It's that time of year again!

[theweaselking]

Time for my annual griping about the Hugo awards!

This year, actually, I have very little to complain about. The voters were remarkably sensible, picking the correct Best Novel, Best Graphic Story, Best Dramatic Presentation Long Form, and Best Fan Writer. Congratulations, ursulav, by the way. That's awesome.

Most of the rest, I have no opinion on - the only blatant mistake due to voters having no taste at all this year was Best Dramatic Presentation Short Form, where name recognition and it's accompanying unthinking fansquee gave the twee, trite, predictable, anvilicious, and boring "The Doctor's Wife" the Hugo, based entirely on "Doctor Who and Neil Gaiman!" over the actually excellent "Remedial Chaos Theory".

(Seriously, the fact that the ballot had three Who episodes, two of which were not very good and one which was actively horrible, and a Hugo acceptance speech from last year? Was just sad.)

Comments

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Best Novella was definitely right, too :D

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't know any of them, so I have no opinion there.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

Have to agree there. There are many things I would happily give Gaiman a Hugo for, but TDW isn't one of them. Mawkish and glurgey and what you said.

But a lot of recent Who seems to go in that direction.

[whisperkit.livejournal.com]

I'm curious to know what you found anvilicious in TDW; I've not seen it since it aired.

[daveon.livejournal.com]

I suspect that the problem here is less people watch Community. It's not available readily on conventional streaming services and a lot of people just haven't watched it.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

Remember that the Who Fandom is to the rest of fandom what Azathoth was to everything else in the Cthulhu Mythos; It's a mad idiot god, the ancient and incomprehensible nuclear chaos at the heart of much of modern fandom, to which other fandoms are but mere shadows cast upon a cave's wall, whose woe-begotten decisions and opinions are like mere eldritch whale song to the pseudo-ears of fandom's crazed sultan. There, beyond the borders of sanity, within Fandom's cyclopean dream-palaces, this mooncalf chorus that other fandoms eminate towards it lulls the squamous hyper-beast into a sleep where, insensible and twitching, it is lost withinin a dream from which it must never awake lest it destroys all we hold dear with the merest unintended sweep of an eyelash.

And if all it takes to stop Doctor Who Fandom destorying us all in an orgy of flame and tentacles that will see AT LEAST civilisation as we know it tumble down around our ears, is the regular awarding of hugo awards for best dramatic presentation short form to any of the several Doctor Who episodes that get nominated each year, then so be it.