[ SECRET POST #3395 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3395 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Re: Transcript by OP

[fscom]

I don’t understand the “Ruined my childhood”/”Ruined forever” attitude and I just can’t sympathize with it. I’ve felt disappointed when a new version or installment of something isn’t good or makes changes I don’t like, but it never seems to have that much impact on me in the long run, no matter what it is.

Part of it might be that so many of my biggest fandoms (Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Batman, Sherlock Holmes) pre-date me, have been long-running, and have had so much output over the years that it’s hard to take it personally and get really angry about any one piece of output because I know this was someone else's childhood before I was even born and there is already so much to choose from and I can always just wait 5 minutes and there’ll be something new from one of them. Maybe I just don’t know how to feel differently about smaller franchises.

Ghostbusters *WAS* my childhood for several years. I practically wore out the tape re-watching it over and over. The label was all grimy from being handled so often. The sequel is the first time I can remember anticipating a yet-to-be-released movie and getting excited for it and making sure I got my butt to the theater somehow. Nevertheless, I’m excited for the new movie and I know that if I wind up not liking it, I will be fine and I will still love Ghostbusters.

(I get the feeling people who insist this movie will be bad are *hoping* that will be the case simply so they can maintain that any kind of reboot or adaptation of their childhood favorites is wrong.)

I can’t say this kind of stuff out loud. I’ll just get a lecture from some fanboy about how wrong I am and how I clearly didn’t love [insert thing here] all that much or relate to it in the “right” way if I’m not wailing over how my childhood was RUINED FOREVER. Whatever. No sympathy.