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« on: August 23, 2011, 08:45:59 PM »
Thanks, Michael, for that interesting report. I agree with you about the future of the Festival in its present format. MB had a link to a Festival post from 2003 or 2004 and I had forgotten that there was talk of ceasing the Festivals at that point.
My prediction is that *if* Depp Shadows takes off (which is a big *if* given how royally Conan and Fright Night just flopped at the box office), THAT will become the new focus of any convention or fannish activity. People who are into the "original series" (or 1991, etc.) will become a sideline to the main event around the Depp series and its paraphernalia--action figures, video games, etc.
It is truly fascinating to me that the original series continues to garner new fans in their 20s and 30s. If the series were made available on one of the online channels such as hulu, think of how even more widespread the fandom would become.
But it will all seem like very small potatoes if the Depp series really takes off.
I liked how Alex, in one of her interviews for one of the MPI releases (it may have been way back in the early 1990s for the 25th anniversary) was musing about the 50th anniversary and said something like--maybe the reunion will take place via seance! I always thought that was a fitting envoi to the phenomenon of original DS fandom.
G.