The closed ending didn't offer closure though because if they offered closed answers they were thematically inconsistent with the information offered up until that point.
Anyway, point being, this makes me wonder about give and take in fandom relationships. Mythology heavy shows have been trending in television for awhile, but what made some succeed and others fail was often tied to the ratio between what is asked of the audience and what is offered to the audience. It seems to me as though with the closed/lack-of-closure, aside from the A/R fanbase who are generally nuts, they asked a lot without offering anything substantial in return. I mean this extends well beyond usual fan labor and into the realm of fixing their frak ups.
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Date: 2009-05-31 09:20 pm (UTC)Anyway, point being, this makes me wonder about give and take in fandom relationships. Mythology heavy shows have been trending in television for awhile, but what made some succeed and others fail was often tied to the ratio between what is asked of the audience and what is offered to the audience. It seems to me as though with the closed/lack-of-closure, aside from the A/R fanbase who are generally nuts, they asked a lot without offering anything substantial in return. I mean this extends well beyond usual fan labor and into the realm of fixing their frak ups.