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give their thoughts and opinions" and updated my thread on originaltrilogy.com to let others know it was available. But alas, the only response I received was the sound of chirping crickets!
I am 100% sure that is not the purpose of this thread. As a newer faneditor, I'm certain tremault just was trying to figure out how the community works and if there's anything she could do to get better engagement.I feel like this thread just exists to make people feel guilty for watching. You shouldn't.
This may be technically true, but it seems like kind of a jerk move. I understand that attitude of not wanting to expect anything from anyone, but personally when I view a fanedit, I totally feel a sense of obligation to the editor. I place that on myself, but I feel like the absolute least I can do after someone has put their blood, sweat, and tears into trying to make something creative and cool is to let them know if it worked on me or not.Yeah, ultimately nobody owes anybody anything here.
^This. Even if I didn't totally fall in love with an edit, I try to give credit where it's due. I'll at least mention the positive points in a review, while trying not to just blow smoke at them. Who knows, maybe something I say even helps give an insight and they are inspired to make their work even better?As a huge proponent of open-source software and the mindset behind it, I totally understand the mindset of the artist who does their work for essentially free, and I know how much it means just to get a bit of recognition from the people who partake of it.
I am 100% sure that is not the purpose of this thread. As a newer faneditor, I'm certain tremault just was trying to figure out how the community works and if there's anything she could do to get better engagement.
This may be technically true, but it seems like kind of a jerk move. I understand that attitude of not wanting to expect anything from anyone, but personally when I view a fanedit, I totally feel a sense of obligation to the editor. I place that on myself, but I feel like the absolute least I can do after someone has put their blood, sweat, and tears into trying to make something creative and cool is to let them know if it worked on me or not.
Your comments here are more than enough in length and expressiveness to be valid as a review… there is no expectation on length or quality of prose…so I salute you sharing your challenging situation and applaud your openness…Personally, while I have managed to get out 3 decently sized reviews throughtout the 1 month i've been active on here, for some reason I find it almost physically painful to express my opinion into a coherent form. I think that there is definitely a subset of people like myself who, even though they would find posting a full or partial review satisfying, might procrastinate doing so until the heat death of the universe because they find the act of personal expression draining.
Although part of it for me is definitely my ADHD going absolutely hogwild whenever I try to focus on something for an extended period of time. Big shout-out to anyone who is dealing with the same issue on this site.
@AtlanticCheer I agree with Wraith. It's harder for me to be succinct in writing than to just put all my thoughts out there, so I'm definitely "guilty" of writing lengthy reviews...but I would hate for that to feel like pressure for everyone to do the same. I'm sure a lot of faneditors, happy as they'd be to get an in-depth review, would also be happy (or even prefer) a review that just had a compliment or two and maybe one suggestion:
-"This was awesome! Totally replaces the theatrical cut for me."
-"I just wish there were subtitles..."
-"Thanks to the faneditor!"
That's better than radio-silence, which could leave the faneditor feeling like the viewer just didn't like the edit, and is being silent because they don't have anything positive to say. Or maybe worse yet: the edit made no impact one way or another and was forgettable.
Props to you for getting your reviews out there, even though it doesn't come naturally to you!
Yes oh my goodness. It’s so annoying! Like I van read the synopsis when I’m about to watch it if I really want to get a hint for what it’s about, I don’t need you to summarize it. I want your thoughts on the film, things that stuck out, what it means to you, etc.Jumping a tad left field, most modern reviewers think handing out a plot summary is a review….drives me mad…sure I don’t expect that they might say “evocative of Kurosawa” but give me a break.