Abandon

Finally, I must say that I finished the season tonight. My older son watched this season and is catching up on previous seasons online. He took the final episodes a little more seriously than I did. But...

( cut for spoilage )

All in all, I'll watch again, but not with the rapture I watched once upon a time. As a matter of fact, I can't really believe I *ever* felt that way.

In fact, the werewolves on TB really made me wish that the rumored Anita Blake TV show would come to be. These sketchy weres really made me appreciate the detials that LKH put into the Werewolf politics, all the pack structure with all the different critters. All that mythology and hierarchy. That would make some good telly at least until the loony sexathons started. It would be cancelled by then anyway! Just gimme a few seasons, at least til the Triumverate is formed and a little beyond? Move up the sexing a little in the timeline to make good TV? I'll start wishing harder. Oh, nevermind, it isn't happening and hasn't been for a long time...

You know, I haven't even finished the 14th (?!) Anita Blake book, Danse Macabre. I probably will now that I've been pondering it, but I have owned it for months now and I have yet to tear through it.

Now part of that is that as a rabid fan, I gotta make these things last until the next thing. As if! But still, there is the hope of slow and steady. I always intend to eat ice cream slowly, too. Hope springing eternal and all.

But this is not just delayed gratification. Or, at least, it is, but She has made it very easy to delay said gratification. The author has made it easy to put the book down.

So I wonder...I want to shoot her editor (14 books...probably 10 of which at least contain the grammatically offensive term 'pomme de sangs' which translates to 'apple of bloods' and it was in the 14th that it was finally repaired!)...I get the heebie-jeebies when faced with anything nonfiction written by the author--her blog, interviews, the like--and I feel violated by the arc of the story. By all standards, I should not be a fan.

And yet, I adore the Anitaverse and her fandom!

How sad is it that the canon is nowhere near as endearing, well-written, entertaining, in-character---you name it---as the fanon?!?!

I have mentally lumped LKH's stories about these characters in with all the great unwashed fanfic out there. It, like the others, will get sifted out, read, and reassigned to piles of relative worth. That statement ought to be censored for fear of legal backlash from the Author, huh?  She gets the money, though, and she created our favorite characters.....so she gets the credit. But other folks just treat them better sometimes!

Anyway, I had to share.