Because in the end, I do think it’s a good thing to change Bonnie’s race (or to blindcast Graham rather). But in so doing the dynamics certainly change, and a lot of character aspects suddenly take on new meaning—the antebellum flashbacks, the witch ident ...
Darcey, it is a powerful metaphor. And, it's so damn overt that if I didn't know better I'd be astonished the show hadn't dealt with it. A few months back I was on TWoP's TVD forum and that conversation about the witches and warl ...
Gosh, I don't even know what I'd do with myself if TVD became multiculti with its leading characters (who wouldn't be mercilessly killed off each and every time). Don't even know. Witches: remember that scene early on in season one whe ...
Lindsay I think you bring up some really great points about the distinction in demographic between TVD online fans and Mischa's Minions. I think also that because Collins is in direct conversation with the minions that it creates a space for them to ...
Kristina, I think I've told you that I remember this event very, very well as I am a member of ONTD. The lack of control on both Roth and ONTD's parts was what most struck me. The day after, there was so much discourse on the blog site about how ...
Thanks, Annie. I'd say that there are certainly different kinds of celebrities (perhaps celeb intellectuals would be a better description) who would indeed respond to acafans like us. John Mayer? No. Case in point: the newsstory about the guy from Au ...
Lindsay, Thanks for your comment. I agree that the ways that these young women are emoting certainly is modeled after mediated images they've seen before. What I think is most intriguing about the celeb's retweeting Chloe, for example, is labeli ...
Louisa, I think you are spot-on when you suggest that acafan/critical analysis would be more welcome on progams like Mad Men and Lost. I think those shows avail themselves to a certain class of consumer. The demographics for Mad Men are particularly niche ...
I can't help but think of Cody's desire for Bieber being contained in a discourse of innocence and naivete as a parallel to the news about the illegal photographs of Miley Cyrus's naked parts being taken down on the internet (with the possi ...
Annie, thanks for this post. I have always had mixed feelings about Lainey. I think she does tell great narratives about celeb relationships and the ways that the industry creates/concocts these fables to sell to the "minivan majority." But I al ...
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Erasing History Indeed
Some TVD fans suffer selective historical amnesia
Witches
the minions vs. the oh my salvatores
connections
Thanks, Annie.
Lindsay, Thanks for your
Mad Men vs TVD
Thanks for this post Lindsay!
Lainey makes me say "argh."
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