Fandom Meme, 19 & 20

[osprey_archer]

19. Has social media caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?

I don’t think so. Or, rather, there are some canons where I don’t follow the fandom on social media because I have a healthy regard for my blood pressure, but my feeling about the fandom as a social phenomenon doesn’t harm my feeling about the canon.


20. What fandom broke your heart?

Can you say DOWNTON ABBEY? It did Sybil so dirty and I’ll never forgive it. I actually quit the show partway through that episode, so in my mind Sybil lives FOREVER, dammit.

This means that I never got to Matthew’s death, but never fear, I refuse to forgive the show for that too. And from what I hear the show didn’t do too well by many of the characters who lived, either. Downton Abbey, WHY you gotta be like this?

Comments

[silverusagi]

Downton Abbey was such a disappointment. The later seasons really sucked, so much that it kind of ruins the entire show for me. They should have stuck with their three season plan. But oh no--the show got super popular, so unlike OTHER British shows, they had to draaaaag it out.

[osprey_archer]

Oh NO. If they'd stuck to three seasons there would have been no reason to kill Sybil OR Matthew! (IIRC both the actors wanted out of their contracts and that's why the characters died.) I bet Edith could have married Sir Anthony Strallan, too, if the writers weren't like, "But how are we going to fill more seasons if ALL the girls are married??" No need for the horrible jilting at the altar...

God, truly a show killed by its own success.