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One of the other things that came out of our CON.TXT panel was the idea of posing a "Question of the Week" as a way of hopefully digging a little deeper on some topics that either have been only lightly covered, or have happened long enough ago now that it could take a group discussion to jog everyone's memories when it comes to details. One of the first examples that got batted around the room was Due South's Ray Wars.
What happened?
Those of us on the committee who spent time in Due South came in, as![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cordelia_v noted, after the smoking corpses were already cleared from the battlefield and we understood that it was really bad, but people were tired of it and just wanted to get back to the fun aspects of fandom in whatever safe zone they had chosen. And maybe people are still weary of all that? Or still leery of it? Because if you look at the entry on the wiki, it's very restrained. It sounds a little like an argument over tea. (I suppose Fraser would downplay it a bit.)
There are a couple of great perspectives from some fans that also came into the fandom towards the end of the war, but for those of you who lived through it all, what really happened? Who joined the fandom at the start of season three with the new Ray?
What happened?
Those of us on the committee who spent time in Due South came in, as
cordelia_v noted, after the smoking corpses were already cleared from the battlefield and we understood that it was really bad, but people were tired of it and just wanted to get back to the fun aspects of fandom in whatever safe zone they had chosen. And maybe people are still weary of all that? Or still leery of it? Because if you look at the entry on the wiki, it's very restrained. It sounds a little like an argument over tea. (I suppose Fraser would downplay it a bit.)There are a couple of great perspectives from some fans that also came into the fandom towards the end of the war, but for those of you who lived through it all, what really happened? Who joined the fandom at the start of season three with the new Ray?
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From what I understood from someone who was a witness, it was all on mailing lists, back when the first two seasons of the show aired and there was a HUGE F/V following.
The show got canceled, and the fans fought fought FOUGHT to get the show back, and they won!! And then it was announced that David Marciano wasn't coming back, and here was this new Ray, and some people were REALLY unhappy with that, and didn't like the new Ray OR the "joke" that he was supposed to BE Ray Vecchio, and they clashed with the fans that were starting to like Ray K BETTER, and it was a HUGE mess.
There was a RECENT round of Ray vs Ray unpleasantness (a year or two ago?) and that was so INCREDIBLY unpleasant that it was easy to see how the original Ray Wars could have been so damaging.
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