05-22-2015, 11:59 PM
(05-22-2015, 08:20 PM)SpaceAnJL Wrote: It's particularly offensive when half the big box office out there is essentially all the 'weird crap' people got the piss taken out of them for liking for years. The show has become all about self-shame, and a lack of dignity and self-respect.
Yes. Like I keep saying, being a casual fan of the major fandoms like Star Wars and LOTR has become TOTALLY mainstream. I was at the mall again yesterday and *every* store is packed with Star Wars and Avengers and Batman stuff. It's very noticeable. And I don't mean cheesy little gift-shops, I mean upscale department stores. Star Wars stuff for babies, Star Wars stuff for adults...
Maybe being a *hardcore* fan is still considered a bridge too far, but everybody is jumping on the superhero bandwagon. Maybe that's rather insulting to people who have loved those fandoms all along, maybe it's kind of poser-ish to wear a t-shirt when you don't actually have a deep love for the source material. But these themes are big, big business now, and it's simply not true that "omg, Star Wars and Spiderman are for dorks."
I like the MCU movies as much as the next person does. I've always, from childhood, had a fascination for anything with a magical/supernatural angle to it, but I just never got deep into the major fandoms.
Fun fact: I had a cool 8th-grade teacher who had us read The Hobbit for school. I've just never tackled the trilogy because I suspect the writing-style would be too slow for my tastes...