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Endgame Thoughts- NO SPOILERS
May. 4th, 2019 08:46 amOkay, I saw the film last Sunday. What I've been seeing since, online, is...some really bizarre shit.
I'm going out of my way to avoid spoilers. But regardless of what happened (or didn't happen) in the film? It's absolutely ridiculous to tag the actors in your complaints. It's ludicrous and embarrassing. Don't like the film? Either ignore it altogether or write a fanfic that fixes it. Blaming the actor(s) is just cheap and utterly lacking in class.
I am a Fandom Old. By which I mean, I'm on the high side of 40, and I've been in and out of various fandoms since I was in my early teens, before there was an internet even. (Yes. Really.) Here's the thing. All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again. I liked Endgame, even as I absolutely agree with the perspective that if you have to explain your McGuffin over and over, you've failed at some level as a writer. I would have loved to see more with [redacted ] and [redacted] because they're my faves and I love the actors and how they portray them. But if I didn't? If their portrayal was something I didn't like? I wouldn't tell them, because at the end of the day, they don't owe me jack. They're given a script, and they do their best with what they're given. How that all comes together at the end of the day is not really up to them.
(I can, and will, blame TPTB, because they richly deserve it.)
Thirty years ago, I was part of a fandom that split and went to war with itself over the direction of the series. Some of the people who were involved STILL won't talk to each other. On many levels, none of that had to happen then, and none of this has to happen now.
Accept that canon is what you make of it. Accept that fanfic and fanart have never existed in a vacuum. And also accept that showrunners and TPTB are infamous for losing control and/or perspective of their own characters (George Lucas, anyone?) But for goodness' sake-- leave the actors out of it.
I'm going out of my way to avoid spoilers. But regardless of what happened (or didn't happen) in the film? It's absolutely ridiculous to tag the actors in your complaints. It's ludicrous and embarrassing. Don't like the film? Either ignore it altogether or write a fanfic that fixes it. Blaming the actor(s) is just cheap and utterly lacking in class.
I am a Fandom Old. By which I mean, I'm on the high side of 40, and I've been in and out of various fandoms since I was in my early teens, before there was an internet even. (Yes. Really.) Here's the thing. All of this has happened before and all of it will happen again. I liked Endgame, even as I absolutely agree with the perspective that if you have to explain your McGuffin over and over, you've failed at some level as a writer. I would have loved to see more with [redacted ] and [redacted] because they're my faves and I love the actors and how they portray them. But if I didn't? If their portrayal was something I didn't like? I wouldn't tell them, because at the end of the day, they don't owe me jack. They're given a script, and they do their best with what they're given. How that all comes together at the end of the day is not really up to them.
(I can, and will, blame TPTB, because they richly deserve it.)
Thirty years ago, I was part of a fandom that split and went to war with itself over the direction of the series. Some of the people who were involved STILL won't talk to each other. On many levels, none of that had to happen then, and none of this has to happen now.
Accept that canon is what you make of it. Accept that fanfic and fanart have never existed in a vacuum. And also accept that showrunners and TPTB are infamous for losing control and/or perspective of their own characters (George Lucas, anyone?) But for goodness' sake-- leave the actors out of it.
