Smallville

[norwich36]

So, season 9. I have to confess, I'm not entirely sure I'm going to be watching. This is not precisely due to the perceived direction of the season (I've read a few spoilers, though not that many); I think it's more a combination of (a) the show moving to Friday nights and (b) my sense of disconnection from the fandom.

Probably the Friday night factor is definitive. What little social life I have takes place on Friday nights, and I know from past experience I'm really *bad* about keeping up with shows I have to tape. (I'm about 4 episodes behind on Merlin, and 3 on Leverage, for example--and at a certain point I don't have a lot of motive to keep up, because the fannish conversation has moved on).

And it was the fannish conversation that kept me in SV long after the first great out-migration, and even after the second. Hell, I *became* active when everyone was leaving, back in season 4, and I have reviewed every single episode since season 5 on. But last year I noticed I was really out of step with a lot of my former SV conversation partners, and I was avoiding their reviews to stop myself from getting into stupid character wars or taking character criticisms personally (and I assume the reverse was also happening, since the comments on my own reviews went way down). So I just don't know what's going to happen this season. I'm not going to say I'm going to stop reviewing altogether. I know better to make that sort of grand pronouncement; it basically ensures I would renege on it a week later. But I know myself, and if I am avoiding people's reviews to avoid conflict, I'm not going to have an incentive to keep up with the show when I'm not watching it live, so I'm expecting a slow fade as the season progresses. Just FYI.

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[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's weird, because I read tons of reviews in SPN that make me gnash my teeth or think the reviewer just is completely misguided in their interpretation of a character or a plot point or whatever, but I don't take it *personally*--even though I do feel extremely invested in that show now--but similar criticism in SV just rubs me raw sometimes. Maybe it's just my extreme aversion to being drawn into character wars; I didn't even think it was possible, but the character wars in SV have become even *more* polarized in the last couple years, and it just makes me very tired. Like anything I say could inadvertantly become fuel for another round of "my favorite character is great, your favorite character sucks."

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I didn't even think it was possible, but the character wars in SV have become even *more* polarized in the last couple years, and it just makes me very tired.

:nods: I ended up quite liking Lois after season 8, but of course that was the time when the Chloe hate got really extreme, so people are still being divided into loving one character and hating the other :/


And it's funny because I *love* SPN and have got really into the show lately, but I don't feel a part of that fandom at all. Buffy fandom was the first on-line fandom I was very involved with, then SV fandom. I just can't seem to find my niche in other fandoms in the same way...

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really feel like I'm *in* SPN fandom; I just talk to people on my flist who happen to be into the show.