There have been a couple of fandoms (most notably Andromeda) where I came close to prefacing every post with 'I don't know why I keep watching, but...', but it was still something about the show itself that kept me fascinated, and when that disappeared I simply stopped watching, which seems the logical course of action, but apparently not to everyone.
Merlin has quite the right balance of being genuinely entertaining and having depth so far and I hope they keep that up.
I hope so, too. I'll admit what bugged me a bit about that post about how people shouldn't migrate into Merlin fandom wasn't so much the pointing out of race and gender issues (I can definitely see where she's coming from there, even if I think she exaggerated a bit), but the general insistence about how it's bad tv and the only thing that might make it watchable is the slash factor, because I've heard that too many times about Torchwood already, where it isn't true, either.
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Date: 2009-01-09 12:46 am (UTC)Merlin has quite the right balance of being genuinely entertaining and having depth so far and I hope they keep that up.
I hope so, too. I'll admit what bugged me a bit about that post about how people shouldn't migrate into Merlin fandom wasn't so much the pointing out of race and gender issues (I can definitely see where she's coming from there, even if I think she exaggerated a bit), but the general insistence about how it's bad tv and the only thing that might make it watchable is the slash factor, because I've heard that too many times about Torchwood already, where it isn't true, either.