ErMaC wrote:I will quote exactly what she said, emphasis added:
That crazy lady wrote:Fourth... The Action winner of the viewer's choice... It was one of the last videos shown. Due to the crappy time slot of the contest, alot of people came in at the end of the action category and therefore didn't see all the action videos, and only voted on the last two or three they saw. When the better action videos in the catergory where shown much earlier. The 1st video was one of the best (and even if it was miscategorized). If people missed videos from a category, they should not be allowed to vote for that category.
Now, copious grammatical mistakes aside, sounds to me like she's saying his video wasn't as good as the others, and they were more deserving. I tend to disagree.
I do apologize that my interpretation doesn't match yours; you are exactly correct in that the emphasis added is your own. I read that to mean that she liked some earlier videos better and thought that they hadn't had a fair chance, not that his video was somehow bad and/or undeserving. You chose to read her comment as a personal insult, and I chose to read it as a statement of opinion and valid description of a problem with the contest.
It's a contest. Everyone is going to feel that some vids are better than others; that's the point. Note that she did not expound upon his video being awful, just stated her opinion in a rather non-inflammatory way. Your comment about her giving him crap was uncalled for, especially given his response.
I, too, feel that the contest suffered from its early time slot, and that the action category in particular - being earliest - suffered the most. I liked the Kiddy Grade vid*, but I liked the Gundam 0083 and Big O vids more. I think that the popular vote might've turned out differently if everyone had seen all the action vids, even though that isn't necessarily true; there's no way to know how. That's just how it is. However, this problem could be avoided in the future by giving the amv contest a later time slot.
Personally, I agree with Anneke that the Fanime contest being more about politics than the merit of individual videos - but I also feel that that's how most contests of this nature are.
Your analogy of the Oscars Vs. the MTV movie awards is fairly accurate - in the Oscars, you get movies, acting, etc. voted on by the Academy, who tend to pat the backs of other Academy members an awful lot, whereas with the MTV awards, you get what the populace actually votes on. (Note that I am generally unsatisfied with the Oscars, not because they don't choose to vote upon the popular/money-making films, but because they tend to ignore the merit of independant, foreign, and genre films, relegating them to minor categories. This has improved with recent years - ten years ago, Johnny Depp's performance in Pirates of the Carribiean would've been ignored entirely.)
I've read your reviews of the contest, and I agree with a great many of them, including your review of my Irish Enchilada video. I was blown away that they decided to show it over the vid I was really entering (we threw it onto the cd we sent since, well, it couldn't hurt to submit more than one). (Just because it's *my* best lipsynching doesn't mean it's particularly good lip synching, except for one bit at the end.)
I don't know that the coordinators actually understood the humor of the vid, since it's series-specific, but evidently they got a laugh out of it. However, I don't agree with it being placed in the comedy category (it's a parody! It's not even to music!), especially since that meant that some other, much more funny vids didn't make it (United States of Whatever, Let This Be the End of Evangelion - even if they did have tech problems). You had the only possible reaction for someone not familiar with Weiss Kreuz. However, I do think that you tend to state things - and take things - in as inflammatory a way as possible. You're being a bit of a poor winner, and I say that with no influence from my feeligs on that matter. Let the other people here have their opinions.
* = I also have the song stuck in my head, which means I should go download the vid and play it often. That doesn't happen to me very much. Kudos, JCD
