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[quarter_to_five]

I see - and sympathize - with all complaining that no one is writing fic for your favourite rare pairing or obscure old fandom, but I will raise you all the sublime frustration that no one is writing serious meta for your critically unregarded comedy loves.

WHY can I not find a good analysis of the political subtext of Brooklyn Nine Nine? WHERE is the critical deconstruction of the narrative tools in How I Met Your Mother? HOW is no one jumping around on a barricade about class issues in Community? Why dost thou betray me and leave out to dry and with no one to talk to, oh fandom?

I'm going to sit here and stare at the wall, y'all.

Well, at the books, because I'm in a library.

Ooh, that one looks interesting.

Apropos, do you know how incredibly boring, obvious and unimaginative most serious books about tv are? All that "Philosophy of Mad Men" (we have no less than 3 books about Mad Men, and the series isn't even done!) or Women on TV: from Lucy to Friends type stuff. I sort through them a lot because that section tends to be a perennial mess, and SO OBVIOUS.

Comments

[franzi1981]

Heh, I guess at least in my case - well, aside from the fact that I'm not very good at meta anyway - I watch comedy shows for really shallow entertainment. I don't want them to be deep *G*. So I... basically don't think about it.

Except that I only now discovered Community and my VOD service in Germany only has the first two seasons up :( It's shown on some regular tv channel as well, but not undubbed.

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: At least you're in a library. That's something. (Unless it's a bad thing, of course, I suppose that could be possible.)

What can I say? At least you don't usually have to explain what the TV shows are before you can even start talking about them, so I don't accept that your case is worse than mine. ;-p

And your thoughts sound interesting. You ought to be the one to write the meta. I can't believe nobody would be interested. There's such a lot of interesting social culture and history that sometimes gets caught up in comedy, in the things that nobody's trying to do anything Significant or "deep" with. I find it hard to believe there aren't things like that, but they're probably hidden, and in people's media studies essays and things.