Meme: The June Something: Fourteen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

This is a fandom meme created by squidgiepdx.





Day 14: What fandom broke your heart?

BBC Sherlock. I was devastated when I realized that the show's creators (who prided themselves on being Clever Lads) had no solution for the Fall. To be fair, it was my first fandom and my first experience thinking of a TV show in those terms. I am much more jaded now :)

Comments

[smallhobbit]

So completely true!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

:) If they hadn't set themselves us as being #1 Fanboys, I don't think it would've been as much of a disappointment. But when much later, I read that Moffat's favourite was Valley of Fear, well, things started to make a horrible sense.

[castiron]

I still haven't seen anything since the end of season 2. I was so disappointed in how the setup at the pool was resolved at the beginning of s2 that I didn't trust them resolve the fall in a way that felt satisfactory, and by time s3 came out I'd lost interest in otherwise following the show.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yeah, I can see how the pool resolution would be disappointing too. I watched it to the end and by then disappointment had turned to absolutely bewilderment. It was batshit crazy. But I had never been in a fandom and never thought about TV like that. TV was TV, and what happened happened and it never occurred to me to be disappointed, I think. I liked stuff and didn't like stuff but I was never invested in a show like BBC Sherlock. And the creators were Clever but it went off in a weird tangent.

[debriswoman]

I am grateful to the series for connections made to folk, but ended up feeling that they could have done so much more

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Nicely put!