I have an irrational fear. I am afraid that one day all the things I love will be popular, and therefore I will no longer be different. The things that I love, that helped mold me and make me different from everyone else, all at some time in their life became popular.
Anime, video games, comics. They all had a popularity spike at one point or another. I slowly learned that regardless of how many people like something, it doesn't matter, because the people behind them were huge fans like me. They wouldn't cater to the mainstream for long, so the mainstream eventually left. The product remained unchanged, and the thing I enjoyed so much remained.
Why am I telling you this? Well, my knee jerk reaction was that GB x GS would mean that these alien journalist, who I shunned due to their sites popularity, would make GB a mainstream thing. I didn't want that, so I automatically hated the idea of the show. I guess it was a resurgence of my old fears, my old hipster ways came back to haunt me.
Then I watched the show and realized it was really funny, and had some great points. It needs work, but I think a lot of people had a similar reaction to it as I. The thought of it overall changing GB scared them away. Fact is, that's nonsense, and I think we all should give the show a chance.
/rant
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