My corner of fandom, 'tis a lonely place

[feliciakw]

My little corner of fandom, 'tis a lonely place right now.

Dr. Who just wiped clean the memory of one of my favorite characters. It's as if her adventures never happened. I'm sitting here with my chin trembling, my lip quivering, and tears dripping down my face. The Donna we knew, the Donna The Doctor knew, is gone. And the way they left it, they can't bring her back. (Still, this being Dr. Who, anything is possible, right? Right?)

This is on top of the loneliness I've felt today in regards to SPN fandom. It's silly, I know. It's just a TV show.

I've made a choice to try to remain as unspoiled as I can for the upcoming season. The loneliness comes when I realize that everyone I converse with has been spoiled. This in effect negates any and all speculation we might banter about, because anything I say is bound to be wrong, and they know it. I've got no one to talk to about what could happen, because they know what will happen. And anything I speculate will be so off base as to seem misguided and foolish. So what's the point?

I've even thought, well, since the entire cast and crew are yammering away, why then, it doesn't matter if I'm spoiled. Obviously, they want their audience to be spoiled. The buzz and the chatter keep interest up. It's a publicity tool. So there ya go. I've considered hunting down the first 5 minutes of 4.1, simply so I can have something to talk to my correspondents about. But then I think, no, I don't want to see it on my little computer screen, a crummy picture that streams in fits and starts. Even a rough cut deserves better than that. I want to see it for the first time in all its heart pounding glory.

And though my fannish self is crushed by the season finale of Dr. Who, I'm glad I was unspoiled for it. It wouldn't have held the emotional punch if I'd seen it coming.

My little corner of fandom, 'tis a lonely place.

Comments

[feliciakw.livejournal.com]

I must make this quick, as I have to get to an appointment. I'll give my full attention to your post when I get back. But I did want to address this:

It's off somehow but i like how they did it in S1 - explain something through couple of phrase or looks or acts. It was like we learn something new about Winchester's family along with Sam :) I don't mind if they keep it in next season too. I mean - i can tell they have a lot thingsd to explain to each other, right?

That's not really what I mean. Finding out about characters through a throw-away line or a glance is great--it's one of the things Jared and Jensen excell at. No, I mean explaining away an entire storyline in a couple sentences--like explaining how Dean got out of Hell with an oh, by the way, his contract wasn't valid because . . . or whatever. They need to delve into it and how it affected both the Boys. And I think that's what they're going to do. So I'm not really perturbed that they're picking it up where they are, especially if we eventually find out what *did* happen in those missing months.

I'm comparing it specifically in Farscape in the season where they left John hanging out in space in his module by himself while Moya got sucked into a wormhole. The following season we started with John already having been rescued by a passing laviaton, and he'd been on his own for months. There could have been all sorts of adventures of him being picked up by Scorpius or something, but instead, they just kind of told us oh, btw, this passing laviathon found him and picked him up. Very anticlimactic for me.

Gotta run. Will be back.

[leelust.livejournal.com]

Oh, i see abd agree now - i see it the same way too. I mean the 'How' Dean got out from Hell is the whole new arc for me and i hope this question (and all that caused by it) will be with us the whole season. I'd say more about comparision with S1 but again i'm afraid of spoiling you so let's wait till new season starts and we will be able to see if i was right :)
And i really love that 'affected' part - for both boys - it's the way to explain characters' changes and expand territory for farther developments.

As to Farscape - now i recall that moment - i was cringing a little but then i was all after John (missed him so much) so i 'forgave' them. That universe has so many ways for adventures so maybee writers just were scary to lost in those ways and just gave us new a little different John to play with... Just to start over with it. I mean if they'd had more seasons maybe they'd returned to this theme... i don't know...

OK, wait for you to return :) Great discussion.