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I'm in the same boat. I refuse to watch more Supernatural until it's DONE. That way I can blaze over the episodes I hate and move on rather than seething with anger for a week, hoping they make up for it the next episode.

HOW ARE YOU SO PATIENT.
I always pretend I'm going to do that and I end up watching the episode within one week.

I found myself doing this. But be warned... I was in Phantom of the Opera fandom for awhile and perfectly happy because it was completed... then Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a sequel and ruined it.

BE A PURIST. REJECT HIS REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE YOUR OWN.

I used to think like that, but then... I discovered I really like trying to guess what will happen next, and I love reading fan theories while they can still be true. People have many good ideas...

Yes, sometimes the canon can disappoint. But it would still disappoint if it was complete and I just missed all the fun of expecting it.

I was looking for my fandom in this secret. And I found it...right above a fandom I was in in my early teens :D

MY SHIP WAS WRONG.

WAHHHHHHHHHHHH.

THE BABY TEARS, THEY DO NOT STOP!

I gotta say watching Zutarans lose their shit after the ATLA finale aired was unbelievably hilarious ;) But IMO, if you invest in a hope that's that far out there and unrealistic, you kinda deserve to get burned. When you have perfectly reasonable expectations about proper storytelling and characterization, it's harder to just go "hmf! well, I didn't actually care about that show anyway! So there!"

I'm now really interested in finding out what Heavy's ship is.

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(Anonymous) - 2012-10-22 02:11 (UTC) - Expand

I had such a bad experience of this during the second half of the 7th season of How I Met Your Mother that I'm extremely wary of getting into any other currently-airing TV shows -- HIMYM was the first ever show that I watched week-to-week as it was airing, and might be my last. I stopped watching Parks and Rec partly because of this ~omg paranoia~

When a show or franchise is finished, I don't care if it's horribly flawed. I can think "okay, so there are these issues, the writers fucked up and made it bad, but I can work around that" (like I did with Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The West Wing). With currently-airing shows, however, there's that horrible period of hope and trust and speculation that gets twisted into denial and trepidation and betrayal when things start going to crap, where you hate something but don't want to admit it to yourself because that would mean contemplating the idea that a show that you have all these high hopes and possibilities and theories for is actually going to butcher its plot or characters and go down in history as another one of "those shows" which were great for their first few seasons -- but make sure to stay away from the later ones!

Happened to me outside of shows too. Harry Potter ended with Deathly Hallows, which was awesome and satisfying in a few ways, but a massive letdown in many, many, many others. DC Comics smacked me in the face with the reboot just as I was getting really deeply knowledgeable and invested in that fascinating, sprawling fictional universe and well of continuity. And The Avengers snuck up on me unawares (because I never thought I'd get so emotionally invested in it) and gave me unrealistically ambitious hopes for the characters' futures, then crushed them with "oh lol no we're actually going to screw over your favorite character's story arc in his next movie". Also, Whedon.

*sigh*

Edited 2012-10-21 22:19 (UTC)

then crushed them with "oh lol no we're actually going to screw over your favorite character's story arc in his next movie".

Who is this?

So I was skimming the fandoms, then went "Yay! Keys to the Kingdom! \o/" and, minute later "/o\ House of Night"...I hated that series from the start.

But yeah, I get what you're saying. Personally though, when I'm following an updating canon, the excitement I feel usually makes the risk worth it.

I've done both and I find it's a trade off either way.

Open canons can break your heart, but there's also the excitement of sharing the new material with other fans as it emerges.

Closed canons are much easier to establish your own fanon for. But it can mean a less active fandom, more repetitive fic, and a whole new world of betrayal if the canon is unexpectedly re-opened.

...So basically your headcanon was debunked and you were pissed about that.

Orrrrrr they could have been pissed because a show or comic or something they really liked became shitty or came up with dumb plots and made the characters OOC? It's happened to lots of long-running series and it's not exactly pleasant, you know.

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well, as a writer who would love to write in fandoms as the episodes are airing but getting tired of having fics jossed, it's not so much pissed that headcanon was debunked but disappointed that this fic I have put a lot of time into doesn't slot into canon.

I did that with one series and to this day reading my fic and how horribly I was jossed makes me ill.

:/

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(Anonymous) - 2012-10-22 17:59 (UTC) - Expand

Eh, I get it. I was a Bitter X/1999 Fan. Also liked Gouhou Drug. Unfortunately, CLAMP is never getting back to those despite all interview promises to the contrary, which I only figured out like a decade after they stopped publishing them, lol.

So my rule is: if there's any doubt a series might not get finished, I won't read it. Stopped reading The Wheel of Time when it looked like RJ was going to die before he ever finished it (though now that it's finally getting a last volume, true to my word, I'm going to pick it up again) and I stopped watching SPN when it went past its second "final" season (might go back when the show actually does in), and I dropped Naruto like it was hot and won't read One Piece for the same reasons. Shonen Jump is just going to bleed them dry and I'm not interested in watching that happen.

(coughs) Uh, you should consider typing "Drug and Drop" in the search engine of your choice. You'll get a pleasant surprise.

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See, I can see where you're coming from because it's hard to watch something you love go downhill and to have invested enough energy and time into it that you don't want to admit you don't love it anymore. But in my experience- I like having people I can squee over it with, and I love being able to discuss it with others and it's just not the same when you discover something new and awesome and wander over to a forum and everyone there's already been there done that. It's nice to be able to go right through the source material in one shot, but at the same time there's nothing like an active fandom.

I DON'T SEE MY FANDOM IN THIS SECRET. Haha

I'm split on this one. My most recent fandom's canon let me down, but I feel like I miss out on so much if I wasn't a part of the fandom when the canon was still going on. I guess I like speculation and such. And if you don't take the risk, well...

Closed canons have some advantages, but are way more likely to qualify for Yuletide... *sigh*

You've been burned by the fandom or the canon?

Eh, obviously you and I look for different things in fandom. I find fandoms for ongoing canons to be much more vibrant and energetic than those for completed ones. The incompleteness spurs my imagination. That energy energizes me. That's worth far more to me than the possibility of the canon jumping the shark. As a multishipper I avoid shipwars as much as possible and don't really care if my favorite ships ever become canon. But when I run out of canon, I quickly run out of inspiration and move on.

I've gone through phases of this in the past, but I'm easing up about it at the moment. As long as the showrunner hasn't fucked up any previous shows that I once loved, I'll stick with it as long as it's still entertaining me more than it's irritating me.

I like minor characters best and canon pairings almost always bore me to tears, so it's possible I'm more accustomed to not getting my way than most fans. Not that I never get pissed off, but I know going in that I'm not going to love EVERYTHING. And that I'm probably going to hate a few things, even in the shows I treasure the most.

same here OP same here. I do wonder why I started watching the things I watch
I felt the same for movie too like HP (though there we had the books too), LOTR and recently star trek by JJ. It's actually worse with movies because there are years before the sequels will come out.

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