[am i right to be skeptical?i think so!]

Barbara Barnett, who has a radio show called Let's Talk TV  does not know what she is talking about. It wouldn't be the first time she's been wrong about something, cited "official" sources and said it was legit. But let me back up just a minute:

Before the airdate for S2 of Hannibal was released(February 28th of last year-5 days after my birthday-the best belated birthday present ever) she kept saying "yeah,yeah, it's going to  come back in February, after the Olympics".

(This is someone who has broken promises before, says she is going to have a live show from SD ComiCon every day-and that didn't happen-but that's beside the point.)

The airdate for S2 of Hannibal was announced and it was in.. February! So I felt a little bit bad for doubting her so much, but I felt like I had my reasons.

Fast-forward to this year. On one of her recent shows she said that she had heard(again this  was supposedly from a source at NBC) that Hannibal was going to be coming back in March or April.

However, at the TCA's it was announced that Hannibal is not coming back until summer. The fact that none of the cast or Bryan Fuller or Martha De Laurentiis was there should have been a huge clue that Hannibal is coming back later than usual. The last time I checked, March was in the winter, not summer.

I'm really tempted to say something to her the next time she has a show..to see if she says anything. I noticed she didn't say anything about it on her Twitter..if I had said something like that(getting fans' hopes up and all-I have to say, us Fannibals are taking having to wait until summer for the new season pretty well),then I would trying to avoid talking about it,too.

[do something well-not half assed-or don't do it at all]

There is a radio show that I listen to-Let's Talk TV-which is-I am not going to mince words here-troubled. First of all, there's the matter of the trouble the people doing the show -Barbara Barnett and a few of her friends- have with their equipment. It seems like the show stops and starts while it's on and there are drops and halting,or isn't on at all, and the reason given is that they are having some sort of technical trouble. And this has happened more than once.It happened  just last week, actually.

Or they just randomly quit having shows, as was what happened earlier this year. Without warning, no shows-for several months, and no word on when it might be on again-but when it did, it was after ComiCon-and even that was rescheduled a couple of times. On the face of it, it seems Barbara Barnett has some problems with being flakey(that's putting it mildly..)

She's  flakey,but also she's a very fair weather fan-she was in the House fandom but..didn't drop out exactly..she made her feelings about some of the storylines on the show,and was very forceful about them,and they became popular opinion in the fandom(never mind that there were a lot of people that disagreed with her..it didn't matter.)

Then, she  wrote about(and talked about on her radio show) Once Upon A Time for  quite a while but again, as with House,she didn't like certain storylines and said she wasn't going to talk about it on her show/review episodes.

Like I said in another post about this, I wouldn't be at all surprised if  she moves on to another show if the showrunners do something that she doesn't like. She can't get away with what she did in the House fandom-people are on to her-and I think some fandoms are less tolerant of drama bullshit than others.

And I get it-she writes about  pop culture for a living-but sometimes I think that she is completely unobjective about certain things-TV shows being one of them.

[fair weather fans]

This is something I've noticed in several fandoms-including Hannibal, though I'm going to start with other  fandoms and wrap up this post by talking about Hannibal

I'll start with House  and Once Upon a Time.

There is a writer, Barbara Barnett who is/was part of several fandoms.She writes about TV and pop culture for a living, so her opinion is out there,in a big way.

Well, some of her (very strong)opinions about House started to filter to others fans.And her opinion-that she didn't like the way the show runners were doing things-became the majority opinion in the House fandom.When a favourite character of Barnett's was written out of the show she made her opinions *quite* known.Because of that,there are certain House fans who, 3 years later, feel very strongly, and have been known to harass former show runners and writers on Twitter. Even now. And Barbara Barnett is *entirely* to blame for that.

I get that Barnett is in the buisness of writing about TV but when you can  get dissent in the ranks of  a fandom by writing your opinion and stating it as how *everyone* feels, that is a conflict of interest.

BTW, the 10th anniversary of House was the other day and the producer David Shore(one of the people involved with the show that she dislikes intensely) was one of the few people that acknowleged that fact on Twitter. Of course,I pointed that out to her and.. *crickets.* Yeah, she really dislikes him THAT much.

Fast forward to 2014.She's doing the same thing same thing with the Once Upon A Time fandom. A show she's watched for several years but now no longer reviews because(once again) she doesn't like the direction that the show runners are going in.

Yes, it is all a matter of opinion but a lot of the things that she had to say came off like nitpicking.For all the people  that agreed with her reviews, there were plenty of people who DISagreed with  her.Especially on IMDB.For all the smack that I talk about the IMDB boards(and I do) they know what's what on that score.

Now, she's moved on to The Walking Dead fandom, and I'm sure they'll be annoyed with her before too horribly long.It seems  like fandoms have become a little less innured to..outside opinion since House.

I'm waiting for The Walking Dead's show runner to do something wrong..at which point she will move on to another show.Probably. And it'll start all over again.

And finally, Hannibal: I have been hearing that some Mads fans have been feeling like Mads is getting short shrift from the official Tumblr and the like, and that the show is called Hannibal and that  Hannibal is the main character and other characters(Will, Jack, etc.) are minor characters. Yes, really.Luckily,that(unlike with House) is a small minority of the fandom. And there's plenty of people to call bullshit on it-that they love Mads/Hugh Hannibal/Will equally.

[one silkwood shower, please]

I had notes for this, but this is the sort of thing that I do better when I sort of do it off the top of my head, and for that reason, it's going to be a bit all over the place.I'm so sorry.

The TL:DR version of the story is this:Emily Rose, who is part of the Supernatural fandom, got kicked out of a con(convention). Her crime?A tweet of hers that was a pop culture reference. Said tweet was taken to the bodyguard of two of the show's actor's. It was perceived as a threat,

To be fair, the bodyguard was just doing his job(and I agree with the people that say we shouldn't send him hate). But the fact that they didn't do their due dillegence before acting in the manner they did is disturbing.

However, the back story behind this(that it was some fellow fans who have a beef with Emily that did this) I find disturbing. The bodyguard(and the organisers of the con) just assumed that she was a threat-and she wasn't! The convention organisers have claimed that they are "looking into it" and that they will make some sort of statement eventually. They know they're guilty, and don't want to admit it..they're trying to stall whilst they think of some way to spin this that doesn't make them look like douchebags. I want to hear the bodyguard's side of the story.

Oh and another thing? This *isn't* the first(or the last) time that the Supernatural fandom has gone a bit 'splodey(and probably won't be the last, either.)

Emily has some unorthodox opinions about ships, which has made her a lot of enemies.I don't mind shippers(hell,I'm a Hannigram shipper, but I don't make a big deal about it.

The time when it becomes a problem is when it starts affecting the show(House had Huddy shippers, who made it impossible to enjoy the show at a certain point. If you didn't like Huddy, it was like GTFO of the fandom. Really. And when the writers of the show ended that ship,it was like a cyber- angry mob with pitchforks. And they're still upset about it 3 years later. I can understand it when it initially happened, but holding a grudge? for that long?However, that's just my opinion/take on it and your mileage may vary.