Post by lordhowl on Feb 19, 2010 14:50:27 GMT -5
Kripke is stepping down as showrunner, but a Showrunner is who handles the "paperwork" side to things. They're the ones that deal with the network, the legal stuff, etc and pull double duty as the head writer. Considering only ONE source out of all the articles coming out have stated this, there's no reason whatsoever to believe that Eric Kripke would have no hand in the storytelling. If anything, he'll be having a LARGER role in the storytelling side.
I enjoy Emily's character, but the first episode was a bit 'omg, this is seriously what you guys think of us?' because there are a few... crazies out in our fandom who are EXACTLY like that character and are the ones who have interacted with the cast at conventions. It's also the picture painted in media articles, so it's embarrassing. While I'm not a Wincest writer myself, it has gotten frustrating over the years for many of the fans that the impressions of a small, obsessive group of stalkers has permanently cemented this image.
What can I say? Fandom has done a lot more POSITIVE things such as fundraisers for our troops overseas (Operation Winchester), auctions and fundraisers for the cancer society, food banks, animal rights, etc.
And LOL! Chuck is actually Eric Kripke Well, not PLAYED by him, but is an insert of Eric.
So, Kripke was using a fun house mirror to pull a Vonnegut pulling a Vonnegut?
I'm glad he's not leaving the story supervision. If it was only in one source that said this, it was the one I caught.
Becky Rosen was a comedy part, and of course, they would take the most comical person you could think of. Anyone who is in fandom to any degree has met somebody like that, or have at least started to read their fanfiction.
The media, of course, is going to go for the "weirdness" angle, and the fans will play it up to the camera, too. In a way, many of the fans are into the weirdness angle too. Problem is, I don't think anybody really understands fandom, not even us fans really do, so the media has nothing but the "weirdness" angle.
Fact is, though, the media generally has no problem making a lot of money off fans. We're their bread and butter now. The plots of high-grossing mainstream movies and TV shows now would have been considered fringe science fiction concepts in the '60s. The fan culture is what has really been moving pop culture in general, for stories, movies and television. In the same way Hip-hop has been driving music.
Neither Emily nor Katharine are getting the parts that I think their talents deserve. I mean, Emily managed to carry the entire first half of Unleashed without really any help from the screenplay. She had so many silences, pauses and solo scenes. You expect that from, say, Meryl Streep.
Emily is doing better than Katharine, who gets parts but eighth or ninth billings or below. I would feel bad if all through the rest of her career the best part she ever played was when she was 18.
Where I really felt discomfort in the humor was in the parts they gave both Emily and Katharine in "Another Cinderella Story."