on the podcasts
Jan. 29th, 2006 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
somedaybitchi think most fans miss the point of the podcasts, and the whining is buggin'.
he's treating the fans like professionals in the creative process.
he's letting them in to the conversations that would normally happen in the writer's room, between the paid professionals and the actors and the exec producers and the directors and key grip and the boom guy.
he's treating the fans with the respect they deserve by letting them inside. but most fans are too self-absorbed, and i don't mean that to be insulting, to understand it. all the fans want is what they want, and most don't bother, or refuse to acknowledge, the very real impact that production has on the creative process. but they're also missing the very large point, that any fanfic writer should intimately know, that not every idea is good. sometimes you just have to write the crap because that's the only way you're going to get to the good stuff; your writing partners will tell you it sucks, or it's good but it isn't working, or your actors will come in and say, 'yo, so not what my character would do'. that's the WHOLE POINT OF THE PROCESS, and you're mad about being included in the process.
"but he's an arrogant assssssssssssssss." well, duh. he's a writer. and here's something to think about, would it be better if he was funnier, in your opinion, and more humble, in your opinion? would that make the podcasts groovy and "in the know"? are you pitching a fit because you don't like what he's saying, or because you don't like how he's saying it?
the process is the process, and great stuff gets left behind. sometimes what makes the screen works better as a result and sometimes it doesn't. art isn't perfect because people aren't perfect.
if you can't deal with what Ron says in his podcasts then here's a wacky thought; stop listening. a solid case can be made for too much meta.
but can you stop WHINING ABOUT IT IF YOU CHOOSE TO KEEP LISTENING? that's like stepping out in front of a car and wondering why you got hit. use a crosswalk for frak's sake.
he's treating the fans like professionals in the creative process.
he's letting them in to the conversations that would normally happen in the writer's room, between the paid professionals and the actors and the exec producers and the directors and key grip and the boom guy.
he's treating the fans with the respect they deserve by letting them inside. but most fans are too self-absorbed, and i don't mean that to be insulting, to understand it. all the fans want is what they want, and most don't bother, or refuse to acknowledge, the very real impact that production has on the creative process. but they're also missing the very large point, that any fanfic writer should intimately know, that not every idea is good. sometimes you just have to write the crap because that's the only way you're going to get to the good stuff; your writing partners will tell you it sucks, or it's good but it isn't working, or your actors will come in and say, 'yo, so not what my character would do'. that's the WHOLE POINT OF THE PROCESS, and you're mad about being included in the process.
"but he's an arrogant assssssssssssssss." well, duh. he's a writer. and here's something to think about, would it be better if he was funnier, in your opinion, and more humble, in your opinion? would that make the podcasts groovy and "in the know"? are you pitching a fit because you don't like what he's saying, or because you don't like how he's saying it?
the process is the process, and great stuff gets left behind. sometimes what makes the screen works better as a result and sometimes it doesn't. art isn't perfect because people aren't perfect.
if you can't deal with what Ron says in his podcasts then here's a wacky thought; stop listening. a solid case can be made for too much meta.
but can you stop WHINING ABOUT IT IF YOU CHOOSE TO KEEP LISTENING? that's like stepping out in front of a car and wondering why you got hit. use a crosswalk for frak's sake.
