*eyeroll*

[kaigou]

Dear author:

You wrote, "Solicitations for volunteers [for the survey] were sent to Buffistas.com, All Things Philosophical on Angel and Buffy, Slayage.tv, and the Bronze; these either did not respond to the solicitations or refused to post them."

Unh-hunh. After reviewing your pathetic excuse for a hypothesis: "Series-oriented fans see themselves as loyal to the series; whereas story-oriented fans see themselves as loyal to the story, the characters, and/or the relationships.*" ...I suspect it's less that ATPoBtVS refused to post the survey link, so much as the First Evil is a smart enough evil that she saw little reason to make the rest of us suffer through your idiocy.

nolove,
the Second Evil


*Did you really think the owner/moderator of a site called All Things Philosophical — with pages listing extensive treatises comparing the existentialist, pragmatist, and essentialist themes in the show and that's just for the appetizer — wasn't going to be able to nail a false dichotomy at a hundred paces?

Comments

[kellicat.livejournal.com]

The writer of that hypothesis comes off as a fandom noob or a student desperate for help on her paper. It also sounds as though the writer is an academic type 'slumming' in fandom and is shocked to find that they don't appreciate her genius deconstruction.*

*Perhaps I'm reading too much into it. Then again, I've seen enough 'slumming' on the part of academic strivers to get suspicious when I see something as simplistic as this hypothesis pop up.

[kaigou]

Published! In a peer-reviewed journal, no less! And then in a collection of essays -- and not a self-published or small press collection, at that!

...at which point I thought to myself, self, I thought: why the hell did I call it quits on being a professional philosopher when, wow, look, it's so EASY. Just come up with a really idiotic hypothesis, find a survey sponsor, and I, too, could be, like, published. And stuff.

and completely unable to respect myself in the morning but I suppose that's beside the point

[kellicat.livejournal.com]

I'm saddened, but I am not surprised to hear that this writer is actually published. A lot of academics seem to think that fandom should be graced by their presence and that nobody who's a fan of a TV show is smart enough recognize a bad hypothesis.

[kaigou]

My immediate reaction: "What? What? I've been waiting YEARS for fandom to recognize how much it's graced by my presence! And here comes some snot-nosed social scientist who thinks she can just WALTZ in and do the gracing? Who does she think she IS? Get in LINE, kid!"

I think I slept funny. Feeling oddly punchy this morning...