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Day 11: What would make you leave a fandom, or prevent you from getting into it in the first place?

I tend to shy away from getting too involved in fandom these days. While I don't regret my time being involved in Smallville fandom and I got to meet a lot of great people, the drama and the ship wars definitely left a toll and has me kind of skittish since.

So I usually just read fic and follow a few people with similar interests and call it a day. It's pretty easy to do on Tumblr. I am not on Reddit or Discord or anything so it is easy to avoid interacting with a more general audience and limit it to people who enjoy and ship the things you like.

Drama, ship wars, and the types of discourse that happen are definitely what would keep me away though. I don't want any part of that. I would only leave a fandom completely if I lost interest in the canon and didn't want to participate anymore. I did that with Smallville- dropped the show for a year after "Doomsday" pissed me off, and mostly stayed away from the fandom. I used to have an icon that legit said something like, "smallville fandom- home of the neverending wank". It was fitting. I think I was in a better place when I got back for sure though.

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That makes sense. Davis was supposed to be a bartender when they were going to have him be with Lois or have something with Lois, and then they moved it to Chloe, and changed him to a paramedic, and even the former doesn't sound right. Like you said, Smallville rarely goes with the "pure evil villain" archetype. They tend to prefer characters with shades of gray. Even with Zod, they gave him his moments. If they had make Davis more evil, his flip in the finale after he was separated from Doomsday would've made more sense, or at least make him more manipulative rather than sweet and sincere, which is really how he came off for most of the season.

Yeah, they could've just sent him to the Phantom Zone? He had a shot to come back from there and they could've fought again in the future. I know they had Tess destroy the crystal but that was the plan that made the most sense still. It definitely was them using a familiar name to draw attention though. On a grander scale, the MCU did that with the Civil War plot, taking a storyline that was more well known in the comics and try to adapt it and it just didn't work there either.

Huh, I knew that Lex controlled Doomsday and that is what killed Superman and his manipulation but that was it. Kind of weird and random, when Doomsday tends to be its own plot for most Superman canons. The MCU just made me tired of heroes fighting each other so I couldn't bring myself to watch it.