this blog is so stupid. you judge a whole fandom based on a few people you've interacted with and have the most absurd accusations. you're a hypocrite. you preach about olicity being fan service but you're also saying that marc should listen to your opinions and lead the show the way you want to see it. but that wouldn't be fan service to you, right? as long as you get your way. felicity and olicity fans had nothing to do with laurel's death. her storyline wasn't going anywhere.
Look, we know you’re not a monolith. In fact, we’ve had anons who either used to like or still like Ol*city come and talk to us and be perfectly respectable, and in turn we’ve reciprocated that tone. But when people have come into our inbox and been rude, yeah we’ve responded and probably not seemed nice about it. And when we make posts about the “fandom” it’s a generalization, because unfortunately the rude members of the fandom have outnumbered the polite ones in our own personal experiences. And it should be understood that, no, we don’t mean every single one of you. That’s the purpose of a generalization. We’re not going to tag every post with “Not All Ol*citers”, but really if you’ve been kind and respectful on your blog about your ship you should understand we are not attacking you personally. Our “accusations” are usually based off of anons we ourselves have received or exchanges that some of our followers or anons have pointed out on other forms of social media. We do our best to provide sources. When we’ve been wrong, we’ve apologized. I don’t see how anything we’ve said is “absurd” when we can back it all up with evidence.
And I hardly think it’s fan service to expect a show that is billed as a comic book show to be about comic book characters. Fan service is not wanting to see a continuation and improvements on Oliver’s Hero Journey, or the development of Diggle, Laurel, and Thea as heroes, or a better developed and more impactful “crucible” for Felicity’s character to go through and propel her into becoming a better hero because of it. Fan service is, however, asking and getting the “love fern” resurrected and wasting time and money to do so, having Ol*city and OTA become canon terms, asking the show runner for and having him promise more sex scenes for your faves when that is nowhere near central to the overall story or plot, asking for and getting a side ship for your fave’s mother just because, having her become a season regular when she has nothing to do with the plot, and having every character and their mother praise your fave and your fave’s ship, even with their dying words. (Hard to distance Laurel’s death from Felicity and Ol*city when that’s the case, anon. The writers chose to make her death scene about it, not us.)
Sure, we have opinions, and we voice them. But as long as Marc and the others would simply respect the source material they have chosen to base their show on (I don’t care if they say their show is “not like the comics” - make an original show then and don’t rope in an audience that is hoping to see their favorite characters from the comics on television. It’s dishonest.) we would be happy. We’d watch, and sure we might write up reviews, but we would trust that the writers have a plan and that even if we don’t agree with every single thing that’s happening we’d still be able to enjoy the journey and enjoy this interpretation of a story and characters we all love. But Marc and Co. have proven they don’t care about the source material, they don’t care about the characters we grew up with and admire, and as a result we are angry. We’re not asking for fan service, we’re warning the writers that if they keep going down this path they’re going to lose their original audience, their base of supporters that got this show off the ground in the first place.
Laurel’s story line wasn’t going anywhere because the writers decided since she wasn’t a love interest she wasn’t important anymore, just like how now that Felicity and Oliver aren’t in a relationship she’s getting written out of episodes. Which should prove that to Marc even Felicity’s only worth is in whether Oliver’s having sex with her or not. The idea that Quentin or Malcolm have more story line than Laurel Lance is absurd and inherently sexist and your fandom should be just as angry because it affects your fave and every other female character as well. That’s something we should all be able to agree on.
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