"Now it's like a show has to have 'cest or it just isn't as popular."
I'm half and half on this. I agree that it is definitaly becoming more important especially as shows are realizing how a strong online fandom can carry a show so it seems like a lot of shows are playing off that theme, but I don't necessarily slash EVERY sibling or familial relationship I see. I know I started watching Prison Break on DVD last summer and even though I had shipped Wincest for a long time prior, it was while watching the interaction between the two brothers, Link and Michael, that I truly understood how DIFFERENT Sam and Dean's relationship IS. I remember watching Prison Break and thinking "Now THAT is how two brothers SHOULD act!!!" Which was (from what I could tell) NOTHING like how Sam and Dean act towards each other.
So I sometimes don't understand how people can ship just any slash pairing be it incest or not. I.E. Clark and Lex were the only other TV show pair that I shipped, but I lost interest because it just WASN'T in the show, it was almost completely contrived by author's of fanfiction. That is how I found Sam and Dean because it IS in the show practically every episode how intense they feel about one another. For me, there needs to be a basis for a pairing, but I see all too many people who just ship any two male characters together and I just can't do that.
But speaking of something being totally "in" now is the RPS thing, I swear people are now puposely trying to create "buzz" for their movies and such by using this tactic. Like with Jared and Jensen, it's just natural how the J2 fandom came about, and I think it got noticed that a lot of attention went to the show by simply interviewing Jared and Jensen together and having fans become attached to THEM as a pair. Speculating about those creates attention for SPN too.
I just know I was watching I don't knwo...some TVguide special the other day and a new movie that is coming out features Jason Biggs and Dane Cook, and one character is trying to help the other one "get a girl". Well this TVguide thing was all about how Dane and Jason went out on this "date" in RL to help them get comfortable with each other so they work good together. There was joking about them holding hands across the table and lots of innuendo, but it struck me as being such a ploy to get people speculating. It seemed that they were totally playing off the fact of the RPS phenomenon, after all the attention would be GREAT advertising for the movie.
I sat their shocked, like "Are they actually TRYING to generate RPS on purpose?!?"
So the whole slash/incest/"Bromance"/RPS culture is becoming very poular from what it looks like.
*sighs* I am so emabarrassed for writing so much. I am soooo SORRY!
ITA...well....somewhat...lol
I'm half and half on this. I agree that it is definitaly becoming more important especially as shows are realizing how a strong online fandom can carry a show so it seems like a lot of shows are playing off that theme, but I don't necessarily slash EVERY sibling or familial relationship I see. I know I started watching Prison Break on DVD last summer and even though I had shipped Wincest for a long time prior, it was while watching the interaction between the two brothers, Link and Michael, that I truly understood how DIFFERENT Sam and Dean's relationship IS. I remember watching Prison Break and thinking "Now THAT is how two brothers SHOULD act!!!" Which was (from what I could tell) NOTHING like how Sam and Dean act towards each other.
So I sometimes don't understand how people can ship just any slash pairing be it incest or not. I.E. Clark and Lex were the only other TV show pair that I shipped, but I lost interest because it just WASN'T in the show, it was almost completely contrived by author's of fanfiction. That is how I found Sam and Dean because it IS in the show practically every episode how intense they feel about one another. For me, there needs to be a basis for a pairing, but I see all too many people who just ship any two male characters together and I just can't do that.
But speaking of something being totally "in" now is the RPS thing, I swear people are now puposely trying to create "buzz" for their movies and such by using this tactic. Like with Jared and Jensen, it's just natural how the J2 fandom came about, and I think it got noticed that a lot of attention went to the show by simply interviewing Jared and Jensen together and having fans become attached to THEM as a pair. Speculating about those creates attention for SPN too.
I just know I was watching I don't knwo...some TVguide special the other day and a new movie that is coming out features Jason Biggs and Dane Cook, and one character is trying to help the other one "get a girl". Well this TVguide thing was all about how Dane and Jason went out on this "date" in RL to help them get comfortable with each other so they work good together. There was joking about them holding hands across the table and lots of innuendo, but it struck me as being such a ploy to get people speculating. It seemed that they were totally playing off the fact of the RPS phenomenon, after all the attention would be GREAT advertising for the movie.
I sat their shocked, like "Are they actually TRYING to generate RPS on purpose?!?"
So the whole slash/incest/"Bromance"/RPS culture is becoming very poular from what it looks like.
*sighs* I am so emabarrassed for writing so much. I am soooo SORRY!