![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sudden thought:
Is it possible that with television getting better and more prestige-like, it's draining the format of the very things that made TV fandom so fun???
Like I think about the best (by best I mean most active and interesting) TV fandoms I know of and they're like BtVS obviously and classic Trek and the X-Files and Doctor Who and those shows are all really great and iconic but also really, really messy? And sprawling and hence fun to explore? And they have monster of the week episodes and plotlines that get dropped or not fully developed and maybe that's why they inspired good fandoms?
I love The Expanse. I love Black Sails. They are so very, very good. But I have never felt the need to look for fic for either one of them. Is it because they're so tightly written?
Is it possible that the TV is so good now that I don't need fanfic? And if so...where can I find some good-but-also-messy TV again? It seems like that only exists in comedies (like, idk, Schitt's Creek or something), but I am not really super into comedies? I enjoy watching some of them, but they have never made me feel fannish. I need something speculative (or at least far away from the my real life like The West Wing or something) with an interesting world and enough loose ends to run wild.
I think I may be on to something with this. I need to think about it further...
Is it possible that with television getting better and more prestige-like, it's draining the format of the very things that made TV fandom so fun???
Like I think about the best (by best I mean most active and interesting) TV fandoms I know of and they're like BtVS obviously and classic Trek and the X-Files and Doctor Who and those shows are all really great and iconic but also really, really messy? And sprawling and hence fun to explore? And they have monster of the week episodes and plotlines that get dropped or not fully developed and maybe that's why they inspired good fandoms?
I love The Expanse. I love Black Sails. They are so very, very good. But I have never felt the need to look for fic for either one of them. Is it because they're so tightly written?
Is it possible that the TV is so good now that I don't need fanfic? And if so...where can I find some good-but-also-messy TV again? It seems like that only exists in comedies (like, idk, Schitt's Creek or something), but I am not really super into comedies? I enjoy watching some of them, but they have never made me feel fannish. I need something speculative (or at least far away from the my real life like The West Wing or something) with an interesting world and enough loose ends to run wild.
I think I may be on to something with this. I need to think about it further...
no subject
Yes, this is how I feel about some of the shows I've most enjoyed in the past few years.
I think it is usually either that canon is missing something that seems really full of potential to me and I just have to wander down the path of How It Would Go...but also occasionally it's just that the ship is so wonderful that even though everything in canon is satisfying, I just want to spend more time with them.
True!