The rest of us have just been saying that for.oh.I dunno.MONTHS? Here's my question: Why does Anna care so much? Geez, honey. SPEAKING of Edith.GREAT plan she and MaMA came up with, to bring little Marigold home to Downton. And she thinks there's something wrong with Edith? At least EDITH can work and play well with others! Has anyone noticed that Mary has no female friends? It's quite humorous. Although she reminds me too much of that awful teacher who upset PaPA every week at dinner. That could be a storyline in and of itself. I have to laugh though.WHY does his EX fiance want him now? She's going to be a terribly unhappily married woman if she takes him back. Now even TONY is all " Mary, you ignorant slut!" I doubt he'll be pining away anymore now that she was making out with what'shisname at the moving pictures. I have an alternate suggestion: It’s time to tear down the fandom hierarchies and start having more interesting conversations about the stories we all share.Mary, you ignorant slut. If you’re looking to be part of a fandom filled with people who experience a story in exactly the same way as you do, then get ready to be part of a fandom of one. That prior knowledge, along with a million other identities and experiences unique to you, just makes you a different kind of fan.
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If infinite ways of being a fan can co-exist, then loving a TV show as someone who is a fan of the books doesn’t make you a “better” fan. The idea of someone owning a story is the modern idea, a notion that came along with the rise of capitalism and copyright law. While this might seem like a modern idea, it is actually an old one. Fanworks, just by existing, actively reject the notion that a story can belong to anyone. This is why creating fanworks is such a subversive act.
They don’t negate or invalidate one another. Infinite ways of being a fan can and do co-exist.
Someone loving something in a different way than you or with a different interpretation than yours doesn’t invalidate your way of loving that thing. I am not suggesting that my preference of sometimes waiting to read the book until after I have seen the adaptation is a better way of being a story fan, only that it’s not a worse way either. Call me an unrepentant optimist, but I think the same may be true for fandom hierarchies. Not only do I think that’s not the case (they’re both equally capable of great and terrible things), but I think the cultural bias is slowly shifting into something more neutral. The unique case of Game of Thrones has yet to shake society’s long-held belief that books are capable of greater, more important storytelling than TV. You are, in some way, prioritizing the viewing experience over the reading experience. Unless you wait to watch the TV show, then you are changing your future experience of reading the final books in the A Song of Ice and Fire series. Interestingly, as the Game of Thrones TV show has progressed past the book series, fans of the book have lost the option of reading ahead in an unprecedented adaptation experience. Literature is the more sacred storytelling form. The unspoken judgment happening there is that of course you would prioritize the book version over the TV version. I think it makes me a different kind of fan with a different kind of perspective. I don’t think that makes me less of a fan. Currently, I am actively fighting my desire to read The Expanse novels or the Outlander books because I don’t want to be spoiled for what’s going to come next on two of my favorite shows on television, or color my experience of watching the adaptation with the comparisons and expectations that come with having already read the source material. Would-be fans don’t want to color their first experience of the source material with the interpretation of the adaptation. Look, I get the logic of wanting to read the book first. It’s built on the idea that a story can and should be owned and, if you don’t own it, someone else will.
Fandom hierarchies are built on the foundational idea that there is a finite amount of cultural space to be conquered, and that sharing it represents a loss of power rather than the gaining of more, diverse perspectives to consider and discuss. This need to create a hierarchy of fandom seems related to some of the larger, higher-stakes cultural problems we’re having right now. Our knee-jerk judgment of seeing those who have read the book as being “better” fans is a flawed one, rooted in a tendency to create hierarchies, or systems of power and ownership.
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