A while back some message board threads were discussing different things about the Serial Squadron, both pro and con, and I suddenly realized I hadn’t been to the site in several months. It had been so long that the address had fallen off my drop down box. In looking back I noticed it wasn’t a conscious decision, I hadn’t got ticked off about something and said “Well, I’m never going back there again!” If I remember correctly my last post was a rather innocuous one. For some reason I just stopped going.
Curious about how I could just abruptly stop something like that without realizing I had, I became even more introspective than usual to see why. It came down to two things. One is that I go to message boards to take about serials, and sometimes other types of films, and the Squadron seems to be set up solely to sell Squadron product. Nothing wrong with a guy selling stuff he makes, America’s business is business as Calvin Coolidge used to say, but as I don’t go through dealers, only buying retail (sort of a self checking system on my part to keep me from bankrupting myself, if I can’t get it through Borders of Best Buy I don’t really need it) I feel it is a bit disingenuous of me to go there since I am never going to buy any of their DVD-R’s.
Two is that I’m just tired of arguing with Eric. Every time I go there he posts something so inflammatory to me I felt the need to respond. And then there would be a long ongoing argument, which was kind of fun at first, as I’ve never really tried to defend my position on opinions before. I even tried to make it fun by inserting debate and chess jokes at the end of my posts, which apparently had the opposite effect on Eric and thread responses got very heated on his part. I think the last argument we had was about actors mispronouncing words and names on purpose.
Yes you read that right. And the absurdity of it must have hit home on an unconscious level at first. Because quite frankly I just don’t care about the things that apparently get Eric so worked up. I don’t care how fans choose to watch serials, I don’t care that the new Green Lantern movie will be about Hal Jordan and not John Stewart, I don’t care if an actor doesn’t pronounce mercury the way everyone else does, I would rather talk about how much I liked or didn’t like The Galloping Ghost or Son of Tarzan, which I can’t get on that message board.
I know that this post may cause a very heated and angry response from Eric on the Squadron board, but as I probably won’t see it, I guess it doesn’t really matter what names I may or not be called, or accused of implied ulterior motives, as I said in previous paragraph, I really don’t care anymore. Like Mike Nesmith I’ll just keep on keeping on.
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