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connielane) wrote2008-05-30 09:15 am
connielane) wrote2008-05-30 09:15 am
Still boggling after all these years.
Joss Whedon - Created Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which lasted for seven seasons. Seventh season was not well received by the fans, but it didn't exactly kill affection for the show as a whole. Four years later: Whedon starts writing Buffy stories again. No one (that I can find) says anything to the effect that Whedon should just let it go and not mess with the fans' precious Buffyverse more than he already has.
Spielberg and Lucas - Made Raiders of the Lost Ark, an extremely popular film that spawned two very popular (though widely acknowledged as inferior) sequels. Nineteen years later: Speilberg and Lucas make another Indy film. Fans don't complain about this, except that they want it to be a worthy addition to the franchise. No one says "Ugh, not ANOTHER Indy story!"
Fans had their complaints about the Star Wars prequels, as everyone knows, but I never heard anyone complaining that there were going to BE prequels.
Did Tolkien fans complain when The Silmarillion came out because they didn't want new stories from Middle Earth?
Then WHY do so-called Harry Potter fans complain when there's apparently new canon to be enjoyed very shortly? I mean ... I think we all know why that is. But it's just amusing to me that the whiners don't seem to realize how ridiculous they sound complaining that there's going to be another story to enjoy.
Of course, I could be totally wrong about complaints in those other fandoms, not being as involved in them as I have been in HP, but it strikes me as a bizarre fannish anomaly nonetheless.
Spielberg and Lucas - Made Raiders of the Lost Ark, an extremely popular film that spawned two very popular (though widely acknowledged as inferior) sequels. Nineteen years later: Speilberg and Lucas make another Indy film. Fans don't complain about this, except that they want it to be a worthy addition to the franchise. No one says "Ugh, not ANOTHER Indy story!"
Fans had their complaints about the Star Wars prequels, as everyone knows, but I never heard anyone complaining that there were going to BE prequels.
Did Tolkien fans complain when The Silmarillion came out because they didn't want new stories from Middle Earth?
Then WHY do so-called Harry Potter fans complain when there's apparently new canon to be enjoyed very shortly? I mean ... I think we all know why that is. But it's just amusing to me that the whiners don't seem to realize how ridiculous they sound complaining that there's going to be another story to enjoy.
Of course, I could be totally wrong about complaints in those other fandoms, not being as involved in them as I have been in HP, but it strikes me as a bizarre fannish anomaly nonetheless.
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I think that all fandoms have a sense of "don't mess with THIS part of what I love" -- HP may seem more notable than most because it is an enormous and yet varied fandom where people are interested in protecting their vision of the characters. That's entitlement, I'd agree.
However, if that's entitlement, I'm probably an example of an entitled fan. I was horrified, yesterday, to read rumours that they're casting a new love interest for Superman in the next Superman movie. You can't supplant Lois, in my books!
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I hope they're casting a new actress for Lois though because Kate was so blah. I hated her being engaged, and her and Clark's son being raised by another man. That's not Lois! Lois is not Mary Jane Watson: she's actually Clark's partner and wife and not the elusive love interest. Superman Returns was such a disappointment: they should have started a new movie continuity (not the ones with Chris Reeves) and they should have followed the comics. They really needed a movie like Batman Begins.
That being said, we're lucky that we have JKR in control of her story and the original characters, because we know she won't mess with her characters and that the story will fit with the rest of her books. I trust JKR more than a lot of other sequel and prequel whores out there, so I can't wait!