It’s a question I’ve asked myself very seriously since it was announced last year that Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit would expand from a dubious two-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 310-page novel to a plainly abusive nine-hour trilogy. It was about this news that The Mary Sue blogger Jill Pantozzi wrote, “The good news? We get to prolong our fandom…” I suspect Pantozzi didn’t intend to imbue her remark with the weight I’m giving it, but I truly thought about that statement a lot. The implications hit me kind of like a bolt of lightning… but, like, if lightning could shoot up from beneath the ground and scare the hell out of you. We get to prolong our fandom? Is that what it’s all about? Is that what fandom is? Indiscriminate consumption of any junk food that’s packaged similarly to something we vaguely remember loving? comicsalliance/fangasm-unreality-geek-culture-review-video-syfy/
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 15:47:13 +0000
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