39,327
edits
Fan Myopia: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
prefix>Import Bot (Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.FanMyopia 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.FanMyopia, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 15:
* Failing to understand why a cherished TV show was canceled, or why a book, movie, or video game doesn't sell highly, when in fact hardly anyone was interested in it aside from its cult fanbase. It's even conceivable that it wasn't [[Screwed By the Network]], but rather that people simply weren't into it.
* Failing to understand how one can be just a "casual fan" of a particular work. [[Complaining About People Not Liking the Show|Or, indeed, not a fan at all]].
* Being appalled when the creator or writer of a show/song/book doesn't know as much as the fan knows about their work, and seemingly isn't interested in something they wrote or starred in many years earlier. Perhaps an effect of assuming that the creator shares exactly the [[Fan Disillusionment|same attitudes]] as the fans. This can lead to fans thinking they know the show better than the people who created it. Also leads to accusations of [[
** This was probably inspired by several [[Real Life]] incidents at ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'' conventions where various actors were asked highly technical questions about various gadgets featured on the show. For instance, James Doohan got asked so many times about how things like warp drive or the transporter worked that he actually made up explanations to reply to those questions with.
* Making demands that an actor must "give to fans" by doing cons or DVD commentaries, or demands that actors become as fannish as fans and always refer to the work as the highlight of their career. Notorious examples of actors being bashed by certain fans for not being fannish: Sarah Michelle Gellar by ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fans, Christopher Eccleston by ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' fans, Josette Simon by ''[[
* Telling their fandom [[In Joke|in-jokes]] constantly, seemingly unaware that most of the people who are listening/reading won't understand what they are running on about.
* Assuming that their favored work (or media, or genre, etc.) is superior to and/or "different" from all other similar types of work, media, or genre, not realizing that their favored work (or media, or genre, etc.) is, in fact, very similar to all similar works.
| |||