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

[silverjackal]

... Or they're nuts.

Someone does not understand social media, and can't get over the butthurt. Oh certainly the internet is full of crazies, but they're not all out to get Hart Hanson. And if he didn't want a dialogue, then he shouldn't have attempted the matter (but maybe he didn't understand going in that the nature of the beast would be to get more disagreement and/or discussion than gushing).

[silverjackal]

Do I have the show right? It's about a physical anthropologist working with some FBI fellow? A friend tried to get me to watch that, thinking I'd like it. Heh. No offense, if you were following the creator you probably like the show, but I found it ridiculous (I studied some physical anthropology as an undergraduate because I was taking archaeology courses as part of a paleozoology minor). Never mind that the FBI angle was also... Pfft. There's a reason I don't watch television, yes? :D

It doesn't surprise me that this fellow doesn't get it -- because his show is successful he expects nothing but accolades. He forgets that everyone is going to disagree with something, even if they're fans. And he also has never experienced fandom directly. There's a lot of very intelligent, very knowledgeable people in fandom who do excellent media criticism (often because they are themselves creators). He didn't realize or can't accept that sprinkled amongst the nuts are people who are his *peers* (whether or not they work in the industry). That "average fan" he cites in the article doesn't exist. Either people are interested in the show and engaged with it (saying "I liked X but not Y" to their friends who also watch), or they aren't engaged and don't give a fig.

[taiga13]

The weather is miserable here, which matches my mood. I'm not sure if it's correlation or causation. So far it's been a cold and wet summer.

[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.