I Agree With Just About Every Word Of This
…long post in my online friend Mary Jane’s blog, A New England. It’s called Why diminished expectations can be a good thing.
It’s about, among other things, the way creators of “cult” shows, like but not limited to Buffy’s Joss Whedon, get worshipped to a degree out of realistic proportion to their very real accomplishments.
Many of us who dissented from the Joss-worshipping fandom have encountered those whose emotional investment in the show was so strong they cannot let it go. No matter how much they were punished for being so foolish as to care about his characters.
They continue to look at Joss the way Luke Skywalker might look at Obi-Wan. And man, that ain’t healthy.