Neat article. No mention of the giant ANTHROPOMORPHISM callout in the Zootopia trailer? Funny how Disney never had to label what they do in all their previous projects... while this one had marketing sent to furry lists...
About the Lucifer episode:
This was a So-Cal product, where I think "the evil media" hyper-over-sensitivity may be even higher than in the fandom's other brain center over in Pittsburgh. It's where the CSI episode etc landed most directly. The scaremongering hits almost cult-propaganda levels, where professionals who are super well suited to give sympathetic/high quality mainstream media coverage (like a writer from The Atlantic) get treated like Scientology treats heretics. Doing that is a great way to shoot yourself in the footpaw...
This TV episode was written directly in response to that, they sought out furries for their input. The final product reflects that. Like:
“furries get a bad rap but they’re almost never sexual—most of the time, totally wholesome, if that’s what you were thinking”— which the onlooker wasn’t thinking. I’m glad she stuck up for us, but did she have to bring up, unprompted, our negative stereotype in order to deny it? I suppose the writer thought she was looking out for us, but it felt a little unnatural, and not the supernatural kind.
If it seems like the writer was looking out for us, they WERE - if it feels unnatural, it's just what furries asked for! That's an example of hyper-over-sensitivity. But the furries who were involved loved being in the show (I have a long in person interview with one on deck to flesh out...)
Pottersville I think hit this weird middle spot between not Troma movie over-the-top enough and not sincerely holiday-movie enough. I thought it was kind of fun and worth a watch once, seeing Ron Perlman do that one line was wild. It could have been so much better if it went one way or the other (you'd be extremely unhappy if they included the parts they left on the cutting room floor). Anyways, this review summed it up perfectly, the review is so worth reading for entertaining film criticism... http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/a-few-questions-about-michael-shannons-furry-chri...
Neat article. No mention of the giant ANTHROPOMORPHISM callout in the Zootopia trailer? Funny how Disney never had to label what they do in all their previous projects... while this one had marketing sent to furry lists...
About the Lucifer episode:
This was a So-Cal product, where I think "the evil media" hyper-over-sensitivity may be even higher than in the fandom's other brain center over in Pittsburgh. It's where the CSI episode etc landed most directly. The scaremongering hits almost cult-propaganda levels, where professionals who are super well suited to give sympathetic/high quality mainstream media coverage (like a writer from The Atlantic) get treated like Scientology treats heretics. Doing that is a great way to shoot yourself in the footpaw...
This TV episode was written directly in response to that, they sought out furries for their input. The final product reflects that. Like:
If it seems like the writer was looking out for us, they WERE - if it feels unnatural, it's just what furries asked for! That's an example of hyper-over-sensitivity. But the furries who were involved loved being in the show (I have a long in person interview with one on deck to flesh out...)
Pottersville I think hit this weird middle spot between not Troma movie over-the-top enough and not sincerely holiday-movie enough. I thought it was kind of fun and worth a watch once, seeing Ron Perlman do that one line was wild. It could have been so much better if it went one way or the other (you'd be extremely unhappy if they included the parts they left on the cutting room floor). Anyways, this review summed it up perfectly, the review is so worth reading for entertaining film criticism... http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/a-few-questions-about-michael-shannons-furry-chri...