Empire

[frelling_tralk]

Just finished season 1 of Empire and I've really been enjoying it, has anyone else on my flist been following it? :) My favourite character is Cookie naturally, and I'm afraid that I've ended up shipping her and Lucious, even though he is of course terrible in every way, but somehow their chemistry and history has completely sucked me in all the same XD Oh and another character that I have a soft spot for is Andre. At first he didn't make much impression on me, but then towards the end I was really starting to emphasis with him. It always seems clear that Cookie first favoured Jamal before starting to bond more with Hakeem, and vice versa for Lucious, whereas Andre was always the afterthought, even his brothers clearly like one another more than they like him :( It really made me feel so bad for him when the rest of his family were all singing together, and he was always the outsider. I was kind of expecting Cookie to worry about him more after his mental breakdown actually, and realise that he needed more mothering that she had at first assumed, but even that seemed to be brushed aside very quickly after that initial scene of the family with him in the hospital, ironically Lucious was the only parent that seemed to be around and paying attention when Andre first left the hospital and had his religious crisis

And I'm totally team Andre on who should get the company, he's the oldest, he works hard, and he's clearly the most responsible. Neither Jamal or Hakeen have show any business aptitude, yet Lucious originally had a plan to hand the company over to Hakeen just because he liked the way that he rapped, when can anyone see Hakeen doing a good job with running a billion dollar company??? And Jamal was a better choice than Hakeen granted, but he's never shown any real interest in anything other than making music, he was just flattered at being chosen because it meant that he was finally getting his father's acceptance. Meanwhile even Cookie is telling Hakeen that she thinks it should be him and Jamal running the business between them, never mind the eldest son being the one who went to business school, and who actually has the skills and experience when it comes to running their company. So yeah, I am firmly Team Andre *g*


One thing that did surprise me was that, after reading that it's the number one drama on American television, I found that the online fandom really doesn't reflect that at all? There's next to no fannish content when it comes to fanfic or fan music videos, there's not a whole lot of icons or fanart either, and there's really not all that much discussion anywhere. For such a supposedly massive hit I was really expecting a little more, but half of the tumblr communities for Empire don't seem to have been updated in months...

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[bm-shipper.livejournal.com]

You know, even hit-shows don't have a huge fandom following nowadays and there are basically no icons whatsoever... like iZOMBiE for example has basically nothing and "The Flash" or even "Arrow" don't even have that massive of a following anymore unfortunately... fans have just become quiet, I think...

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

True, it has become harder to find good icons these days :( There's usually a lot of activity on tumblr at least though, and I couldn't even find much of that in the Empire tag