Fandom has won. And it sucks.
Feb. 20th, 2012 05:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skywaterblueThere's going to be an Inspector Spacetime web series!
None of that’s necessary anymore. When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all just adding to an ever-swelling, soon-to-erupt volcano of trivia, re-contextualized and forever rebooted. We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.
-- Patton Oswalt, Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
There was a point in my life when I would have reacted to the above news with unheralded glee, but I increasingly find the commodification of fandom to be disturbing. A TV show on NBC markets itself to geek culture at Gallifrey One by announcing a webseries of the fictional show created to lampoon Doctor Who and what does ANY of that mean except money for NBC and the fog of nothingness to the minds ready to receive it?
I know. Killer of fun, am I. But we won, and it BLOWS.
None of that’s necessary anymore. When everyone has easy access to their favorite diversions and every diversion comes with a rabbit hole’s worth of extra features and deleted scenes and hidden hacks to tumble down and never emerge from, then we’re all just adding to an ever-swelling, soon-to-erupt volcano of trivia, re-contextualized and forever rebooted. We’re on the brink of Etewaf: Everything That Ever Was—Available Forever.
-- Patton Oswalt, Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die.
There was a point in my life when I would have reacted to the above news with unheralded glee, but I increasingly find the commodification of fandom to be disturbing. A TV show on NBC markets itself to geek culture at Gallifrey One by announcing a webseries of the fictional show created to lampoon Doctor Who and what does ANY of that mean except money for NBC and the fog of nothingness to the minds ready to receive it?
I know. Killer of fun, am I. But we won, and it BLOWS.
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Date: 2012-02-21 01:35 am (UTC)Meanwhile, fandom will go on merrily doing its own thing, including writing tons of Inspector Spacetime fic, which may or may not relate to the web series, but from which NBC will not profit.
Fandom isn't uncomplicit in big media, certainly, but I also think we're a lot less co-opted and compliant than big media would like.
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