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

[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.