#itms rambles

there has been increased focus on authorial intent as result of focus on predicting where the show is going or should go. (past meta or meta on long past seasons “irrelevant” because show has moved on; meta not worthy in and of itself but only as a means of prediction, which requires element of authorial intent.)

primarily (and unfortunately), it is authorial intent not as actual attempt to discern show’s intentions, but appeal to highest authority. (“it’s god’s will...because it’s what i want.”) decide interpretation or position, then defend it with “this is what the show is doing” as way of saying “my interpretation is the only truly correct one and all others are lesser if not outright blasphemy.”

why did i think i could keep up with three blogs. how do people do it.

technically four because i don’t mean for my edlund blog to be dead but like it would just mostly be reblogging from here so? also someone asked me something there a few months back and i forgot to answer that i didn’t know what they were looking for so now i’m embarrassed about that.

sometimes i feel bad that all the ben edlund fan blogs are defunct then i remember one of them is mine and i feel worse.

i still have not watched the last spn ep and i probably will not watch it any time soon. so there. i’m not feeling very much like reblogging spn at the moment either. i was gonna make some charlie edits but you know i don’t really feel like that either. like. i just have no feelings about it except resignation. it’s like yep. she was the sacrifice for this season. you said over and over you wouldn’t do it but you did. should have seen it coming.

i haven’t been very emotionally invested in spn since the end of s8 to be honest. well since edlund left. i tried with season 9 and it started out okay but i just can’t connect with humanish cass. (i didn’t watch either of teh eps since he got his grace back but.) i don’t have much feeling about him anymore. i don’t want anything bad to happen to him, but other than that i just don’t care anymore. i don’t know him. 

i’m not sure what i’m in it for now at all since cass was most of the reason i started watching (also ‘cause the first seasons sounded xfilesish.) and then when i watched there was edlund and now none of those things are there so i’m just kinda in it cause i’m in it. i’m not gonna ragequit on it either. to be honest i just don’t have enough emotion about current spn to do that. 

also the one thing about that episode is now we know why they named the family styne. (i know someone called styne for frankenstein before good on them.)

whereas edlund's meta-episodes (i include both hollywood babylon and ghostfacers as well as tfm here..the great escapist also had some really heavy meta elements) are much more about examining and playing with the mechanics and structure of story/television itself. it's a much more introspective approach. it's certainly aware of viewers/fans (particularly tfm) but it doesn't reach out or engage in the same way. and i think that's why edlund's approach appeals to me so much more than thompson's. it's the difference between someone putting the spotlight on you and someone inviting you to look over their shoulder while they take something apart.

and i think that's also why the meta of the other chuck eps never really spoke to me. because it's more spotlighting. though unlike rt's meta eps those earlier chuck meta eps focused on the creator and only incidentally the fan as (strange) consumer/outsider--it's ultimately another case of spotlighting fans except instead of 'you're so awesome' it was 'ew i know you're necessary but you're so weird'.