I don't mind they are doing episodes that have nothing to do with the Apocalypse.
At this point I'm thouroughly sick of comedy filler. It's worse for me than the Season 7 Buffy apocalypse where at least they talked about it.
What I did mind was the treatment of the female fans in this episode.
Of course it was bad but that doesn't surprise me anymore. I would have to check back in the earlier Seasons if a lot of the female characters I liked were written by freelance writers but since they have become a fixed writing team, they managed to hit on practically all of my squicks there. Jo begat Bela begat Ruby2.
And since "Becky" has been modelled after a prominent LJ-fan (who finds that flattering), I don't know how much I should be creeped out by the fact that Chuck aka the creator "landed" her in the end. Whereas in RL Jared thinks fondly of words like "restraining order".
I don't know if that was Kripke's fantasy convention a la "why don't more guys like my guys show? I'm a guy, flail" yet kept the stuff in he knows about online fandom.
I just am over this whole fan meta - too much at this point. Demian and Barnes from TwoP get the hero-shoutout, Becky gets to be the creator's squeeze and the German fan who actually dared to nitpick like me got whacked. Whatever.
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At this point I'm thouroughly sick of comedy filler. It's worse for me than the Season 7 Buffy apocalypse where at least they talked about it.
What I did mind was the treatment of the female fans in this episode.
Of course it was bad but that doesn't surprise me anymore. I would have to check back in the earlier Seasons if a lot of the female characters I liked were written by freelance writers but since they have become a fixed writing team, they managed to hit on practically all of my squicks there. Jo begat Bela begat Ruby2.
And since "Becky" has been modelled after a prominent LJ-fan (who finds that flattering), I don't know how much I should be creeped out by the fact that Chuck aka the creator "landed" her in the end. Whereas in RL Jared thinks fondly of words like "restraining order".
I don't know if that was Kripke's fantasy convention a la "why don't more guys like my guys show? I'm a guy, flail" yet kept the stuff in he knows about online fandom.
I just am over this whole fan meta - too much at this point. Demian and Barnes from TwoP get the hero-shoutout, Becky gets to be the creator's squeeze and the German fan who actually dared to nitpick like me got whacked. Whatever.