Green Room - Week 36 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Today is a busy day in Idol-land, so I'll cut right to business:

We had the results of the Quick Fire last night: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/834094.html

and today is the deadline to get in your entry in! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/832879.html

How do you know if you have or not? Because if you haven't - you are being shamed!!! :) http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/834503.html


Tonight is also the deadline for getting in your votes for the Spirit of LJ Idol, Season 9. So far, 6 of the eligible 11 contestants have turned in their ballots. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/832594.html

For any of those remaining voters - I'm sure you are planning on getting in your votes, and are just thinking about how you want to rank everyone to best reflect your feelings.

If, for some reason, you don't vote - I'll have to turn it over to my dog.

This morning, I asked Foxy who she wanted to vote for - and showed her the list of candidates.

Apparently, the person remaining who best represents what this season has been about is a bunch of lion cubs playing. (on one of her favorite shows: Big Cat Diary)

She was *very* passionate about that choice. It had all of her attention, and she excitedly grabbed her rope and swung it back and forth in between barks.

Now, clearly, a bunch of lion cubs playing is a great choice and will represent Idol well.

But if it's not YOUR choice - you should probably get your ballot in!

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What shows make *you* grab your rope and excitedly bark at the screen?

Comments

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

*high fives*

I think that phenom of "are we watching the same show" can be two-fold, or three-fold....or maybe an origami-folding. When viewers feel they cannot trust the writers, things get heated up really fast. Fandoms can take over an otherwise on-track story and derail it for other fans and sometimes for the writers themselves! Stories that take years to unfold get wrinkly.

*more coffee*

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Which brings up something from yesterday - the idea of fans "having their version" of a show/series of books in their fanfic.

I wonder how much of that started from "not trusting the writers" and how much of it is "I can do that too!" (taking the story and making it your own)

Do you think that is going to impact storytelling in the future? Will writers rooms become comment sections? ;)

(OK, not that last part - I just liked the line. :D)

[bleodswean.livejournal.com]

This is a serious. And complicated. Seriously complicated question. I am not savvy enough to think deeply about these sorts of cultural shifts but if you have strong essays, link me, please! Because I love to read the thoughts of others regarding entertainment and Art as entertainment...and Entertainment as Art.

I think YES. Absolutely. I think it already has. The entire phenom of fanfiction is just....astonishing, really. The phenom of cons and how seriously we have begun to take serialized television....

I'm surprised we haven't seen more experimentation with storytelling in prose form. It's all happening on TV.

*stares*

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I think some of the drive of fanfiction (or at least, what got me writing it instead of reading it) was filling in the holes in canon.

Yes, the slash was a big eventual draw too, but I was happy just reading that. Until I hit shows I was passionate about, where characters were horribly underwritten. I started out by writing 'underneath' the canon. Then it was "offscreen stuff" and "extras." It was years before I ventured into writing pre-canon, partly because it's such an excellent way to get Jossed. And sometimes, I did.

There are whole aspects of some shows I watch where I just can't buy into some of the canon events, and that more often leads to not only not 'fixing' it in fanfiction, but sometimes killing my love for the show. Rarely, but the chance is there...