Fan Deconstruction of Television and Film

[Kean]

This is an issue that I've been pondering for some time. Does anyone feel that the internet and emergence of fandom and fan culture has been to the detriment of TV and movie enjoyment?

Anyone familiar with Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Commentary will know Joss's song Heart(Broken). If you haven't heard it, have a listen, what he is saying is very interesting.

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Does he have a point? Do the details we focus on stop us (and apparently him) from enjoying the experience of just liking a show?

In another thread I mentioned how I have real issues with Hart Hanson (creator of Bones). His interactions with fans are generally accompanied by a rather bad taste being left in your mouth.

Should interaction with fans be limited? Do we need to know what whoever's motivation was for whatever character/scene/show/movie?

I was a fan long before I found fandom and part of me enjoyed it more when I was oblivious to all of the interviews, blogs and rants.

 

[zobothehobo]

Buffy is the only fandom I'm really a part of. But I love and I like a lot of other shows. I also listen to/watch a lot of commentary and interviews from everyone involved with the shows I watch. I don't listen to/watch these commentaries and interviews because I need to pick it apart to enjoy it and I would certainly not wish that the creators/writers/actors/anyone go farther in their commentary then they feel comfortable with. If that means no commentary, I'm fine with that. I don't need to know why everything happens. I like to question. In some of my posts about certain plot lines/character deaths I've talked about how I despise when people say "this actor couldn't come back and that's why they died." Or "this actor was fired and that's why the character died." I don't care about any of that. I care about what happened in the show. I think some fans go crazy with the deconstruction and think about the show solely through commentary and why this and that happened outside the narrative. That's not true for every fan interested in what went on outside the narrative or every fan that listens to/watches commentaries... but it is something you've got to watch out for.

 

[StarSlayer]

For me, sometimes the details make me like and enjoy a TV show or movie even more. I do love hearing about how actors work, how a particular scene was filmed, why something happened the way it did, etc. It makes me more invested and interested when I watch the final product. Yet, at the end of the day, I'm more focused on what's presented onscreen rather than the behind the scenes commentaries and interviews. Those are just the icing on the cake for me when I want to learn more about a TV show or movie after first viewing.