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Rayhana
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Date Posted: 6/02/03 4:40am
In reply to:
MegL
's message, "Re: Too Much Information" on 5/02/03 11:29pm
You may very well be right about Keith. He may indeed have negotiated an out clause. If he does leave, I do see the show suffering a great dael, as many fans have come to it because of him. It would be a shame and I do hope it doesn't happen, but one never knows. Stars of shows leave all the time usually to take on other projects they feel are much better suited.
My hope is that if he does leave it is for a project that is better suited to him, one he was able to obtain from his role on Andromeda and not for other, more negative reasons that could impact the show.
If this comes to pass, then it is obvious that the show is taking on a whole new feel IMO. I will be here to see what that is. I guess all we can do is wait and see what happens.
Rayhana
>Yes it makes sense. Online fandom is a double edge
>sword and one of the downsides is that by knowing all
>the information fans do online, it can lead to fans
>getting sucked into behind the scenes squabbles on a
>level that fans who aren't involved online often don't
>get drawn into.
>
>That said, I don't blame the Internet for all of the
>more recent darkside of fandom - IMO fandom had that
>darkside pre-Internet and they just brought it with
>them :-(.
>
>One of those darksides, since at least the 1980s, has
>been fans and SFTV show creative people (from actors
>to writers and producers, though I'm not talking about
>actors interacting with fans via their personal
>fanclubs - that to me is a different dynamic, separate
>from this) getting too chummy with each other, IMO.
>For reasons that have varied from fandom to fandom,
>the chumminess almost always turns out to implode on
>the fandom and the show and Andromeda turned out to
>follow the rule, in my book, not the exception
>(Farscape fandom is the exception I know of, but there
>may be others).
>
>Anyway, I don't hold anyone responsible for what
>happened with Andromeda. When the chumminess works, it
>can be a great force for promoting a show and I don't
>believe that anyone on either side of the fence (fans
>or the creative people) ever really think about the
>downside before it happens. They either don't think it
>will happen to their fandom or they simply don't know
>that it could happen to begin with. As well, if I were
>close friends with the creative people and they were
>done wrong, IMO or theirs, I probably would pick them
>over the show as well. It's a case of showing loyalty
>to friends and maybe it's one reason I don't let
>myself become to close to people in the business :-(
>
>Then Rayhanna wrote:
>
>>As to Keith, who knows. I know sometime back he
>>posted something, I think before S3 and everyone
>>thought he was leaving. He didn't. My understanding
>>was that everyone had signed for S4.
>
>From what I've been able to put together, via the
>scuttlebutt that was showing up in soap opera
>magazines* and things that Keith seemed to be hinting
>at**, I'm of the opinion Keith re-negotiated his
>contract last year. If so, it's highly possible he
>setup the new contract to let him have a "out" clause
>for S4.
>
>That said, I think Keith is leaving the show. While
>nothing has been said officially, enough stuff has
>already been dropped suggesting it could happen. So I
>think fans who like the show should start preparing
>for it to happen, whether it comes to pass or not :-/
>
>
>Meg
>
>*All My Children (his old soap) wanted him back and he
>seems to have used that to get a better deal with
>Andromeda.
>
>** part of the new deal allowed him to lose the bone
>blades
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