Saturday

[nightdog_barks]

Very warm, windy. Started reading Born Yesterday -- so far, very good.

In other news:

deekayw Diane Kristine Wild
Comments on my @HartHanson twitter article are either sympathetic, willfully misunderstand, or prove his point. http://bit.ly/mxccWT

Which ... pretty much rules out anyone who might have an honest disagreement with the piece. The article is here, for those who want to read, and concerns Hart Hanson's (the creator of Bones) less-than-positive encounter with the world of Twitter followers.

Comments

[pwcorgigirl]

You didn't miss a thing by giving up watching it. The season got dumber from there on out.

The guys have gone to the movies and I have accidentally broken one of our porch chairs. Corgiguy has been saying, "This thing sounds like it's breaking" when he sat on it (it's a really old chair that was cheap to begin with), but it seemed sturdy so I dismissed that alarming creaking sound as the chair legs moving on the wood floor. Then me, Miss Pegleg, sat on it after they left today and found myself half-trapped in a ruined chair with my butt on the floor and braced, unbendable leg up in the air.

[nightdog_barks]

HA! That's happened to me with one of our kitchen table chairs. Apparently the manufacturer didn't use enough glue in one spot, and down it came when I was least expecting it. *g*

The thing that really amuses me more than Hanson's interview is the writer's insistence that commenters who are less than sympathetic to Hanson are either willfully misunderstanding or are "crazy." Oy.

[pwcorgigirl]

You think nobody ever taught showrunners that the number one rule of creative expression is "If you have to explain it afterward, then it wasn't right the first time?" Oy indeed.

It was quite a trick getting out of that chair! :D

[nightdog_barks]

You think nobody ever taught showrunners that the number one rule of creative expression is "If you have to explain it afterward, then it wasn't right the first time?"

Apparently, and as I said upstream, it didn't surprise me at all that Hanson would mention David Shore in light of the critical reception the season finale of House received from many corners.*


*I know there are folks out there who enjoyed it, liked it, loved it. I did too, up to a point.

[felis]

it didn't surprise me at all that Hanson would mention David Shore in light of the critical reception the season finale of House received from many corners.

Well. He didn't. He mentioned Shore in light of the problems both House and Bones had with their renewal negotiations this year, it had nothing to do with twitter or the finale. DKW included it so she could end her article with a rather bad analogy as punch line.

And not to say the arictle isn't problematic, but the amount of stupidity and entitlement is horrific and IMO there is no chance for constructive dialogue in 140 characters, especially when there are hundreds of participants and every thoughtful answer you might give is only going to attract even more people who think they finally have a chance to vent their frustration at somebody with influence.
The way Sara Hess is doing it is perfect I think, funny and interesting behind-the-scenes bits, but without engaging too much with fans. The latter only creates an illusion of influence and stirs things up even more.

[nightdog_barks]

*rereads*

You are exactly right. ARGH! I read "screaming and yelling and noise" and for some reason my mind conflated it as a continuation of the Twitter conversation. My apologies for putting words in Hanson's mouth. :-)

And yes, I think you're right. There are so many voices on Twitter, so many trying to be heard that they drown each other out and it becomes a cacophony. Sara Hess, I believe, gets it right about 99% of the time, and yet I've seen stupid people/trolls be ridiculous with her when she expressed a political opinion. It is sad.