Casual fandom misleading? Maybe. But the trick is that I've perfected the art of tropes and cross-genre understanding, asking questions, and generally trying to understand, so even when someone surprises me with an interest in vintage heavy metal on cassette, I can talk intelligently and learn things from them.
Overloading others? There's a good chance I have done that, but I actively try to avoid it when I'm talking about things in a fan of, because I want other people to understand what the fandom is and where in coming from with it, so I would much rather be accused of overexplaining than underexplaining. (This often reveals my hardcore is different than someone else's. I am very much a fan of baseball, but not of fans who are more interested in the statistics than in the gameplay. They're missing the beauty before them for the maths.)
The Star Wars sequels are canonical for as much as anything about Star Wars is canonical, which is so say "Some philosophies pick-and-choose / deciding what goes in it." That the sequels are Disney-things makes me more inclined to think of them as meant for money rather than story, but I do like some of the characters of the sequel series and think they will do much better in the minds of fic writers than the Disney people.
What would I like to see more of? I've spent a lot of time and words pointing out all the foibles of the execution of the Dragonriders of Pern. The most frustrating thing about it is that the concept is solid, but the execution has been consistently terrible in the hands of the two authors I've been exposed to so far.
I suspect there are a lot of stories I want to see more of, because they succeeded at building a world and populating it not just with protagonists and antagonists, but side characters and interesting nooks and crannies, L-Space, and other such things that suggest there are plenty of other series that could have been made in the same world (or universe).
I would like to see a series, one day, where the setting is something like a library, or other fixed space, where the people inside are absolutely influencing how the world-spanning adventure goes on our there, but the narrative of the work never follows the people outside on their quest. At best, what they do is get progress on what happens outside by news retorts or otherwise. The kind of story that is about all those NPCs who deliver key information to the PCs and then, presumably, go on with their lives, possibly without knowing until a much later date that what they did turned out to be essential to the whole operation.
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Overloading others? There's a good chance I have done that, but I actively try to avoid it when I'm talking about things in a fan of, because I want other people to understand what the fandom is and where in coming from with it, so I would much rather be accused of overexplaining than underexplaining. (This often reveals my hardcore is different than someone else's. I am very much a fan of baseball, but not of fans who are more interested in the statistics than in the gameplay. They're missing the beauty before them for the maths.)
The Star Wars sequels are canonical for as much as anything about Star Wars is canonical, which is so say "Some philosophies pick-and-choose / deciding what goes in it." That the sequels are Disney-things makes me more inclined to think of them as meant for money rather than story, but I do like some of the characters of the sequel series and think they will do much better in the minds of fic writers than the Disney people.
What would I like to see more of? I've spent a lot of time and words pointing out all the foibles of the execution of the Dragonriders of Pern. The most frustrating thing about it is that the concept is solid, but the execution has been consistently terrible in the hands of the two authors I've been exposed to so far.
I suspect there are a lot of stories I want to see more of, because they succeeded at building a world and populating it not just with protagonists and antagonists, but side characters and interesting nooks and crannies, L-Space, and other such things that suggest there are plenty of other series that could have been made in the same world (or universe).
I would like to see a series, one day, where the setting is something like a library, or other fixed space, where the people inside are absolutely influencing how the world-spanning adventure goes on our there, but the narrative of the work never follows the people outside on their quest. At best, what they do is get progress on what happens outside by news retorts or otherwise. The kind of story that is about all those NPCs who deliver key information to the PCs and then, presumably, go on with their lives, possibly without knowing until a much later date that what they did turned out to be essential to the whole operation.