Running the Asylum/Quotes

That's what I always hate about revivals of really old franchises: the creators are always just a little bit too much in love with the subject matter. That's why everyone in the new Doctor Who spends all their time alternating between sucking the Doctor's balls and asking for more.

—Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

—Hunter S. Thompson

Awesome, canon being written by the people who think that turbolaser bolts must have an invisible component that fires ahead of the visible beam because of a slight mistiming in a few VFX elements in a 30-year-old movie.

—Something Awful forum poster Mc Spanky, upon hearing that a Star Wars technical manual was written by a Star Wars fansite admin

Any time an active wrestler is involved in that process of management or creative it is a recipe for disaster, because you can throw objectivity right out the window.

—Jim Ross, re: WCW, Brian Pillman: Loose Cannon

I even wrote a script! Let's see, uh...(Looks at paper) Lupa and 90's Kid start making out. Oh, wait, that's my fanfiction. (Looks at another paper) Ah, here it is! 90's Kid and Lupa start making out!

—90's Kid, The Nostalgia Critic review of Simon Sez.

These days, the majority of the comic book audience is 40-somethings who are not necessarily interested in comic books as a medium or panel progression or sequential narrative. They are probably interested in Wolverine. There is a large nostalgic component in there and there's nothing wrong with it. But if those people then begin to influence the books themselves or increasingly the movies or the television series then they will want their story to refer to stories that they remember. It becomes very incestuous and over a few decades you get a very limited dwindling gene pool. And you get stories that have become weak through inbreeding.

—Alan Moore

Have you ever read one of those Yu-Gi-Oh! fan fics where the author clearly has no friggin clue about story structure whatsoever, and they end up making me and the pharaoh long lost brothers, and then they completely forget to stick any card games into the plot? If so then you'll find X-Men Origins: Wolverine to be extremely familiar territory, as it plays out precisely like a fanfic Gone Horribly Wrong.

—Melvin of Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series

I've seen 12-yr-olds write fanfics that respected Lore and was less Mary Sue than Ward.

—A fairly typical comment in Warhammer 40,000 fandom