J'accuse

[sombrefan]

From a review of the "Seven seasons of Buffy".

Contributor Kevin Andrew Murphy takes that love-hate tendency on the part of fandom a step further, considering whether fans' chatter about the show on the Internet -- and creators' awareness and monitoring of that chatter -- in fact came to direct the creative choices made for the series, possibly for the worse.

In effect, Murphy seems to indicate, fan blather may in fact have contributed to the decline many fans felt the series suffered during its final two seasons.



Too right. Hope some fans are happy now.

Comments

Cool...

[jpatricklemarr.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Simon. I may have to pick that up.

J

P.S. Hope things are going well for you and our lovely lady! Give her a hug from Heidi and me.

things are going great

[simonf.livejournal.com]

It was our two year anniversary yesterday and my lovely fiancee bought me 'Chaos Bleeds' for the PS2.

Interesting.

[iamdigitalis.livejournal.com]

I may have to pick that up.

An extra congrats for you and R. *hugs*

It's a two way street though.

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

Fans have to let creators have full say over their characters and stop being whining little peons. But moreover, creators have to tune the fans out when writing for the show. Listening to the masses may work in a democracy but in writing you have to take hold of your creation and develop it in the way that you, the creator, see fit. To put all the blame on the fans is a cop out.

Season Seven

[(Anonymous)]

To my mind,the last season was very disappointing. Although I found the final Buffy breath-taking, loss of intelligence in the feminist theme and in the exploration of ethical philosophic challenges left me unsatisfied. Why waste a fabulous talent like Alyson Hannigan on such facile work.

DPTNST,

John