#ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST

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zoey’s extraordinary outfits ♡ zoey's extraordinary christmas (part two)

[its-to-the-death]

Battle of the Gingers Wave 1 Preliminary Round #6

Whoever gets the most votes moves onto the next wave

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[flipjack]

Jane Levy stylin'

[harveyguillensource]

Harvey throwing back to his slick dancing in rehearsal for his "Stronger" number on Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

[fluffyspaceshark]

I'm so dumb.

How dumb you ask?

I spent the entire morning doing some dumb song fic thing for Katsuki Bakugou and an original character I've been developing. Basing it around Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist.

Yeah. I wrote 9 fucking chapters of it before stopping. A freaking song in each one.

Dumb.

I am dumb.

[crackwhorism]

lowkey missing zoey's extraordinary playlist. that sure was a time

[veronicamarsconfessions]

The Unfortunate Pattern Of TV Shows Lying To Fans

Showrunner Dick Wolf is in hot water this week with fans of Law & Order: SVU on Twitter. Digging into the complaints, the current outcry isn’t really a surprise. Take a ship that’s been working on a slow burn for almost a quarter of a century, add in some bait-and-switch advertising, and you have a perfect storm.

While it’s true that showrunners have the right to run their shows how they see fit – and while fandom teasing is pretty much a staple of the medium – no fan appreciates being lied to. And there is very much a difference between teasing fans and lying to them.

Shippers of Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) have been hanging in through thick and thin for almost 25 years. Their dedication seemed like it was about to pay off, as promos for the most recent episode teased that this couple might finally – finally – kiss. Ultimately, not only did a kiss not happen but the shot featured in the promo – with Benson caressing Stabler’s face – was cut from the episode entirely.

Things happen in editing shows, and sometimes things get cut. So is this a case of “teasing fans” or lying to them? After almost a quarter of a century, it’s hard not to feel like this isn’t the latter.

Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist showrunner Austin Winsberg earned the fandom’s ire in the show’s second season when he promised the end of the dreaded love triangle. Only to very much keep the love triangle alive. Now, in this case, this was a case of the showrunner genuinely misunderstanding what “love triangles” mean in fandom spaces. He seems to have interpreted “fans hate love triangles” as “fans hate arcs in which a character can’t or won’t decide between two romantic prospects.”

Failing to realize that “making one choice and then later making another choice, and then later going back to the first choice” is, indeed, being unable to decide. Still, the promise of “no more love triangle” was followed pretty quickly by the return of the love triangle leaving fans feeling intentionally misled.

The case of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist is a good argument for shows to have fandom consultants for showrunners who have probably not engaged in fandom spaces the way fans do and thus may mistake how things will be perceived. Winsberg professed the entire problem to have been a massive misunderstanding on his end. Perhaps that’s why fans of the series were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and successfully fought to save the show from premature cancellation.

Veronica Mars showrunner Rob Thomas got into similar trouble for handling the show’s last season. The Logan/Veronica ship (LoVe) had been a major focus of the series and subsequent movie. It was no wonder, then, that they were outraged when the fourth season ended with Logan’s death. Adding insult to injury, Rob Thomas explained the decision by basically saying that Veronica is “boring” when she’s happy in love and not traumatized and that he wanted to completely change the concept of the show moving forward.

Veronica Mars was a particularly special case of showrunners lying to the fan base because of the unusual nature of his salvation. Fans – a large number of them LoVe shippers – had directly been responsible for funding the Kickstarter that got the film sequel to the prematurely canceled series green-lit. Which led to the show’s subsequent pickup on Hulu. And Thomas knew how invested these fans – fans he directly called upon to resurrect his series – were heavily invested in LoVe. There was even an entire series of promos featuring Kristen Bell and Jason Dohring reading LoVe fanfiction leading up to the fourth season.

Teasing fans is a natural thing for shows to do. It keeps fans engaged. It creates buzz. But, as evidenced by Veronica Mars, when fans feel like teasing has become lying, they may not stick around to give the show another chance.

[yourfaveisqueerandreligious]

mo from zoey's extraordinary playlist is christian (canon) and genderfluid (canon)

submitted by @spaceacekid

[zoeysplaylistgifs]

zoey’s extraordinary outfits ♡ zoey's extraordinary christmas (part one)

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Do you ship it?

i haven't watched either of these but i see the vision

[rachel-bloom]

zoey's extraordinary playlist + gc shenanigans

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Jane Levy at the “Evil Dead Rise” premiere

[bakerolivia]

ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST ( 2020 - 2021 )

[theawkwardanglophile]

I got to meet the queen herself, Lauren Graham, this past weekend! It was a delight, and she seemed so gracious when I told her how much of a fan I was.