There is absolutely no contest that Dorothy was bugfuck nuts, but when I rewatched, I realized just how much fun she is being bugfuck nuts. It really makes her last few episodes -- where she breaks down and you get a sudden total retconning of her entire motivation -- such a freaking cop-out. What's wrong with being bugfuck nuts for the sake of? We didn't get any of the male antagonists giving us the same crap... *cough* But anyway!
Okay, I thought I'd heard them all, but somehow 'selfcest' had gotten past me. *makes a note* I'm sure I'll be tested on that one.
I think the only reason you saw holy warring in GW was because the fandom really was that massive -- and was also coming into its own right as the internet itself really started to take off at least as a communication platform -- so you have what seems to be a dangerous combination of a lot of new-to-this-medium mixed with newly-entranced-by-story and add sun, atmosphere, and water, and you have weather! In this case, really bad weather. Other fandoms come close to pairing wars, but they're more like wars in the sense that the Greco-Turkish War was technically a war, if only thirty days long -- while the GW pairing wars were the freaking Hundred Years' War of the goddamn fandom world: lots more land to cover, lots more people involved, lots more noise being made, lots more attention paid.
But then, one of the reason (I surmise) the later wars in other fandoms haven't always burned so hot is because many GW fans have moved onto those other fandoms -- and remain disinclined and disinterested in ever having to go through that again. Although that's based mostly on the fact that anytime I've seen a pairing battle start to flare up, you can pretty much bet pizza money the first person to speak up and ask folks to calm the fuck down is going to close out their demand with, "I lived through the GW pairing wars, and believe me, I have NO INTEREST in going back, so cut it the hell out right NOW don't MAKE me come OVER THERE."
...and then the newbies get all hushed at the thought of facing down a True Veteran of Pairing Wars. Because everyone knows, those in the GW Pairing Wars took no names and took no prisoners, and let's not re-awaken the berserkers, shall we?
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Date: 4 Dec 2009 05:45 am (UTC)Okay, I thought I'd heard them all, but somehow 'selfcest' had gotten past me. *makes a note* I'm sure I'll be tested on that one.
I think the only reason you saw holy warring in GW was because the fandom really was that massive -- and was also coming into its own right as the internet itself really started to take off at least as a communication platform -- so you have what seems to be a dangerous combination of a lot of new-to-this-medium mixed with newly-entranced-by-story and add sun, atmosphere, and water, and you have weather! In this case, really bad weather. Other fandoms come close to pairing wars, but they're more like wars in the sense that the Greco-Turkish War was technically a war, if only thirty days long -- while the GW pairing wars were the freaking Hundred Years' War of the goddamn fandom world: lots more land to cover, lots more people involved, lots more noise being made, lots more attention paid.
But then, one of the reason (I surmise) the later wars in other fandoms haven't always burned so hot is because many GW fans have moved onto those other fandoms -- and remain disinclined and disinterested in ever having to go through that again. Although that's based mostly on the fact that anytime I've seen a pairing battle start to flare up, you can pretty much bet pizza money the first person to speak up and ask folks to calm the fuck down is going to close out their demand with, "I lived through the GW pairing wars, and believe me, I have NO INTEREST in going back, so cut it the hell out right NOW don't MAKE me come OVER THERE."
...and then the newbies get all hushed at the thought of facing down a True Veteran of Pairing Wars. Because everyone knows, those in the GW Pairing Wars took no names and took no prisoners, and let's not re-awaken the berserkers, shall we?