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Hey everyone!
I'm in a popular culture class in college, and for our final papers we have to choose an aspect of popular culture and write a paper about it. I've decided to pick the internet, particularly how fans of TV shows and movies interact with their shows through message boards and fan forums.
The one thing I really wanted to focus on was how in TV shows people use message boards to explain, vent, or rationalize things that a show does in order to make it fit our own interpretation, like reading into the way Adam acts all nervous around Mac: does it mean that Adam was abused as a child by his father and is nervous around father like figures like Mac, or does it just mean that the character is just nervous or the actor portraying him was?
I've seen a lot of this on the board here, and I thought it would be really interesting to do some research on it here. I think I'm going to focus on times the show has made errors, whether they be in continuity, backstories, etc., and how we as fans try to rationalize the obvious errors in our own frame of reference to the show. What I really need is to figure out which episodes that you think the biggest errors occured in from any season, and then I can go back through those grading threads as well as character threads to see how people (including myself) tried to rationalize/respond to it.
If you can think of anything, please help me out! Im quite a procrastinator, but I've actually started this paper a little early so I have more time. Thanks everyone!!
I'm in a popular culture class in college, and for our final papers we have to choose an aspect of popular culture and write a paper about it. I've decided to pick the internet, particularly how fans of TV shows and movies interact with their shows through message boards and fan forums.
The one thing I really wanted to focus on was how in TV shows people use message boards to explain, vent, or rationalize things that a show does in order to make it fit our own interpretation, like reading into the way Adam acts all nervous around Mac: does it mean that Adam was abused as a child by his father and is nervous around father like figures like Mac, or does it just mean that the character is just nervous or the actor portraying him was?
I've seen a lot of this on the board here, and I thought it would be really interesting to do some research on it here. I think I'm going to focus on times the show has made errors, whether they be in continuity, backstories, etc., and how we as fans try to rationalize the obvious errors in our own frame of reference to the show. What I really need is to figure out which episodes that you think the biggest errors occured in from any season, and then I can go back through those grading threads as well as character threads to see how people (including myself) tried to rationalize/respond to it.
If you can think of anything, please help me out! Im quite a procrastinator, but I've actually started this paper a little early so I have more time. Thanks everyone!!