We might productively read the gendered politics of television scholarship against the show’s central narrative preoccupation with paternity, patriarchy, and masculinity....
We might, if we were able to give a shit about Jack's boring, boring manpain.
(Lost's basic problem, for me, was lack of story-momentum. There can be only so many WTF-y reveals before it's like, Okay, now turn these reveals into a plot! That never happened. I occasionally tune in for this the final season, but am consistently baffled and just waiting around till somebody I like comes back onto the screen.)
In terms of non-SFF narratives that have gotten fannish attention, I can think of many in the last 10 years: CSI had a healthy fanfic following (I don't know its current status), and I read one or two stories about ER. White Collar is all over popular, to name a recent example. One thing to think about is access; the last decade has seen "quality" television of all genres migrate to non-network and even premium cable, while it's only recently become easy to find online. That's a big gap, that tends to decrease the fannish scrum; no amount of enthusiasm can overcome "I have to torrent this myself??" among the less technically-inclined. (*cough* yours truly *cough*)
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We might, if we were able to give a shit about Jack's boring, boring manpain.
(Lost's basic problem, for me, was lack of story-momentum. There can be only so many WTF-y reveals before it's like, Okay, now turn these reveals into a plot! That never happened. I occasionally tune in for this the final season, but am consistently baffled and just waiting around till somebody I like comes back onto the screen.)
In terms of non-SFF narratives that have gotten fannish attention, I can think of many in the last 10 years: CSI had a healthy fanfic following (I don't know its current status), and I read one or two stories about ER. White Collar is all over popular, to name a recent example. One thing to think about is access; the last decade has seen "quality" television of all genres migrate to non-network and even premium cable, while it's only recently become easy to find online. That's a big gap, that tends to decrease the fannish scrum; no amount of enthusiasm can overcome "I have to torrent this myself??" among the less technically-inclined. (*cough* yours truly *cough*)