Fandom Ranting
Jul. 5th, 2008 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiffieA Season Two of The Dresden Files seems pretty much out of the question now.
It's been far too long and most of the leads have gone off and done other things. More importantly, I fear the sets and props have been destroyed and/or sold off, making even a renewal with a different cast impossible.
To say I'm dissapointed would be an understatement. I really liked this series. It was fun and smart and a hell of a lot more entertaining than most things on television. Now, granted, I don't have cable at home and it would have been more of a "buy the DVDs when they came out" sort of thing, but I was still watching at school. I've lent out my DVD set to multiple people and gotten them hooked, as well. And for what? I've gotten, for lack of a better term, emotionally invested in something that will never go anywhere, ever again.
There won't be fanon novel tie-ins, or comics made, or merchandise, or anything else.
But Kiffies, you probably say, what about the books? Well, I'm readin' 'em. Slowly, mind you, as Kiffies have the attention span of a housefly, but I'm getting there. And while every book is better than the last, I simply liked the TV show more. It had a buddycop formula -- TWO, really. Harry and Murphy did the legwork and the physical adventuring, then Harry came 'home' and he and Bob did the snarking and the book learning. (Granted, the books function a little like this, though Harry is much more a lone wolf therein.) I absolutely adore that; buddycop is fun to watch and moves plots along beautifully. Besides, who doesn't want best friends like Murphy and Bob? If Bob can't tell you how to defeat your enimies, you can just sic Murphy on 'em. :3
And it really comes down to the old fanon gripe -- stupid canon interferring with my fanon. That's really what the TV show is, a really awesome, high budget fanon. It's an AU of the books. And I just happen to like it a little better.
The books have the comics and the merch. That version of Dresden will get attention paid to it-- and rightly so, as the original, it deserves it --but the TV show will be ignored. And the TV show does not deserve to be ignored.
I know the series is dead. And I'm okay with that. Okay, not really, but I'll accept it with slightly less homicidal tendencies than I might have a few months ago. So now my hopes lie with the idea that someone, somewhere, in the higher tiers of SciFi, might get it into their heads that a theatrical movie would be the best way to both appease the fans and earn a considerable amount of money. The TV fans would go and watch. So would the book fans. And the entire scifi-/mystical-loving crowd. And, if you advertise it correctly, you'd probably pick up a few of the detective and mystery folks, as well. Not to mention anyone who enjoys seeing monsters and explosions and lightning. Which is a considerable number of people. :3
Okay. I'm done. I'll go back into my corner and rewatch my DVDs.
It's been far too long and most of the leads have gone off and done other things. More importantly, I fear the sets and props have been destroyed and/or sold off, making even a renewal with a different cast impossible.
To say I'm dissapointed would be an understatement. I really liked this series. It was fun and smart and a hell of a lot more entertaining than most things on television. Now, granted, I don't have cable at home and it would have been more of a "buy the DVDs when they came out" sort of thing, but I was still watching at school. I've lent out my DVD set to multiple people and gotten them hooked, as well. And for what? I've gotten, for lack of a better term, emotionally invested in something that will never go anywhere, ever again.
There won't be fanon novel tie-ins, or comics made, or merchandise, or anything else.
But Kiffies, you probably say, what about the books? Well, I'm readin' 'em. Slowly, mind you, as Kiffies have the attention span of a housefly, but I'm getting there. And while every book is better than the last, I simply liked the TV show more. It had a buddycop formula -- TWO, really. Harry and Murphy did the legwork and the physical adventuring, then Harry came 'home' and he and Bob did the snarking and the book learning. (Granted, the books function a little like this, though Harry is much more a lone wolf therein.) I absolutely adore that; buddycop is fun to watch and moves plots along beautifully. Besides, who doesn't want best friends like Murphy and Bob? If Bob can't tell you how to defeat your enimies, you can just sic Murphy on 'em. :3
And it really comes down to the old fanon gripe -- stupid canon interferring with my fanon. That's really what the TV show is, a really awesome, high budget fanon. It's an AU of the books. And I just happen to like it a little better.
The books have the comics and the merch. That version of Dresden will get attention paid to it-- and rightly so, as the original, it deserves it --but the TV show will be ignored. And the TV show does not deserve to be ignored.
I know the series is dead. And I'm okay with that. Okay, not really, but I'll accept it with slightly less homicidal tendencies than I might have a few months ago. So now my hopes lie with the idea that someone, somewhere, in the higher tiers of SciFi, might get it into their heads that a theatrical movie would be the best way to both appease the fans and earn a considerable amount of money. The TV fans would go and watch. So would the book fans. And the entire scifi-/mystical-loving crowd. And, if you advertise it correctly, you'd probably pick up a few of the detective and mystery folks, as well. Not to mention anyone who enjoys seeing monsters and explosions and lightning. Which is a considerable number of people. :3
Okay. I'm done. I'll go back into my corner and rewatch my DVDs.
