Good grief! What kind of drugs did you get for Christmas?!?
She was in touch with what a lot of people wanted, and had the temerity to get them to express it in a productive way. There was no Internet to glue interested people together, and no demographics to show anyone how the show was successful. Today, the technologies that unify (and in a lot of cases, segregate) communities would've inevitably led to similar modes of protest. For better and worse, the audience now has a larger voice and the mainstream media is going to react to it.
I'm not saying Beejoe wasn't terrific; she, after all, is "the fan that saved STAR TREK."
What I am saying is because she got the ball rolling, and great things came of it, that overreaction became a kneejerk fan response.
Here's the thing, though: people disagree. The nature of something like entertainment is nobody comes to a common consensus on it. A lot of people complain about how diehard fans are "pleased with nothing," but what's left out from that assessment is that nothing pleases everyone 100% of the time. A friend of mine called THE GODFATHER "the most overrated movie of all time." And that's THE GODFATHER, which is one of the closest things in our culture to being something that is universally loved, along with Morgan Freeman and french fries.
I for one, really enjoyed SUPERMAN RETURNS. Clearly, this guy did not. But having a differing opinion on a movie isn't call for a letter-writing campaign. Can't people disagree about a movie without whipping the petitions out?
Do you think Superman would have a WWW site? A blog (written in all known Earthly languages)? Or would he trust Lois and the Daily Planet to interpret his example and message right for all the world. Does Clark write with the idea that he has a legacy, that someday when his identity is found out, that his words will be analysed for generations to come?
He might have one. Superman's approach to publicity seems to be one of the few inconstant aspects of Superman's characterization. For instance, there are some stories where Superman gives interviews with "Clark Kent" on WGBS and goes on the Earth-1 equivalent of the Tonight Show, and there was another characterization where Superman avoids publicity.
If the first characterization is more your bag, I can see Superman blogging. Superman would probably spend a lot of time talking about environmental issues, what with having lost his home planet and all (this was Conway's great addition to Superman's characterization: giving him proactive environmentalism). I can't see Superman using his blog to sell t-shirts and S-mugs, though. As Perry White (ironically) proclaimed during the whole Cary Bates Supermobile fiasco, "Superman is ABOVE crass merchandizing!"
Administrator's note: I removed the name of John Lennon's killer from Julian's post. When the man was asked why he killed Lennon, he replied that he wanted to acheive fame by being remembered as Lennon's killer. Yoko Ono has requested that, because of this, his name not be mentioned. I would like to honor her request on this forum.
Fair enough. That guy was an odious little spit, so if that's what Yoko wants, that's what Yoko gets.