Why I Hate Fandoms

Fandom:"The community that surrounds a tv show/movie/book etc. Fanfiction writers, artists, poets, and cosplayers are all members of that fandom. Fandoms often consist of message boards, livejournal communities, and people." (via Urban Dictionary.)

Okay, so the title is slightly inaccurate. I don't hate all fandoms, in fact, I am part of at least two (seriously, my ringtone is the Mockingjay whistle. I'm not ashamed). But whatever. What I wanted to title it was "Why I Hate Obsessed Fandoms that Choose the Cast Of Movies Before the Actual Movie Producers Do" but that was a bit lengthy.

So there's a movie coming out in 2013 called The Mortal Instruments, based of a series of the same name by Cassandra Clare. I am kind of obsessed with the books ever since I was introduced by my brother's girlfriend. Then I learned that there was going to be a movie and I about squealed my head off. Anyway, that's not the point. The point is there has been one (possibly two. The second one is debatable) character cast, since the production hasn't actually start. Of course, this means that all the fans are freaking out and picking their own cast.

What I find funny about all this is people are FREAKING out. I saw one article where a person chose people to be in the cast. I agreed with some of them, not so much with others, but whatever. Then I read the comments and laughed to myself. People get SO defensive. Half of them liked the choices, half of them didn't, but I'm sitting there like, "What does it matter? It's not like this is the final decision. Whoever gets chosen, gets chosen. There's not much you can do about it.)Although, maybe I can't talk because I'm a little bit (okay, a lot) upset that Alex Pettyfer turned down the role of Jace because he would be, you know, PERFECT. But I don't go around blowing up the internet because of it.

Also, I keep thinking of the early stages of Hunger Games freak-out, when Jennifer Lawrence was cast as Katniss. People were pissed. They were like "SHE IS TERRIBLE!!! So not at all how I pictured her!" And now everyone loves her. Funny thing about that. Let's face it: everyone pictures book characters differently. The cast is never going to look exactly like you pictured them. And look at what happened with Jennifer Lawrence. Turns out, she was perfect. Funny thing about that...

I have to say, I'm also excited because I learned recently that one of my favorite books EVER is being turned into a movie in 2015. It's called Divergent (and yes, this is me proving that I've liked it since the beginning. I'll thank myself in a few years). Really all that's happened so far is someone (Summit entertainment maybe?) bought the rights to it. I'm freaking out. I am so excited to see how it turns out! But I refuse to look at anymore fan casting lists.

Lisa

P.S. I've noticed recently that I use a lot of parenthesis. I just have so many peanut gallery comments running through my head...