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confessionsmeme

Your main fandom of the year?
I WONDER? This was kind of a dead year in terms of participation. I've been repeating fandoms from previous years, so there isn't One Fandom To Rule Them All in terms of supremacy.

Your favorite film watched this year?
I did watch quite a few movies, real action and animation. For the former, however, I don't have one I liked better than the others (and I did check popular/good ones, so I must be Broken Inside). From anime, Millennium Actress. From Western animation, tie between How To Train Your Dragon and Toy Story 3.

Your favorite book read this year?
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian. But really, I liked everything I read from Rick Riordan, which did include The Lost Hero, thank you. I also read a lot deal of Diana Wynne Jones books (and I have more to read, yay), so from those I'd say The Lives of Christopher Chant.

Your favorite album or song to listen to this year?
Kuragehime's opening? Like usual, I just put my player on shuffle.

Your favourite TV show of the year?
If we talk about shows on broadcast for the first time on 2010, then... Doctor Who 5 for real action, Kuragehime for anime (unless they fuck that one up this week), Sym-bionic Titan for animation. Arakawa Under the Bridge and Katanagatari were also good. Now, if we can include older stuff I've watched, Dead Like Me for real action and Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou for anime. I also checked Utena and Le Chevalier D'Eon, which were pretty much a weird but enjoyable experience.

Your best new fandom discovery of the year?
P-P-Pokémon. Kuragehime is awesome but lacks a real fandom.

Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year?
Ace Attorney Investigations. Every time Eshiro opens his mouth or I read an Okamiden spoiler that is made of evil/stupid. Whatever CLAMP is doing (why are they changing Gate7 from the Inception/Paprika one-shot they said it was to a generic cryptic paranormal series?) That Vinland Saga and Historie have been boring or creepy this year when I needed them most.

Your fictional boyfriend of the year?
~~Mooooorty~~ Why do I feel like any answer I can give is going to make me look like a pedo, because all my favorite male characters this year are 15-17 years old? Let's see... Christopher Chant is an adult, but very much married to an awesome lady. Maybe any of the two Figaro brothers from FFVI, but I've forgotten to keep playing.

Your fictional girlfriend of the year?
Dunno. River Song?

Your biggest squee moment of the year?
Fullmetal Alchemist ending, and also the saddest. Ouran Host Club ending, that one was very squee.

The most missed of your old fandoms?
Not having new chapters of FMA and Ouran has left me empty, you guys. I miss playing videogames, too.

The fandom you haven’t tried yet, but want to.
I have Muramasa and Psychonauts gathering dust ever since they took away the Wii from my bedroom. I also want to play the Assassin's Creed series but the 360 is my brothers' and they play all the time. I had Sherlock downloaded and the first season of Merlin, but I lost the former and was lazy for the latter.

Your biggest fan anticipations for the New Year?
Pokémon Black/White. Despite of my complaints (or because of them), Okamiden. 3DS and their shiny new games, especially Kid Icarus. 3DS and their silly remakes, especially Ocarina of Time and Tales of the Abyss (bring it to Europe, Japan!). Avatar: The Legend of Korra. The Son of Neptune.

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It's... kinda tl;dr in a way that I wasn't expecting *was imagining a paragraph or two tops*. You likely have a point with several of those, especially regarding the lack of character development, but it's really hard to tell which parts are objective and which ones aren't. More than concrit, there's a lot of vitriol and strong feelings in this explanation. It certainly helps to understand why you're so appalled by it, but I'm afraid it's confusing me further as I have friends with decent tastes and who know about storytelling, and yet they seem to enjoy the show -or tolerate its issues with a thicker skin.

If it's so bad in everything, then why are you still watching? Just wondering, because you seem to hate most of it with a passion that I expect that doesn't bring wank in this formerly cheerful end-of-year squee post.

Well, I was trying to give concrit without spoiling you of anything in case you end up watching, that's why it got sort of generic (also, lol, late night ranting). Bias about quality is something I don't think I do (it's something that I got beaten out in college so I'm actually very bipolar in that I'm always asking myself "well, nevermind what I like, does this thing have cultural value?" - but then again I don't see television as entertaiment so you should also take that into account). Since I have incredible fondness for the world of Merlin and its fandom if any case I try harder to see its positive points than anything, and once upon a time I tried to defend it from criticism but in the last season that has become impossible even for a fan like me.

Actually the first thing I've said is that I think you should watch it. I wasn't trying to discourage you or anything.

I don't hate Merlin with a passion or have vitriol or anything. Its lack of professionalism appalls me - but many tv shows do that to me. I watch it because after three years I kinda got used to the characters, and because I really love Arthurian legends and it's fun to see any interpretation of it, and because there are a lot of guest stars I love and because Angel Coulby is very pretty. That's why I watch such a poor product (then again I watch a lot of poor tv products, so Merlin is not that special - I'm the person who watched every episode of Robin Hood, after all).

So yeah, sorry if my comments sounded angry or anything. I blame the late hour and the sucky Christmas time. Though I don't think I said anything about the show I cannot argue competently if you give me a bit of time to dig up my examples.

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lol, where are my Merlin icons?