Weirdly I have changed my tastes since I was a kid reading this stuff. I loved Anne McCaffrey as a teen in the 1970s and 80s. Now I can't read her at all. Her writing style and perspective irritates me. While as a kid, all I saw where the cool dragons and the ships, I sort of ignored everything else. Also can't stand CS Lewis, while when I was 10, I adored CW Lewis. Life is interesting.
3. Wyonna Earp S2 is coming to Netflix, it's not there yet, dang it. It will probably premier at the same time as Wyonna Earp S3 does on Syfy. Which means taping S3, while binging S2 on netflix. Also Sense 8 Finale is set to premier middle of June and Whedon's finale take on Buffy is set to happen around June 20th or thereabouts.
4. Dang it, Fox's X-men Dark Phoenix, which I've been anticipating for a while now, is being retooled due to Disney's buyout of Fox's properties. The Disney takeover of Fox reminds me of EBSCO's take over of Wilson, which I'd told Wilson would most likely happen about a year before I quit. Basically they gutted Fox. Taking the intellectual property, but leaving behind the television station (can't take that already have ABC) and the news/sports media (also already have that). They get the movie studio -- but mainly the properties not the studio, which will shut down. Which is exactly what happened with Wilson when EBSCO took it over -- they gutted the company. Took all the intellectual property -- rights to the indexes, content, etc, but not the building, not the employees, not the printing press.
Anywho, apparently Marvel has made it clear that Dark Phoenix is the last X-men property produced by Fox and they have no interest in continuing with that timeline or any of the actors or crew etc from that series. They plan to reboot it entirely. Damn.
I'm hoping this doesn't destroy the movie. Although apparently all they are asking is that they tighten the movie up a bit, and don't leave the audience hanging. Because there is not going to be a sequel. Damn it. I want a three movie arc. That's a huge story. It deserves a three movie arc. Ugh.
I do agree that the X-men of the Marvel Properties is the hardest to do well, because it is ensemble, it is about a team. And that lends itself towards television more than film. The greatest flaw in the X-men films is the overemphasis on certain characters: Wolverine, Xavier and Magneto, to the detriment of everyone else. Core characters such as Beast, Jean Grey, Iceman, Cyclops, Rogue, Shadowkat, Gambit, Storm, Havok, Angel, Colussus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, and Psyolock have gotten overlooked as a result. Also they've overlooked some of the less pretty of the mutants, and the whole thematic arc of the series. My favorite characters weren't Xavier, Magneto, Mystique and Wolverine, when I was reading the books. In fact to a degree only Logan was in most of them, the other two kept disappearing from the verse. The films have focused oddly on the characters I liked but wasn't fannish about, with the possible exception of Logan and Magneto. Mystigue was interesting but I was ambivalent about. Also I didn't read nor care that much about the Avengers. I read a couple of issues, but not many. I read more of Spiderman actually. I like underdog characters. The Fantastic Four I had similar issues with, although I did read a few of their issues as well.
Although to be fair, it's hard to care that much. I got to read it. The story worked. It has flaws and is really sexist and dated in places, which may cause them issues with the filming of it. Some things that worked in the 1980s and 1990s, really don't work now.
So I jumped over and more or less announced to Buffy Cross and Stake (as politely as possible) that I'd had it with the spoilers, the kerfuffles, and their craziness, and was jumping full time to ATPO Board for my own sanity such as it was at the time. Several people followed me. (I think cjl did, and a few others.) You can thank or blame Yoda for that.
Now, doing it again with another fandom. I tried a crazy FB board with lots of drama and tons of crazy posts. Ended up jumping off of it. Not quite sure how it happened. One day I had access, the next I didn't. And couldn't get back on. So gave up and joined another board. Which was a lot nicer and the administrators were better and more involved. It has reliable spoilers. Fun games. And no prima donas. Also the administrators heavily monitor it. Secret to a good fanboard is a well monitored, smaller fanboard.
I have no patience for drama on fanboards. Less than zero patience for character wars or shipper wars. People have a right to their opinion and I have the right to ignore them. At the end of the day, the only people who know who will end up with who are the writers. The fans should have zero effect over this decision. If they don't like how a ship turns out or hate a character that the writers love? Tough boogies. Go watch something else.
Anywho, I think I found a really good board finally. Only took several years. No one here follows the show that I was hunting a fan board for, so it's not worth mentioning.
2. I'm in another reading slump. Thinking of reading my paper back of Ursula Le Quinn's Left Hand of Darkness for a sci-fi book club that meets on June 17 or thereabouts. But we shall see. I'm not really in the mood for it. Le Quinn is sort of preachy and very thematic in tone. Characters aren't really her thing. She's sort of the sci-fi equivalent of Atwood. I sort of prefer CJ Cherryh to be honest.
I know, blasphemy, but there it is.
Weirdly I have changed my tastes since I was a kid reading this stuff. I loved Anne McCaffrey as a teen in the 1970s and 80s. Now I can't read her at all. Her writing style and perspective irritates me. While as a kid, all I saw where the cool dragons and the ships, I sort of ignored everything else. Also can't stand CS Lewis, while when I was 10, I adored CW Lewis. Life is interesting.
3. Wyonna Earp S2 is coming to Netflix, it's not there yet, dang it. It will probably premier at the same time as Wyonna Earp S3 does on Syfy. Which means taping S3, while binging S2 on netflix. Also Sense 8 Finale is set to premier middle of June and Whedon's finale take on Buffy is set to happen around June 20th or thereabouts.
4. Dang it, Fox's X-men Dark Phoenix, which I've been anticipating for a while now, is being retooled due to Disney's buyout of Fox's properties. The Disney takeover of Fox reminds me of EBSCO's take over of Wilson, which I'd told Wilson would most likely happen about a year before I quit. Basically they gutted Fox. Taking the intellectual property, but leaving behind the television station (can't take that already have ABC) and the news/sports media (also already have that). They get the movie studio -- but mainly the properties not the studio, which will shut down. Which is exactly what happened with Wilson when EBSCO took it over -- they gutted the company. Took all the intellectual property -- rights to the indexes, content, etc, but not the building, not the employees, not the printing press.
Anywho, apparently Marvel has made it clear that Dark Phoenix is the last X-men property produced by Fox and they have no interest in continuing with that timeline or any of the actors or crew etc from that series. They plan to reboot it entirely. Damn.
I'm hoping this doesn't destroy the movie. Although apparently all they are asking is that they tighten the movie up a bit, and don't leave the audience hanging. Because there is not going to be a sequel. Damn it. I want a three movie arc. That's a huge story. It deserves a three movie arc. Ugh.
I do agree that the X-men of the Marvel Properties is the hardest to do well, because it is ensemble, it is about a team. And that lends itself towards television more than film. The greatest flaw in the X-men films is the overemphasis on certain characters: Wolverine, Xavier and Magneto, to the detriment of everyone else. Core characters such as Beast, Jean Grey, Iceman, Cyclops, Rogue, Shadowkat, Gambit, Storm, Havok, Angel, Colussus, Nightcrawler, Emma Frost, and Psyolock have gotten overlooked as a result. Also they've overlooked some of the less pretty of the mutants, and the whole thematic arc of the series. My favorite characters weren't Xavier, Magneto, Mystique and Wolverine, when I was reading the books. In fact to a degree only Logan was in most of them, the other two kept disappearing from the verse. The films have focused oddly on the characters I liked but wasn't fannish about, with the possible exception of Logan and Magneto. Mystigue was interesting but I was ambivalent about. Also I didn't read nor care that much about the Avengers. I read a couple of issues, but not many. I read more of Spiderman actually. I like underdog characters. The Fantastic Four I had similar issues with, although I did read a few of their issues as well.
Although to be fair, it's hard to care that much. I got to read it. The story worked. It has flaws and is really sexist and dated in places, which may cause them issues with the filming of it. Some things that worked in the 1980s and 1990s, really don't work now.