This week in class we discussed the big topic on fandom. “Fandom as a whole is a subculture that celebrates a mutual bond formed between people over a book series, TV show, movie, band, or other form of pop culture.” (Morrison, 2016, para 1). Fandoms are not about pointless things, it’s tied in with turning into a network fixated on the adoration for, and energy for something. It’s about fellowship, comprehension, and opening entryways and pathways that you never knew existed. To put it plainly, Fandom is digital empowerment. From streaming content to interfacing through social media life to making fan works. At the point when we got fit for devouring, interfacing and making without anyone else terms, with access to large numbers of other people who share our enthusiasm for a show, motion picture, book, story, character, sport, band, craftsman, computer game, brand, item, hobby, and so forth., the intensity of being a fan started to appear. As a business major, all of this is interesting and relates in a way because there is research that comes with this for example, ” In research, In research we conducted last September, 85% of those surveyed reported being fans of something – 97% in the 18-24 age range” (Kresnicka, 2016, para 4). In a way, fandom is similar to brand loyalty, except with fans being loyal to their favorite TV show, movie, book, etc.
https://www.thedailystar.net/shout/life/why-fandoms-are-important-1580551
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/what-is-fandom-and-why-is-it-important
We then watched Galaxy Quest which manages the possibility of being a fan and how big names treat their fans. I feel as though Galaxy Quest caught everything without flaw, the shows, the ensembles, the nerds, the groupies who go to cons searching for kicks. It paid heed to all the sci-fi platitudes, recognized them, and afterward bent them to its own comedic purposes. The cast are generally praiseworthy in their jobs as ex sci-fi stars who get slung into the genuine article and need to spare the system. What makes a great movie great is constantly an incredible story. The entire thought of on-screen characters from a quite a while in the past space arrangement being confused with being the genuine article by real outsiders is very cunning. Galaxy Quest got the outlandishness of being a fan, yet too its inspiration. At last, the disrupted and basic performers found quality and essentialness in comparable characters which stereotyped them. The geeks had a significant effect. The saints won. The miscreants gave excitement to masses of fans, which is the thing that I think being a fan and sci-fi is about. The whole cast was brilliant, particularly Tim Allen and Alan Rickman doing their best Shatner and Nimoy impersonations. However, out of every one of them two truly shine for me. Alan Rickman, whose outward appearances all through the film simply make you chuckle and Sam Rockwell, who plays the “additional crew member” who’s constantly persuaded he will get murdered in light of the fact that he’s no one important and not one of the ordinary cast.
Mass Media & American Life - Fall 19 