Unpopular fannish opinion

[rivkat]

Really. No, really. It's about Studio 60, and it's not favorable.

Aaron Sorkin loves not us. Gertrude in her ratty bathrobe? Fat, unpopular, jealous Gertrude who can't spell? That's you and me, babe. That's who he's writing for, because TPTB are gods and we are Gertrude.

Sorkin is a genius with dialogue, and when the plots involved serious world issues I cut him an awful lot of slack because I was so happy to see characters who cared about broader issues on a non-genre show, but tonight I actually told my TV, "I don't need your disrespect" and turned it off.

The thing is, Aaron -- and does it invalidate the sentiment that I learned it from Farscape? -- you can be more. But until you respect the audience the way you want them to respect the storyteller, you and I are done.

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[boji.livejournal.com]

Aaron Sorkin loves not us. Gertrude in her ratty bathrobe?

He did this with Lyman's lemons (in TWW) or whatever the fan-group was called as I remember it. So I'm not surprised. But yes God you need to respect your audience/reader. And I say that as someone in the UK who has yet to see a single episode.

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally knew this -- there was Lemonlyman and the Star Trek fan, both of which were cruelly treated. But having him shove it in my face (a) early on, when I didn't care about the characters and (b) when I don't care about the job the characters are doing was enough to get me to give up on the show.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

And Lemonlyman grew out of his own experiences on the TWOP boards, which were *entirely* his own fault. If he were gay, I'd call him a bitchy queen. Hell, I'll call him that anyway.