Orson Scott Card, Etc.

[handful_ofdust]

Woke up this morning to much kerfuffle re Card saying Star Trek: The Original Series sucked, followed by manymanymany people wishing death 'pon him--or at least jumping in to say stuff like: "Jealous much?" "You like Smallville better than STAR TREK?" "You DO know Harlan Ellison actually wrote for Trek, right?" Et al. And then with the "Lost sucks!" and the "WTFOMGBBQ?" and the hurting and the kicking, aiiiieeeeugh.

And all I can think, frankly, is: Man, this shit is really getting old. No, I mean that literally.

Look beneath the cut for more bile, if interested.

TOS is what?--about thirty years old now? Considering I remember watching it when I was six? With TNG at least fifteen, and Voyager a piece-o-crap that I only recall fondly for providing my friends and I with material to lampoon through improv, and I actually can't remember the name of that show which came in between (right, DS9. That was okay). And Enterprise has its fans, though I'm not really one of them, except for episodes involving the Andorans. Might've liked to see the Mirror Universe and Green Orion takes, but I wasn't fast enough, so I'll catch up on Space; or not. Either way works fine for me.

They were appropriate to their time, more or less. They made some people happy, some un-. They're gone now. Way of the wonderfully impermanent world.

Say it with me now: Gene Roddenberry was not a saint, and Card is not a devil. Not everyone likes what you like. Not everyone treats fandom like it's English Lit 101, where you have to at least acknowledge the aftereffects and impact of things you have no fucking interest in whatsoever. Sometimes it's more like the legendary Real World, where if you don't want to read Moby Dick because you tried once and it bored the bejesus out of you, you don't have to. Because you are not being graded, and there is no final exam--just what you like, what you don't, what-fuckin'-ever.

Me, I don't think Card is either an asshat or the best thing since sliced bread; I've read and enjoyed one horror novel he wrote (Lost Boys), filtered out the rest. I hear Ender's Game is good. His rampant Mormonism disturbs me sometimes, but no more or less so than Stephen King's rampant odd Baptist streak. And he has just as much right to post his "uninformed! horrible! mean!" comments in public as any of us do, with exactly as much chance of getting caught in some resultant multi-fandom shitstorm. Such is the kingdom, if not The Kingdom (or even Kingdom Hospital).

And where am I even going with this? Oh, nowhere fast, like usual. But now the boil is lanced, and I have to go wake up Cal. Amoxil ahoy.

Comments

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[coldcrab.livejournal.com]

fandom can be scary.

Is the Lost Boys you're refering to one that has been adapted into a movie?

Ender's Game was pretty good. I have never managed to get into the rest of the series though...

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[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

As in THE Lost Boys? No. This was later, possibly better (depending on what you want out of horror), definitely different.

[writer-space.livejournal.com]

I do find OSC's blatant homophobia disturbing, but that matters not a bit when it comes to his right to express his opinion. As for the widening Trek kerfuffle...so much to say, so little time. Enterprise was one of the most static, pointless things ever seen on TV, and though it didn't kill the franchise, it definitely drove an additional stake through its heart. Time to give Trek a rest.

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Well, big-ass Mormon thing, etc. As for Trek generally, I really don't care, so maybe I shouldn't be shooting my mouth off...but then again, I do have a friend who once interned on Voyager, and he sent 'round a gloating mass email after Enterprise was cancelled. Dude has Brannon Braga issues, yo.;)