Oh hey. I hope everything went ok. Nothing like surprise pickups.
And yes to this. I'm not sure if it was here I mentioned this but I suspect that on-line fandom only represents a small proportion of fans who ship or even know what shipping means. (Man, I'd love some stats on that).
It's one of the argument in my essay. As much as there's a group where this is wanted (or not wanted) there's a possibly even bigger group that the concept hasn't even crossed their minds. And could, quite possibly, alienate a major section of the viewing public.
There's a rather massive discussion that could be had about the societal reasons why they wouldn't go there in a mainstream show, but that's probably not something to get into here. It's interesting though and part of why I considered posting something about it. (but looking at the poll results it probably won't happen...;D)
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Date: 2013-05-11 08:03 am (UTC)And yes to this. I'm not sure if it was here I mentioned this but I suspect that on-line fandom only represents a small proportion of fans who ship or even know what shipping means. (Man, I'd love some stats on that).
It's one of the argument in my essay. As much as there's a group where this is wanted (or not wanted) there's a possibly even bigger group that the concept hasn't even crossed their minds. And could, quite possibly, alienate a major section of the viewing public.
There's a rather massive discussion that could be had about the societal reasons why they wouldn't go there in a mainstream show, but that's probably not something to get into here. It's interesting though and part of why I considered posting something about it. (but looking at the poll results it probably won't happen...;D)
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