Comments on: The Rise and Fall of @Sutterink: Showrunners [Off] Twitter III http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: The Crow Flies Straight(er): Sons of Anarchy Season Four | Cultural Learnings http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-109062 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 06:35:12 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-109062 […] a few days after Kurt Sutter’s decision to leave Twitter and his decision to, well, repost an entire article I had written on the subject on his personal […]

]]> By: Donna Winston http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-104681 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:19:29 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-104681 I miss Kurt Sutter’s Twitter discussions. It is very true that he has no filter, but that’s what made him so real and entertaining. It was great to read his truth because he was willing to take the consequences, which ultimately made him quit Twitter. I loved that Damon Lindelof tweeted KS and gave him big kudos for telling it like it was and said he wished he could do the same. I bet you there are many Hollywood folks that would love to be as real as KS, but are afraid. What’s funny is that a lot of his rants were tongue and cheek and if you didn’t follow him, you didn’t get his personality so people thought he was an brash asshole.

Even though he had his blog Sutter Ink before Twitter, it’s just another great continuing outlet for him to convey his own human struggles and share his art. I for one adore the guy cause he lets it all hang out. I think he is a great writer and am just amazed at how detailed he is and how those very small details have weaved themselves through different seasons. I can’t wait for Season 4!

]]> By: Jamie http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-103261 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:27:45 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-103261 I for one am going to miss Kurt’s twitter. Never before have I followed someone so unfiltered and I LOVED it. Kurt’s a real dude and I appreciate it.

]]> By: Jamie http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-103260 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:27:16 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-103260 Just curious, but what was wrong with Season 3?

]]> By: Donnie http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-102910 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:10:26 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-102910 Yes, in the YouTube video embedded in the article he also shows some self-awareness about his online douchebaggery. I’m not sure if that absolves him, but at least he’s aware. However, he doesn’t seem to be aware of the major issues his show experienced in season 3, or why it wasn’t worthy of those Emmy nominations he ranted about. I guess that’s another issue entirely.

]]> By: Tausif Khan http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-102895 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:40:08 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-102895 His last tweet seems more like a response to a comment on his twitter behavior. Specifically here: “i’m a guy who needs filters. lots of them. it seems that my opinions turn into headlines and my black humor turns into tabloid fodder. clearly my 140 characters are causing more harm than good.” To me it seems like he was given a broadly conceived set of criticisms of his twitter personality which he is responding to here.

(If I am incorrect that he is referring to specific criticisms than I feel that he is being more self aware by showing people that he is fully aware of his personality, which he has always demonstrated previously. In that case I wonder if Steven Hyden’s piece “Self-awareness: pop culture’s “get out of jail” card”: http://www.avclub.com/articles/selfawareness-pop-cultures-get-out-of-jail-card,60227/ absolves him of some of the iconoclastically offensive behavior he has demonstrated through his @sutterink persona.)

For me (if this last tweet is a response to a specific set of broadly conceived criticisms of his twitter persona) this disconnection from twitter is less a Kurt Sutter idea and more of a FX (John Landgraf as far as he is the face of FX) decision.

]]> By: Donnie http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2011/08/14/the-rise-and-fall-of-sutterink-showrunners-off-twitter-iii/comment-page-1/#comment-102871 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:09:43 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=10249#comment-102871 I think this is a good thing. Kurt Sutter has one of the most unpleasant online personas I’ve come across, and his crybaby ranting has made me not want to watch Sons of Anarchy (though season 3 helped with that as well). A friend who’s never seen the show also told me he had no desire to watch it due to Sutter’s headline grabbing outbursts.

Of course, I’m not saying it’s reasonable to write off a show because you can’t stand the showrunner’s personality, but people will do it anyway. If Sutter wants the media to focus on his show and not him, deleting his Twitter is a good move.

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