I have WAY TOO MANY SHOWS TO WATCH...

[telophase]

...and not enough time to do all the other things I want to do, but this response about fanfiction (on cerusee's LJ) from John Rogers, a producer/writer on Leverage, is SO FULL OF SANE that I might actually be forced to watch an episode at some point.

But not for a while. I can't keep up with my shows and art and crafts and moving at the moment. :)

Comments

[lady_ganesh]

The show is completely full of win. FULL OF WIN.

...and I have so much to watch I've blown off the whole second season so far!

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, I'd love to see the original asker's response to that. (Questioner? Whatever.) 'Cause clearly he's looking for some kind of EVIL FANFIC IS EVIL reaction, and... FAIL.

Leverage is fun! I've dropped behind in watching, so I end up catching up every few weeks, but it's always entertaining, if not necessarily compelling.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm getting a shark jumping feel from the show this season. It seems a little stale, now that certain character subplots from the first season are resolved. Hard to say for certain.

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Muah hah hah.

It's huge, huge fun. Enormously entertaining. I found out from looking at the little producer blog videos on TNT's website that they have a professional pickpocket on staff for consultation, and in the writer's room, they have a giant Wall of Crime--all of the cons they reference are actual cons. And apparently, all of the technology and gadgets on the show is real, too, albeit not necessarily in wide use yet.


I really love John Rogers--all of the writers and producers, actually, but especially Rogers.

I have a lot of respect for people who are tuned into or at least aware enough of fan culture enough to understand it, even if it's not personally their bag, even if there's no gratification for them in it. I remember years ago, Chris Golden (one of the bigger writers for Buffy The Vampire Slayer) contemptuously dismissing fanfiction, because he only understood it as being some kind of slavish, bloodless imitation of the show itself, something sad little fans did hoping to get jobs writing for the show. Why else could they possibly want to write Buffy stories, if they didn't want his job? It was so irritating (it's demonstrably not true that you cannot produce both fanwork and professional work, if that is your desire; I could spend hours, days, scraping up examples of the many ways in which amateur and professional creative work intersect), and so clueless; he had no idea where fanwork came from, or what its producers got out of it. Bad show.

[onthehill]

YOU MUST WATCH LEVERAGE! LEVERAGE RULES!