Something in the water?

[graculus]

What's with all the fail this year? Seriously, has someone put something in the water supply that's making folks act like asshats (more than usual)? Midsummer madness of some sort?

The whole SGFail business where Token Lesbian gets to be on the receiving end of a bodyswapping rape scene... (and it just rumbles on - sheafrotherdon is probably your best source for ongoing informantion)

The Mammoth Book of Sci Fi Writers Who Are Awesome Just Like Me (and the rest of you are just jealous!) fail...

John C Wright gets to have a fail all his own...

The latter has certainly lost some sales over this - I had one of his ebooks, which I've now deleted unread and that's his chances of sales from me out of the window. I doubt he cares, but it makes me feel a little bit better after reading his tedious vitriol.

So, can you separate asshattery from artist? Or does knowing something about someone in the public eye make you run away from what they produce? Personally, if I never see another Mel Gibson movie it'll be a thousand years too soon, and the same goes for Tom Cruise - I'm not all that tolerant of either anti-Semites or crazy Scientologists. And then there's Orson Scott Card...

Comments

[obelix]

I'll add to your list Sean Connery and RTD ;-)

I know there are others but those you named and the ones I added are the ones that are high up on my list of no frelling way will I ever buy, watch or read anything from them.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

The rule I go for is that I try to boycott anything that said asshats will directly profit from. So, long-dead racists and misogynists and homophobes, I'm ambivalent about, because they're not getting my money - and if I recommend their work, it's with the caveat of: "This person is also an asshat." For living people, I tend to stay away from their work altogether because I will have lost the ability to lose myself in their work; I'll be peering at every characterisation, thinking, 'What does he mean by that?' But if it's something that I really have to read despite despising the creator, buying second-hand is my usual solution.

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

What was Wright writing on his LJ? The link there had some weird stuff going on, so I couldn't read it (it was tiny tiny off to the side).

[nialla]

2009: The Year of Fail.

GateFail has so much fail contained in one episode, I think it broke several laws of physics.

Sadly, knowing this is episode 16 and bodyswapping is apparently a regular event in the series, makes me wonder what other horrific fails await the unwary viewer.

I was already done with the franchise and there wasn't an actor that I just "had" to see (sorry, Lou Diamond Phillips, but I can't do this for you), so it's not affecting me as a viewer, but as a human being, I keep watching the train wreck in progress. And that's even before it's on the air!