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.