SyFy Insults Its Viewers
Jul. 25th, 2012 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lazypadawanThe other night I saw an ad for an upcoming series on SyFy "Collection Intervention" and rolled my eyes. The show is about collectors who need to be publicly "set straight" due to their out-of-control hobby, or so it seems. The premiere episode is about somebody with a huge Star Wars collection. Oh wonderful.
I don't know the full circumstances behind this situation but the collection presented in those few seconds on t.v. was neat, organized, and clean. According to the show's press release, the collection spreads throughout the home. My answer to that is, it's only a problem if it's a problem, such as you're married to/shacking up with someone who doesn't share your enthusiasm (and that's your fault), you're hoarding not collecting, or your collecting is putting you into debt. Otherwise, who cares?
Moreover, it looks like SyFy's ripoff of "Hoarders," "Hoarding: Buried Alive," and "Animal Hoarding." Collectors should feel insulted they are being dumped in the same box as mentally-ill people who literally live in their poop and let rats run free over mammoth piles of trash. Fannish types get bad raps as it is. We don't need family members, colleagues, and friends to judge us as hoarders on top of everything else.
Why on Earth does SyFy want to do that to the demographic that supports its network?
I don't know the full circumstances behind this situation but the collection presented in those few seconds on t.v. was neat, organized, and clean. According to the show's press release, the collection spreads throughout the home. My answer to that is, it's only a problem if it's a problem, such as you're married to/shacking up with someone who doesn't share your enthusiasm (and that's your fault), you're hoarding not collecting, or your collecting is putting you into debt. Otherwise, who cares?
Moreover, it looks like SyFy's ripoff of "Hoarders," "Hoarding: Buried Alive," and "Animal Hoarding." Collectors should feel insulted they are being dumped in the same box as mentally-ill people who literally live in their poop and let rats run free over mammoth piles of trash. Fannish types get bad raps as it is. We don't need family members, colleagues, and friends to judge us as hoarders on top of everything else.
Why on Earth does SyFy want to do that to the demographic that supports its network?
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Date: 2012-07-27 02:36 am (UTC)I had a friend from college, he collected comic books & action figures and I collected Barbies & Star Wars (he did Star Wars too.) The 2 of us would meet up on weekends and drive all over Northern California hitting antique malls and collectibles shops looking for stuff. We got to where we'd become a second pair of eyes for each other when we were out and about. Even though our finds were different we both enjoyed the hunt.
The problem is when you let your collecting get out of control and it takes over your life. If you only spend what you can afford and only get what you can display & enjoy then collecting can be a lifelong, fun hobby. It's bad news bears when a non-collector hooks up w/ a full blown collector. If that non-collector never finds something to catch his/her own collecting bug about, the relationship will be doomed.
I've had times where I've sold off collections once I grew tired of them...or I desperately needed money and realized that the items really didn't mean that much to me. I've got all of my dolls that after I move I'll be looking to sell off a huge lot of them because I really don't need/want them anymore, nor will I have anywhere to display them. I'll be severely cutting the fat in my SW collection also once I get everything together and I can evaluate all that I have.
That then will help to form the circle - I get rid of stuff that other collectors are hunting for and they can enjoy their new finds.