All of a sudden, the bottom fell through and my interest leaked out. This has rather gotten in the way (cough) of my wanting to act fannish and even post on LJ. Ohh, yes! That's exactly it! I'm glad someone else can connect with what I'm describing, because I feel kind of alone in it. It's not really happened to me before and there's always that little voice saying 'is this just me? am I just being a miseryguts about everything?' But it really does lower one's desire to engage fannishly and that's sad to me because I enjoy the communal and friendship aspects of fandom. But you can't fake it, you know?
I've given it a great deal of thought and I think it's the material that is changing. *nods* I really have given it a lot of thought too and I agree. I know there are people out there who are still engaged by Smallville and BSG and I am happy for them, but for me the shifts in writing--especially in BSG--have thrown me out emotionally.
I've still interested in BSG intellectually. But emotionally I couldn't care less anymore. With the possible exception of Tigh, I feel that I'm looking at cardboard cutouts or at best mythological figure not flesh and blood people. Yeah... isn't that terrible! Of all the shows to wind up like that! It was always its characters that were so strong. But like you I'm still intellectually engaged--I still find myself thinking about the concepts and the show's direction a lot (often with a fair degree of frustration, but nonetheless...) but I used to agonise over Lee's crises and feel emotionally connected to his journey. Now he fades from my mind as soon as the ep is over. And while that was always kind of masochistic... I still miss it. ;)
Ah well. It helps to admit what's going on. But I do hope I can find some new shows or books or SOMEthing at some stage that feels more 'real' to me again...
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Date: 2008-06-17 08:59 am (UTC)Ohh, yes! That's exactly it! I'm glad someone else can connect with what I'm describing, because I feel kind of alone in it. It's not really happened to me before and there's always that little voice saying 'is this just me? am I just being a miseryguts about everything?' But it really does lower one's desire to engage fannishly and that's sad to me because I enjoy the communal and friendship aspects of fandom. But you can't fake it, you know?
I've given it a great deal of thought and I think it's the material that is changing.
*nods* I really have given it a lot of thought too and I agree. I know there are people out there who are still engaged by Smallville and BSG and I am happy for them, but for me the shifts in writing--especially in BSG--have thrown me out emotionally.
I've still interested in BSG intellectually. But emotionally I couldn't care less anymore. With the possible exception of Tigh, I feel that I'm looking at cardboard cutouts or at best mythological figure not flesh and blood people.
Yeah... isn't that terrible! Of all the shows to wind up like that! It was always its characters that were so strong. But like you I'm still intellectually engaged--I still find myself thinking about the concepts and the show's direction a lot (often with a fair degree of frustration, but nonetheless...) but I used to agonise over Lee's crises and feel emotionally connected to his journey. Now he fades from my mind as soon as the ep is over. And while that was always kind of masochistic... I still miss it. ;)
Ah well. It helps to admit what's going on. But I do hope I can find some new shows or books or SOMEthing at some stage that feels more 'real' to me again...