Fursonas - My Review

I paid for (via Vimeo) downloaded and watched the Fursonas documentary this week and came away with disappointment. While it was well produced and had several entertaining interviews with well known and infamous furries, it fails in its argument that all Furries should be honest and open to the media because of it's mean-spirited way it treats Uncle Kage.

The documenting team did to Kage what bad TV reporters have done to cons and furries for years who deny interviews or anything else they want to film - they Google the internet, take random video clips from YouTube and carefully edit them to give a bad impression or to shock viewers. It overall winds up being a smear job designed to make Kage look bad, and makes our fandom look bad too.

Because of scenes of furries smoking pot and a (cringe inducing) Bad Dragon product demonstration, I wouldn't recommend showing Fursonas to anyone as an introduction to the fandom. While watching this documentary I got the feeling the people who made it haven't been involved in the fandom very long, haven't gone to enough conventions and talked to enough furries to get a good idea about us, learned about the past history of the fandom and its dealing with the media, and how to put together a documentary about the fandom that doesn't shock or mock anyone.

I was also disappointed that they interviewed mostly fursuiters. With all the money they generated they could have easily interviewed fursuit builders, comic and book writers, musicians and artists. These people in our fandom hardly ever get interviewed. NOTHING was talked about the charity work Anthrocon and other fur cons around the world have done to raise millions of dollars for people and animals in need.

I hope this documentary doesn't wind up hurting Anthrocon (especially relations with the city government of Pittsburgh) because Kage and the AC staff have done a fantastic job helping to improve the image of our fandom. It's sad the people who created this documentary didn't understand that.