7 Question Curiousity Poll on New TV Shows, Book REC's and Buffy Comics

[shadowkat]

This is a rough poll - because I'm curious. Tried to add categories for Music that you'd recommend and movies - but there are too many and I'm sadly out of the loop on what is good and what isn't at the moment. Also tried to do a rec list for the tv shows...to see what everyone was watching, but ran out of ticky boxes - so chose not to. If you are so inclined feel free to include "music" and "movie" recs in the comments, along with book and comic book rec's. If not, that's fine too. Please be respectful of other's opinions, even if they seem like insane troll logic. No bashing of people. Also keep in mind it is impossible to edit polls and I'm always going to leave something out. Oh and if you don't know what to answer for a question? Just skip it. I certainly will. Thanks!

Hope more than ten people do this. Always tricky doing polls.

[ETA: Sigh. I don't know where my brain's been lately - no, wait, at work in stress hell..that's where. Re-read the poll and somehow I left off Nikita and No Ordinary Family (two shows I actually watch, and one, Nikita - that I actually adore - even more than Terriers). I also put Mr. Carrol instead of Mr. Norrel for the Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel book option. Sorry about that. Brain is deleting entertainment files as we speak to make room for new database info.]


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Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I have too many books to read. ;-) (My kindle has Game-Change, The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo, Hunger Games, and samples of Guards!Guards! and The PAssage. And this is not including all the paperback and hard back books I own. But does this stop me from getting more, no.)

Oh and BTW, you clearly got WAY more than 10 responders on your poll! Everyone loves a poll, it doesn't matter if you leave out a show or two, it is just fun to respond to a poll.

Thanks. But leaving Nikita out bugged me. Since I actually love that show and would have been interested to see how many others actually watch it. So far Sherlock is winning, with Walking Dead and Terriers in a dead heat - which is interesting.

I'm hoping for 100. That's the most I've ever received.

Right now - I'm finding the book recs the most interesting in the comments. Some really good book recs. And good direction on where to start with Prachett.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Well, as popular as Pratchett is, I'm not sure you'll ever enjoy him: he always does that footnote thing that you hate in his books (you don't NEED to read them since they are usually a silly pun or something that isn't necessary to the story, but his fans love it...).

Good luck on getting to 100!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Well, got to the 50 mark. What I'm interested in - in regards to the poll is how many dislike the comics, how many don't. And I need a lot of people to respond to know that. Which is highly unlikely. Most of my flist didn't take the poll. The vast majority of respondents are people who came from elsewhere.

So far? 50% dislike the things, 25% are ambivalent and 18% like the things. IF this was a tv show - it would have been canceled.
But comics can survive a long time with a weak readership.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Well comics do have a lower bar than TV shows (no one really expects 10s of millions to be reading them... ) so you're right: they can survive for a long time with a weak readership... but also: most of the ambivalent and some of those who dislike the comics are still buying them (so the publisher considers that as all good... unless or until the sales drop dramatically). In your next poll you should ask how many are actually still spending $ on them.

BTW I wanted to thank you again (I know I thanked you years ago) for that wonderful knit hat you made, it is so soft and warm in the horrid frigid temperatures we've had lately!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

most of the ambivalent and some of those who dislike the comics are still buying them (so the publisher considers that as all good... unless or until the sales drop dramatically). In your next poll you should ask how many are actually still spending $ on them.

As far as I know - I appear to be the only one who is buying them and dislikes the things. Everyone else is downloading them illegally online via file sharing. LOL!! OR sending them to each other. Even some of the people who actually like them.

So it's hard to know how many are buying and how many aren't. I know subscriptions went down - because people in the Midwest and outlying areas, such as Lincoln, Nebraska, can't find them anywhere and their stores stopped carrying them due to the weak readership. Places like NYC and London - not a problem.
According to stats - there was 50,000 to begin with and that's dropped. That's out of approximately 6 million who watched the series. So it's a small number. But to a small house like DH which barely sells, 50,000 is a lot. And Buffy is still in the top 40 or so.

I'm more curious to see what happens with the readership in S9, after it's clear that Whedon isn't writing the things and only lending his name and a loose plot. A lot of people seem to be in denial on that one. But Whedon made that clear in interviews and at comiccon. That he was busy elsewhere. And I'm pretty certain I read it in an Allie interview that Whedon would not be writing any issues in S9 and executive producing only. Due to other commitments.


BTW I wanted to thank you again (I know I thanked you years ago) for that wonderful knit hat you made, it is so soft and warm in the horrid frigid temperatures we've had lately!

Oh you are very welcome! I'm so happy you liked it and you are getting so much use out of it.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

Yeah a nice warm hat is a God send on cold days (which is every day until I escape to California in January).

I've never found the download sites for the comics... but of course it is also true that comic book stores are going out of business all through the midWest and beyond (there used to be three near where my cousin lives in Texas, now there are none). Even by expanding into toys, collectables and gaming, a lot of stores cannot stay in business. The one near me has changed hands and is struggling (I hope he makes it, otherwise I'll need to subscribe... or figure out how to download online!).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yep, having the same situation here - comic book stores are going out of business right and left. The industry is shifting because of the internet, I suspect. Better comics are being produced online and people can acess them for free. Same thing is happening with periodicals.

In a way Whedon did me a favor - by writing a story that I've come to really dislike, he's almost completely weaned me off of my comic addiction - which he got me re-addicted to with Astonishing X-men. (He's also, as a bonus, appeared to have successfully weaned me off of my Buffy obsession.)