I'm really touched that you read my Weiss fic, you know :-)
I sometimes - more in the past than now - feel very apologetic about the way WK ate my brain, and wonder if people are sitting back rolling their eyes and wishing I'd get back to/move on to a worthwhile fandom. People both inside and outside the fandom talk about the cheesiness of the storyline, its plotholes and general nonsensical nature, low production values and so on. I've done that myself, and felt quite defensive about loving something so "bad". Which is, I've decided, stupid. It's no cheesier or more filled with plot holes than the canon of any other series-fandom, and does some of the stuff it sets out to do very well (the introduction of the characters I like most is done in a very restrained manner, with no attempt to fling the coolest villains at the heroes, and for the first viewers it must have come as a gradual dawning realisation/unpleasant shock to understand that the villains had paranormal abilities). It's as "worthwhile" as any other fandom and I'm going to try to remember that (because it really has eaten my brain for a long time and doesn't show any signs of stopping - I'm not entirely sure why it has, though).
Did I send you any WK? I have the OVAs (set between the two series) and the second series, Gluhen as .avi files. Not that I want you to feel obligated to watch it :-) But it's not as bad as both its detractors and sometimes its fans feel constrained to say!
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Date: 2006-04-03 10:36 pm (UTC)I'm really touched that you read my Weiss fic, you know :-)
I sometimes - more in the past than now - feel very apologetic about the way WK ate my brain, and wonder if people are sitting back rolling their eyes and wishing I'd get back to/move on to a worthwhile fandom. People both inside and outside the fandom talk about the cheesiness of the storyline, its plotholes and general nonsensical nature, low production values and so on. I've done that myself, and felt quite defensive about loving something so "bad". Which is, I've decided, stupid. It's no cheesier or more filled with plot holes than the canon of any other series-fandom, and does some of the stuff it sets out to do very well (the introduction of the characters I like most is done in a very restrained manner, with no attempt to fling the coolest villains at the heroes, and for the first viewers it must have come as a gradual dawning realisation/unpleasant shock to understand that the villains had paranormal abilities). It's as "worthwhile" as any other fandom and I'm going to try to remember that (because it really has eaten my brain for a long time and doesn't show any signs of stopping - I'm not entirely sure why it has, though).
Did I send you any WK? I have the OVAs (set between the two series) and the second series, Gluhen as .avi files. Not that I want you to feel obligated to watch it :-) But it's not as bad as both its detractors and sometimes its fans feel constrained to say!