BTW, this is totally going to exceed the character limit. Don't you love me when I ramble? :D
I think continuing the storyline between Danny and Rikki would have had a lot of dramatic potential - perhaps too much dramatic potential for TPTB because it seems like 3-episode-arcs and baby drama are the most dramatic stories they can handle. Their continuity is spotty on the best of days, but I was optimistic at the beginning of the season. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Anna or her desire to have a family - more power to her. But that's in real life - this is fiction we're talking about here, and TPTB can try to spin it until we all get dizzy - but it's not going to work.
If you accept whatever TPTB tells you without question, you might believe that all of the baby/marriage/retconning-last-season-to-accommodate-it nonsense is a-ok, and more power to you if that's the case.
If you are willing to take huge leaps to Make It Work and accept that you have to really suspend your disbelief to swallow some of this stuff - hey, if it makes the show enjoyable to you, that's all that matters. More power to you, I envy your ability to sit back and take it all in.
If you can come up with a way for it all to make sense, a way to interpret everything that has happened so that it all works for you - that's awesome for you. More power to you, especially if you can explain your interpretation in a way that makes sense to other people (even if they may not agree). I ain't mad at ya, do your thing.
But for the people who expect it to make sense as-is - without interpretation, broad suspension of disbelief and the willingness to eat whatever drivel they feed you and say it tastes like chocolate - this blows.
This is why I don't want to get into the fandom for any other shows. NY is my first and only fandom, and I'm not branching out. When you start interacting with other fans, several things happen. Yes, some of those things are good (and arguably worth joining fandom for), but one thing that can be very bad is that you start to give the show more thought. You start to analyze things, you start to discuss the plots and the characters and everything in between. You start to speculate and even develop expectations based on all of this discussion and speculation. The reason that this can be very bad is that if - or perhaps when - it all goes in an undesirable direction (such as down the toilet), you're left feeling disappointed and unable to enjoy the show the way you once did. You want it to live up to your expectations, but it will (perhaps inevitably) fail. Yet you still feel some amount of obligation to watch the show because you're more attached to it than you might be to other shows.
Of course, some people have no trouble dropping the show - or can drop it more easily than the rest of us.
Damnit, CSI:NY, I wish I knew how to quit you!
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First things first. DL (as shitty as it may be) is canon. I know that and frankly, I don't give a damn because I can ignore canon to fill my fanon needs.
Ah, and there is one of the big rifts between the figurative Us and Them. Some people expect canon to be taken as the gospel truth, with no other interpretation allowed. But the fact is, what's on the show is fiction, and some people are more willing to fiddle with that fiction than others.
Let's face it - if I write a story where Hawkes got beamed down by aliens and gets Adam pregnant with his 3-tentacled assbaby, it's no less 'real' than what actually happens on the show every week. As much as people love it - and believe me, I do love parts of the show (perhaps even a majority of it) - it's FAKE. There are a lot of differences in fans - it's not just differences in how we interpret canon or chemistry or whatever else. Sometimes it's differences in how and why we watch - and what we do with the show they put on the TV every week. Once it has aired, it becomes just as much *mine* as anybody else's.
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BTW, this is totally going to exceed the character limit. Don't you love me when I ramble? :D
I think continuing the storyline between Danny and Rikki would have had a lot of dramatic potential - perhaps too much dramatic potential for TPTB because it seems like 3-episode-arcs and baby drama are the most dramatic stories they can handle. Their continuity is spotty on the best of days, but I was optimistic at the beginning of the season. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Anna or her desire to have a family - more power to her. But that's in real life - this is fiction we're talking about here, and TPTB can try to spin it until we all get dizzy - but it's not going to work.
If you accept whatever TPTB tells you without question, you might believe that all of the baby/marriage/retconning-last-season-to-accommodate-it nonsense is a-ok, and more power to you if that's the case.
If you are willing to take huge leaps to Make It Work and accept that you have to really suspend your disbelief to swallow some of this stuff - hey, if it makes the show enjoyable to you, that's all that matters. More power to you, I envy your ability to sit back and take it all in.
If you can come up with a way for it all to make sense, a way to interpret everything that has happened so that it all works for you - that's awesome for you. More power to you, especially if you can explain your interpretation in a way that makes sense to other people (even if they may not agree). I ain't mad at ya, do your thing.
But for the people who expect it to make sense as-is - without interpretation, broad suspension of disbelief and the willingness to eat whatever drivel they feed you and say it tastes like chocolate - this blows.
This is why I don't want to get into the fandom for any other shows. NY is my first and only fandom, and I'm not branching out. When you start interacting with other fans, several things happen. Yes, some of those things are good (and arguably worth joining fandom for), but one thing that can be very bad is that you start to give the show more thought. You start to analyze things, you start to discuss the plots and the characters and everything in between. You start to speculate and even develop expectations based on all of this discussion and speculation. The reason that this can be very bad is that if - or perhaps when - it all goes in an undesirable direction (such as down the toilet), you're left feeling disappointed and unable to enjoy the show the way you once did. You want it to live up to your expectations, but it will (perhaps inevitably) fail. Yet you still feel some amount of obligation to watch the show because you're more attached to it than you might be to other shows.
Of course, some people have no trouble dropping the show - or can drop it more easily than the rest of us.
Damnit, CSI:NY, I wish I knew how to quit you!
Ah, and there is one of the big rifts between the figurative Us and Them. Some people expect canon to be taken as the gospel truth, with no other interpretation allowed. But the fact is, what's on the show is fiction, and some people are more willing to fiddle with that fiction than others.
Let's face it - if I write a story where Hawkes got beamed down by aliens and gets Adam pregnant with his 3-tentacled assbaby, it's no less 'real' than what actually happens on the show every week. As much as people love it - and believe me, I do love parts of the show (perhaps even a majority of it) - it's FAKE. There are a lot of differences in fans - it's not just differences in how we interpret canon or chemistry or whatever else. Sometimes it's differences in how and why we watch - and what we do with the show they put on the TV every week. Once it has aired, it becomes just as much *mine* as anybody else's.