But every fandom I've been around (since joining the online fanfic/media portion) starts going insane in May, continues through the summer, and only starts calming down in September.
In other words (at least in the US), it follows the network television season. Things start getting crazy as the pressure re renewal mounts, then *really* get crazy when new canon isn't being produced and/or cliffhangers are causing freakouts. Things start to calm down when the new season starts up.
The exception that proves the rule to me has been Stargate Atlantis. There's crazyness (craziness?) there all the time, due to the screwed up (in comparison to broadcast networks) scheduling, the broken season (half shown now, half shown later - sometimes as much as 9 months later), and the syndication scheduling. It's been even crazier this year because viewers outside the US got the latest partial season first, which means that the new episodes being show now are also kinda reruns to a lot of downloading/tape(or DVD)-sharing types.
Anyway, that's my view of the annual fandom insanity.
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But every fandom I've been around (since joining the online fanfic/media portion) starts going insane in May, continues through the summer, and only starts calming down in September.
In other words (at least in the US), it follows the network television season. Things start getting crazy as the pressure re renewal mounts, then *really* get crazy when new canon isn't being produced and/or cliffhangers are causing freakouts. Things start to calm down when the new season starts up.
The exception that proves the rule to me has been Stargate Atlantis. There's crazyness (craziness?) there all the time, due to the screwed up (in comparison to broadcast networks) scheduling, the broken season (half shown now, half shown later - sometimes as much as 9 months later), and the syndication scheduling. It's been even crazier this year because viewers outside the US got the latest partial season first, which means that the new episodes being show now are also kinda reruns to a lot of downloading/tape(or DVD)-sharing types.
Anyway, that's my view of the annual fandom insanity.