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Ten unpopular fannish opinions, gacked from alara_r

1. "Public critique is not just morally acceptable, it is in fact a duty." (Alara put it better than me, so I'm stealing this one straight from her) Yes, newbie writers need encouraging, but if they don't want the public to comment about their work, they should hide it from the public.
   
2. "And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" (third season Babylon 5 episode) is a horrible episode, demonstrating JMS's conviction that "God is a malign thug". Of course the fact that the message was almost entirely visual, in the juxtaposition of a revenge-murder with a gospel revival service, causes most people to miss it. However this episode was the second-last straw, for me. The last straw was "Z'ha'dum".
   
3. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (the movie) was fun, and actually had some deepness in it. I enjoyed watching the airhead Buffy getting some maturity, while her friends stayed airheads.
   
4. Avon is not sexy. He's a poor boy that needs some affection.
   
5. Slashiness is entirely in the mind of the beholder.
   
6. Turning a strong character into a snivelling wreck because you like hurt/comfort is simply character assassination, if you don't allow that character to fight back to demonstrate their strength. Having all that torture made better by a hug and some chicken soup is just bad writing. Yes, I'm talking about Wimp!Blair here. Or evem Wimp!Daniel. Or Wimp! anybody, really. Well, Vila *is* a wimp, but he's not usually the torturee du jour.
   
7. Attacking character A and turning them into a bitch (or what is the male equivalent of bitch?) just because you percieve them to be a rival for character B's affections, or simply because you like character B a lot, is plain character assassination, and really stupid. No, no, it does not make a character look better if somebody else looks worse. Yes, this includes making Blake out to be a bastard because you like Avon. Jenna-the-bitch falls into this category too.
   
8. The only interesting characters in TNG are Data and Q. Oh, and Ensign Ro.
   
9. The only interesting character in Voyager is the hologram Doctor.
   
10. I like romance as much as the next person, but just because one character is male and another character is female, doesn't mean that the only positive interaction they can have is romantic.
    

I'd say "Season Six of Stargate SG-1 does not exist in my personal canon", but I don't think that would be an *unpopular* opinion.

I hope that LJ-cut works, it's my first try at it.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

1. So yes. There are not enough atoms in the universe to write enough yeses to this statement.

2. I remember this came up once on Lysator. I appreciate your strong feeling, but I got very much the opposite message from that sequence.

3. Yepper. I watched the show because I liked the movie, and was stunned when the show turned out to be even better.

4. Avon is a much put-upon chap who needs to be respected and valued and let mostly alone; then he'll be happy and sexy.

5. Slashiness is occasionally inserted by the makers, more often now than it used to be.

6. Yes

7. Yes, except that Jenna occasionally shows flashes of bitchiness.

8. Eh. Deliver me from Trek.

9. Double Eh. Wanted to like Janeway and couldn't much.

10. True. And most of what other people find romantic leaves me cold, anyway. The Avengers was my idea of romantic. Whatever happened to subtle and refined?