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[fan_eunice]

One of the things that is always interesting to me when I'm prepping source for vids is the ways fannish perception skews things. Usually a ship or a polarizing character, but if you were going by the intensity and volume of the fannish discussions you'd expect them to take up most of the screen time. Except a great deal of the time they really don't. I'm not saying that is a bad thing, taking what speaks to us (in a way we perceive as good or annoying/bad) and running with it is what fandom does, the spark that spawns a thousand fanworks and meta discussions. But it lends a lot of truth to the whole 'what show are you watching, are we watching different shows?' of our discussions. Because, yes, yes we really are. And none of us are watching the same show of the casual viewer.

This post brought to you by there not being nearly as much Spike or Spuffy or related focus in season 7 of Buffy as I assumed there would be going by fannish memory and not having done a rewatch in awhile. No, really. In terms of actual screen time, there's not nearly as much of it as you'd think.

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[klia]

But it lends a lot of truth to the whole 'what show are you watching, are we watching different shows?' of our discussions. Because, yes, yes we really are. And none of us are watching the same show of the casual viewer.

Totally! Plus, a lot of the stuff fans grab onto and beat like a dead horse are things that make me go, BUH, WTF, REALLY??

Did I ever tell you about the time K, K, and I were making a SG-1 vid, and we all hallucinated the same scene that didn't actually exist in the show? Srsly.

[fan_eunice]

Heh, some of it I'm right there beating the dead horse with abandon, but yeah. What we take away is not necessarily in proportion to what's on screen. Like I said, that's kind of awesome in its own way, but it is also the reason there are very few fannish hills I'd choose to die on, because a squint to the left and that other interpretation is perfectly valid.

we all hallucinated the same scene that didn't actually exist in the show?

Ahahahaha, the dangers of vidding. I have come to accept that for every vid I make there will always be at least one scene that never actually existed outside my head that I will be looking for. :D

[klia]

because a squint to the left and that other interpretation is perfectly valid.

It's just kind of odd being a major canon junkie in an environment where almost everything has gone very fanon-centric.

always be at least one scene that never actually existed outside my head that I will be looking for.

Hee. Yep, I'm used to that. But it was really bizarre when three different people remembered the exact same nonexistent scene. What?

[cee_m]

Heh. Yeah. It's funny when you go back and go "Wait. What? That was all?" Our memories make things so much bigger than they actually were. I know I'm watching a different show than the casual viewer because I'm smarter than they are and know that the boys secretly want to make out. ;)

[fan_eunice]

*snicker*

But..yeah. It is amazing what fandom can do when it runs with things (amazing both for good and for headdesky), but it is also good to step back and get perspective that what we pull out of the story is there but it's not necessarily there in the quantities we imagine :D

[cee_m]

I have friends who are Spike/Willow shippers (which is how I really got into fandom at large, not that I was a s/w shipper but that I was friends with them) and they can pull Spike/Willow out of ANYTHING. It's amazing.

It's been a while since I've season 7. It's not one of my favorites (2&3) but yeah... that show. I know we've talked about it before, but it changed... my whole life.