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Current Talk '05 II / Re: In Defense of Roger Davis -
« on: December 28, 2005, 09:42:20 PM »While there are fans who incorrectly think of DS as an experiment in camp or who get off on the bloopers, is this really what the majority of fans are into?
I don't honestly think it's what the majority of DS fans are into - but there are definitely people who make the bloopers their main focus. I've followed several different DS online boards and I've subscribed to a few different fanzines and it's been impossible not to notice that there are certain people who only post/write in whenever a blooper comes up. In fact, they seem to find bloopers that I swear the majority of us would barely take notice of - and that would certainly seem to be because they spend little to none of their DS viewing time paying attention to the storylines or the actors' performances and instead focus almost entirely if not exclusively on everything that's going on in the background and in the periphery of scenes. Personally, I've never understood the utter fascination the bloopers hold for some people, particularly when it's seemingly to the exclusion of any other aspects of DS - but I suppose it takes all kinds...
All that being said, though, I place at least part of the blame for the fascination with bloopers squarely on the media because all too often they've played up the bloopers and the supposed "camp" nature of DS. However, it's been nice to see that of late there seems to be a shift in at least certain parts of the media away from that to a focus that's more on what I think most of us feel really makes DS so special, namely the storylines and the actors' performances. There's no denying the fact that the aspects of DS that the media focuses on can certainly affect some people's perceptions of the show. So, if the media continues to focus more on the DS storylines/performances, that can only help to change the general perceptions of the show.
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Unfortunately, the few who do make the rude remarks, or who focus on mistakes, are the loudest it seems. Alas, that seems to be the way with most things in life.
So true. I mean, just look at the whole call-in talk show culture - how many people actually call in to praise something/someone? Not very many. The vast majority of the people who take part in those shows seemingly do so merely to make fun of something/someone or to rip it/them apart. Yet another cultural phenomenon that I don't quite get...