Ron Moore says: Write more fanfic, people!

[hmpf]

http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/

*loves*

This also revives my endless fascination with the complexities that characterise the producer/audience relationship nowadays in science ficition and related areas. Oh, granted, that relationship has always been... interesting in print sf, what with most writers initally starting out in fandom; but now the same thing seems to be happening to the much more complex and commercialised field of SF tv and movies. Today's producers of SF tv and movies are fans, or at least those of the shows that have the most appeal to fannish types are. Joss Whedon, Ronald D. Moore, Rockne O'Bannon, Richard Manning, J. Michael Straczynski, Peter Jackson, Sam Raimi, to some degree even David Kemper... they all speak our language, belong to our culture to some degree. Of course, that only makes the relationship between 'them' and 'us' more complicated. To some degree 'they' are 'us', but 'they' are also 'them', in the context of a system in which 'they' have more power over content than we do... although that's tempting to forget...

Anyway, I'm rambling. I have to write something here soon about my new job and the tenderness of construction machines, but I have no time for that tonight, and tomorrow I'm meeting the Frankfurt Scapers.

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

It's definitely changed something now that fanboys themselves have become creators.*g*

Hate to repeat mysef, but: did you get my emails?

Yes, sorry.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

I didn't reply to your previous reply, nor to *any* of the replies in my LJ in the last week or so because I was rarely home, and very busy when I was. For the same reason I didn't manage to send the parcel yet, but I will do so on Tuesday. Can't do it on Monday as I'll be on a day trip to Halle. Sorry for the delay!

From Scapekid

[(Anonymous)]

Yay! You found the sacred blog!

Re: From Scapekid

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Oh, I found it a while ago, but it wasn't important enough to me to post about here before he made his wonderful fanboy entry about Trek. *g*

Re: From Scapekid

[(Anonymous)]

Then I'll assume you also know about the deleted scenes at the bottom of the episode summaries. Finally! We know what that picture is. :)

*is a happy battlestar galacticite*

Re: From Scapekid

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

No, actually I don't. I haven't been reading the blog regularly. Everything fannish had to take a backseat to uni this term. Could you give me a link to the relevant entry?

[dashan.livejournal.com]

and tomorrow I'm meeting the Frankfurt Scapers.

Ich weiß nicht, wie es Dir ging, ich fand den Stammtisch gestern nicht besonders schön/gelungen/angenehm. VIelleicht war es die Sitzordung (ich komme mit einigen Leuten einfach nciht klar) oder dass ich vor lauter Jenny nicht an Andura herankam (Jenny hockt da immer wie eine Glucke drauf...). Und wir konnten uns auch nicht unterhalten, weil wir soweit voneinander entfernt saßen. :( Sehr schade. Zusammen mit der lahmen Bedienung und Bettina im Kostüm ergab das irgendwie keine Mischung, die ich gemocht hätte.
Wollen wir mal wieder ein Schwesterntreffen auf die Beine stellen? Ich vermisse euch beide! Und wenn wir uns schon nur sporadisch sehen und dann auch nicht mal schwätzen können, ist total doof.

Sorry to hear that...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

At my end of the table it was nice enough, and I can cope with not being able to talk with Andura one evening - it's impossible to talk with everyone in such a large group in only a few hours, ayway.

Arrgh, wieso schreibe ich denn Englisch??? Ähhh...

ALso, jedenfalls, wir können uns gerne wieder mal zu dritt treffen, denn jetzt kann ich ja wieder freier über meine Zeit verfügen! Yay! Also: Jederzeit, sagt mir einfach, wann! Nur nicht Freitag oder Samstag tagsüber, denn das sind meine beiden Arbeitstage, da bin ich bis 17:00 beschäftigt. Aber nach 17:00 geht's natürlich.