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The Walking Dead: The Evolution Of Fandoms

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Everyone is a fan of something. Whether it is a famous actor, pop singer, or sports team, being a fan is someone who is enthusiastically devoted to something or somebody. People are also enthusiastic fans of TV shows, and there are some that are not just fans of TV shows, they are fandoms. Fan, fandom, aren’t they the same? There is actually a big difference between the two. Fandom is way more intense; more involved. Fandoms, are passionate about there shows. It is a community, a place to discuss a common interest with other passionate fans. To show their passion, these extreme fans write fan fiction, draw fan art, go to conventions, wear fan cloth, argue over the best season, knows every episode, buys the merchandise, and ultimately schedules their …show more content…

Like most films that are adaptations of novels (Ex. Harry Potter, Hunger Games, etc.), The Walking Dead was originally a comic book. The Walking Dead comic books had many followers and when it transferred to television, those fans would follow. When a fan jumps from on form of text to another and become emotionally attached it is known as “cyclical fandom”. These fans have a deep connection with the show than any other viewer. According to Jenkins, Robert Kirkman (creator of The Walking Dead show), established a deeply personal relationship with his fans, sharing behind the scenes information about his efforts to get the series optioned and then developed for television, responding to reader controversies, and discussing the comic’s core premises and genre conventions (“the rules”). It is through this process that the producers can help figure out what they owe to the comics and to their readers (Jenkins). This shows how fanbases can influence direction of storylines for the

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In order to deal with such knowledge, Dawidziak richly displays and details a wide variety of aspects that a fan may not be mindful of. Ultimately, he does this by using aforementioned accounts such as, "...the action-packed fifth-season premiere serves up a bounty of everything you savor about this supernatural series: nerve-jangling suspense, grand gross-outs, intriguing character study, razor-sharp dialogue, heart-thumping action, psychologically riveting moral dilemmas, state-of-the-art monster makeup and scream-inducing special effects." Finally, in order to specifically help those who are not already Walking Dead fans understand and appreciate the review, Dawidziak writes, "For all of the rotting zombies limping through these eerie episodes, this remains a show about human beings constantly struggling to hold on to their humanity. For all of those bone-snapping, flesh-tearing, vein-squishing, skull-smashing special effects, "The Walking Dead" essentially is a drama about what it means to be human . . . under the most desperate of circumstances."

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He had a fandom before writing Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog because he had helped produce and fill the numerous roles of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Avengers, the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. His fandom closely follows all of his creations and it did not take long for them to jump on the boat of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. When Joss Whedon’s fandom watched the first act of Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, they could barely wait for the release of the next two acts. The other writers helped make Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog a cult fiction as well because they each have had different produced numerous items that had their own

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Rich also mentions in the article that a girl’s mother is not satisfied by the fact that her daughter would much rather read and write fan fiction- fictional stories made up by fans and published in order to let others read their own ending or spinoff of a cartoon, movie, book, game, etc. - on the internet than to read books (Rich, Literacy Debate, The New York Times). Reading fan fiction requires as much skill as reading an average book because fan fictions are stories

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The “Bridge to Terabithia 2” is an example of fan fiction because Jess dies and Leslie lives. In the book, Leslie dies and Jess lives. For instance, it states that Leslie is driving with her parents, the excerpt informs us that Jess is injured horribly and in a medically induced coma: “Her best friend survived the initial surgery and was placed in a medically induced coma” (Ch.2 Paragraph 1). The quote explains who was in a coma, which is Jess, and who is alive which is Leslie. We know later on the Jess dies ultimately to “save” Leslie’s life.

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Teenagers have found a new type of reading called fan fiction. Personally, I don’t read fan fiction for fun on the internet. I do read news articles, or entertainment news on websites. However, Nadia, a fifteen-year-old girl, spends her free time on the internet on fanfiction.net (Rich 25). It doesn’t surprise me

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He says that it a word for fan fiction, a genre that he has an interest with, hence he considers to be a piece of what he calls “participatory culture” (Jenkins 2006a: 3). He contends that numerous transmedia stories leave enough space for fans to develop their own parts of the story, which may not be a piece of the official standard (Jenkins 2009a). Fan fiction does not certainly rebut the standard storyline, but rather supplements it, leaving the coherence whole. Jenkins has been so devoted to these grassroots activities that he has even distributed a thorough book on this point” (Jenkins

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