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Aug. 22nd, 2006 11:18 amIt's my own fault. M. is off adventuring in the frozen tundra (actually, it's summer in the midwest so he's mostly sweltering in the melted tundra) but I've got the house to myself, and cannot leave the DVR alone. I'm actively LOOKING for things to record. It's addictive. Why didn't y'all tell me? Oh,wait, you did.
I'm reading Sharyn McCrumb's follow-up to Bimbos of the Death Sun, which is called Zombies of the Gene Pool, and like the other, the relevance of these books (which I enjoyed regardless) was lost on me the first time because I hadn't become part of fandom. And dude, these books just nail it, mercilessly and in some places warmly - Gene Pool more than Death Sun. I think McCrumb's worked out more of her issues with the fannish community in the sequel. But it is truly, truly odd to see something so close to you (and something that feels so oddly personal) laid out so thoroughly on the page, to see how little things have changed despite the internet. These books are funny and scathing and if you're a fan with perspective, I'd highly recommend them, both for the dude, that's so me and the mild sense of outrage. They're both worthy reactions.
And of course, on to the fannish news. I wish I were more surprised by Sci-Fi's decision to cancel SG-1. On a business level it undoubtedly makes sense. Hell, on a business level, cancelling Farscape probably made sense, but I'm never going to have perspective on that, so we'll leave it out of the discussion. Two years ago, I wouldn't have cared. The show isn't really MY show (although the new incarnation was heading therre), but it's a lot of other people's show and I'd have felt truly devastated on their behalf and moved on. But now, dammit, they revamped it, and brought in two of my favorite actors, and it was getting a new life. It was finding it's feet and doing new things and had this sort of joyous exuberance that had been lacking in the last few years, and dammit. I liked it. I liked the new characters (oh hell, I loved the new characters), but I've grown terribly attached to the original characters as well. And what pisses me off (aside from the err grr no I don't actually know these people, but Skiffy, how can you cancel yet another show right from under Browder and Black? That's just cruel, man. And your timing, as always, is sucktastic. And I feel bad for them more than anyone because they signed up for this show, to bring something new and exciting to it, a show that looked like it couldn't die and wham. I want these two to have glorious fullfilling careers. That doesn't seem like too much to ask, right?)
SG-1 became my Rolling Stones show, my love the one you're with show, and somehow around the Inviso-ep last season, it became a show I was looking forward to. One I wanted to sit next to, and maybe give the occasional hickey to, and let it take me out for chichi Chinese and a martini every once in awhile. It wasn't my drunken run off to Vegas and fuck for a month and have babies with show, and really, I don't think I'll ever have another one of those, but it was a show developing new and intriguing momentum and mostly it just sucks that the momentum won't have anywhere to go now. It seems such a typical business decision to pull the plug before really seeing what the investment can do. Which, way of the world or not, that just makes me angry. It's, again, the choice of business over story and no matter the justification, that's just never going to be okay with me. And yeah, the show's had a good run, and I hope that people do let those involved know how much it meant to them. These people worked their asses off for 10 years (and two years respectively) and they deserve to know that they will be missed.
I'm reading Sharyn McCrumb's follow-up to Bimbos of the Death Sun, which is called Zombies of the Gene Pool, and like the other, the relevance of these books (which I enjoyed regardless) was lost on me the first time because I hadn't become part of fandom. And dude, these books just nail it, mercilessly and in some places warmly - Gene Pool more than Death Sun. I think McCrumb's worked out more of her issues with the fannish community in the sequel. But it is truly, truly odd to see something so close to you (and something that feels so oddly personal) laid out so thoroughly on the page, to see how little things have changed despite the internet. These books are funny and scathing and if you're a fan with perspective, I'd highly recommend them, both for the dude, that's so me and the mild sense of outrage. They're both worthy reactions.
And of course, on to the fannish news. I wish I were more surprised by Sci-Fi's decision to cancel SG-1. On a business level it undoubtedly makes sense. Hell, on a business level, cancelling Farscape probably made sense, but I'm never going to have perspective on that, so we'll leave it out of the discussion. Two years ago, I wouldn't have cared. The show isn't really MY show (although the new incarnation was heading therre), but it's a lot of other people's show and I'd have felt truly devastated on their behalf and moved on. But now, dammit, they revamped it, and brought in two of my favorite actors, and it was getting a new life. It was finding it's feet and doing new things and had this sort of joyous exuberance that had been lacking in the last few years, and dammit. I liked it. I liked the new characters (oh hell, I loved the new characters), but I've grown terribly attached to the original characters as well. And what pisses me off (aside from the err grr no I don't actually know these people, but Skiffy, how can you cancel yet another show right from under Browder and Black? That's just cruel, man. And your timing, as always, is sucktastic. And I feel bad for them more than anyone because they signed up for this show, to bring something new and exciting to it, a show that looked like it couldn't die and wham. I want these two to have glorious fullfilling careers. That doesn't seem like too much to ask, right?)
SG-1 became my Rolling Stones show, my love the one you're with show, and somehow around the Inviso-ep last season, it became a show I was looking forward to. One I wanted to sit next to, and maybe give the occasional hickey to, and let it take me out for chichi Chinese and a martini every once in awhile. It wasn't my drunken run off to Vegas and fuck for a month and have babies with show, and really, I don't think I'll ever have another one of those, but it was a show developing new and intriguing momentum and mostly it just sucks that the momentum won't have anywhere to go now. It seems such a typical business decision to pull the plug before really seeing what the investment can do. Which, way of the world or not, that just makes me angry. It's, again, the choice of business over story and no matter the justification, that's just never going to be okay with me. And yeah, the show's had a good run, and I hope that people do let those involved know how much it meant to them. These people worked their asses off for 10 years (and two years respectively) and they deserve to know that they will be missed.
