"Known for a complete lack of objectivity in relation to their preferred focus. Usually argue with circular logic that they refuse to acknowledge. Arguments or debates with such are usually futile. Every flaw is spun into semi-virtues and everything else, blown to comedic, complimentary proportions."
"I think my favourite viewing of 'Fear Her' was when I watched it with Simon and he slaughtered it like a starving man being presented with a steak. Not only were his observations quite inimitable (and I learnt a few new colourful phrases) but they were so vitriolic I was immediately put on the defensive (like we Doctor Who fans are when our favourite show is under attack — we can tear it to pieces as much as we like but when outsiders dare to look in and criticise it you can forget it) and forced myself to find the positives."
"Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits who bray like mules if you so much as mention the word "cake," and the good thing in question can never be the same again."
—Zero Punctuation on Portal 2
"I'm not gonna get into this cycle with every two-bit comic book movie that Marvel shits out in a carefully planned 28-stage campaign. You will not hook me with a teaser for a teaser for a featurette for a DVD extra for a trailer for a teaser, Marvel. You hear me? YOU CAN GO TO HELL. And I'm not watching any goddamn PARODY gifs of any of this shit, either.
Unless you got a Silver Surfer movie coming soon. I'll eat that shit right up."
Unless you got a Silver Surfer movie coming soon. I'll eat that shit right up."
—Drew Magary
, "They Have Teasers For Trailers Now"
, "They Have Teasers For Trailers Now""It's not about whether something makes sense, or whether something is of quality, or if something is worthwhile, it's honestly much more about whether a thing is KNOWN and if the decision upon that knowing was LIKE or FAIL. Most people choose LIKE for Superman before their cognitive faculties develop, so their blind spot to any inadequacy can be large."
"When you are truly a fan of something, you are blind to its faults. It's like being in a relationship; when things are great you're oblivious to the tiny little flaws and when things are bad you look for deeper meaning and cling to your memories of the good times to strengthen your faith that things will get good again. Smallville understands this and so they've gotten really, really great at exploiting that emotional response in the Superman fans who have become Smallville viewers."
''Along with great fame comes great fandom and along with great fandom come weirdos"
—Graham Norton, describing Benedict Cumberbatch's fandom in The Graham Norton Show
Would these same practices (close attention, careful rereading, intense discussion, even the decipherment of texts in foreign or archaic languages) be read as extreme if they were applied to Shakespeare instead of Star Trek, Italian Opera instead of Japanese animation, Balzac instead of Beauty and the Beast? In other times and places, Shakespeare, opera and Balzac, after all, have been part of popular rather than elite culture and were appreciated by a mass audience rather than institutionally sanctioned and professionally trained critics.
— Henry Jenkins, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
