Aggravation of the Day
May. 24th, 2008 05:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerI was looking through an anime message board that I frequent when I spotted someone complaining about a "fansub" that had dared to take bits out of the original Japanese work to suit the tastes of those performing the unofficial translation. The person seemed to be viewing the matter as a sort of "last straw," and my first reaction was a musing "How different, how very different, from certain Star Wars fans and all those 'Edits'..." and then, a bunch of people started praising "The Phantom Edit" as the glowing counterexample to the person's aggravation, and I had to deal with some aggravation of my own.
I suppose that it would be much easier for me to view and judge for myself however many takes there are on chopping bits out The Phantom Menace (even with the recent controversy about "net neutrality" and efforts to control the total online experience taken into account) than when I first heard about it... but I don't want to. I guess it has something to do with "resisting the conventional wisdom," with disliking a general nastiness of tone, and with it getting harder and harder for me to see why anyone would drive themselves into such a shrieking frenzy over a movie... perhaps, too, I disliked hearing about how one of the first and most famous "Edits" had turned the opening crawl into an apologia for having been driven to the act. I might have thought "I know why you did it; you know why you did it; I don't want to be reminded..."
(In thinking about it, though, I suppose that some anime fans might be upset about even "fan edits" to anime because it brings back all those unpleasant memories of edits made for mere commercial reasons.)
I suppose that it would be much easier for me to view and judge for myself however many takes there are on chopping bits out The Phantom Menace (even with the recent controversy about "net neutrality" and efforts to control the total online experience taken into account) than when I first heard about it... but I don't want to. I guess it has something to do with "resisting the conventional wisdom," with disliking a general nastiness of tone, and with it getting harder and harder for me to see why anyone would drive themselves into such a shrieking frenzy over a movie... perhaps, too, I disliked hearing about how one of the first and most famous "Edits" had turned the opening crawl into an apologia for having been driven to the act. I might have thought "I know why you did it; you know why you did it; I don't want to be reminded..."
(In thinking about it, though, I suppose that some anime fans might be upset about even "fan edits" to anime because it brings back all those unpleasant memories of edits made for mere commercial reasons.)