Because LJ's comment cap is ridiculously low...

[brihana25]

Mr. Collins, if you're still around, here's my answer to your comment on my last post. I tried putting it under that comment, but it's 1000+ characters over the limit, and there's no way I could find to shorten it.

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[brihana25]

What this reminds me of is the Lee Goldberg drama a few years back (the one that inspired my icon).

The Male Privilege thing is an interesting perspective. Fandom is almost exclusively an arena for women, that's true, and most of us do our fandoming on LJ, and it's seemed lately that as soon as the fanboys get involved, it somehow legitimizes it... but we're still not allowed to play because we've never gotten paid for it. (Well, most of us haven't, at any rate. Not that some of us haven't tried...)

I don't know that it really applies here, though.

I could have said almost the exact same things about Ashley McConnell (the Jack/Janet shipper who thought one of the characters in S3 was "Captain Amanda Carter").

If anything (though I'm almost loathe to admit it), I think it might actually just be a case of pro writers vs. fan writers. I mean, just like I said above, about the football thing - the pro tie-in authors can study these shows for weeks, they can take their notes and memorize the speech patterns... but unless they "feel" the characters and the show the way we do, as a fan, they're going to come off as fake.

Am I saying my writing is better than his? No. Do I think my writing is even publishable? Obviously not, or it would have been by now. Do I think I know Jack and Daniel better than Ashley McConnell did? Yes. Do I think I know Spencer Reid, Aaron Hotchner and Logan Cale better than Mr. Collins does? Yes.

We watch these shows because we are fans. We are fans because we know/feel/identify with these characters more strongly than we do others.

But we don't have to be master chefs ourselves to know when the meatloaf is burnt, and we don't need the master chef's permission to tell him that he burned it.