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frolicndetour

Kevin Grazier Can Blow Me

Jul 19, 2009 15:35

Found out about this article via greycoupon.

Short version for those who don't want to click: Bawww! Fans hated the finale. That's cuz they just didn't GET it. They didn't get it cuz they're GURLZ SHIPPERS ( Read more... )

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beccatoria July 19 2009, 20:47:12 UTC

Oh hell, I just went and read it.

1) I hate it when people defend the finale with the word "ambiguity". It has become my pet hate.

2) I am oddly irked by the way he calls the ships Lee/Kara and Sam/Kara. Maybe it's a SciFi board thing, but I've always seen it with Kara's name first and I dunno. I'd sure I'm being ridiculously nitpicky but just GAH. It really bugged me for some reason, like it makes he extra specially sexist. AND HE HAS STUPID BOY COOTIES.

3) That thing he leads with? About people liking it when they think they've had to think but hate it when they really have to think? Is like (and I apologise to anyone reading this who liked the finale; I understand this is a matter of pure opinion) the exact the exact reverse of what I want to level at the finale, which I feel was a lot of stuff pretending to be deep and thoughtful that falls apart on any deeper examination?

In conclusion, Kevin Grazier is smelly, throw rocks at him.

frolicndetour July 19 2009, 20:59:26 UTC

I am oddly irked by the way he calls the ships Lee/Kara and Sam/Kara. Maybe it's a SciFi board thing, but I've always seen it with Kara's name first and I dunno. I'd sure I'm being ridiculously nitpicky but just GAH. It really bugged me for some reason, like it makes he extra specially sexist. AND HE HAS STUPID BOY COOTIES.

I'm running out the door for a bit, but I wanted to say THANK YOU for noticing that too. It's NOT a sci-fi board thing, both the shipper threads list Kara first. It seems to go strictly by alphabetical order there. And also Kara tops, it's canon, folks. ;) I'm glad I'm not the only one bugged by that. STUPID BOY COOTIES.

lyssie July 19 2009, 21:20:19 UTC

2. I think some of that may just be the alphabeticalness. Me, I always put women first, 'cause I'm an evil feminist.

beccatoria July 19 2009, 22:04:48 UTC

It probably is the alphabeticalness, but then again:

John/Aeryn, Lee/Laura, D'argo/Chiana, John/Cameron.

In some instances, especially with more minor characters shipped with major characters, it's just putting the more major character first (i.e. Scully/Krycek or Lee/Dee) but other times, you just...end up with a fandom-wide term which isn't alphabetical.

The evil feminist in me frequently suspects subconscious shenanigans.

Kara was just so forceful SUBCONSCIOUS SEXISM COULD NOT CONTAIN HER. You know, until it met Kevin Grazier. :p

Mainly I just like the idea it's because we're all evil feminists that her name got put on the front. You know, if shipping is such a pasttime for silly girlz and all.

lyssie July 19 2009, 22:27:19 UTC

I had someone explain to me once that they always did it the male first, though I'm hazy on whether it was personal preference or because the men had the lion's share of the narrative.

nicole_anell July 19 2009, 21:49:22 UTC

1. That bugs me too. Some of the worst things in the finale were the *least* ambiguous.

beccatoria July 19 2009, 22:13:31 UTC

Yes! Because you know, if you liked that the resolution to a lot of plots was "God did it," and think that it was well-foreshadowed to end in this particular way, with this particular manner of divine intervention, then that's fine. But don't tell me it was also ambiguous! "God did it!" is like the least ambiguous thing ever. People seem to be confusing it with, "It was hinted this inexplicable event might have been down to a higher power ( ... )

frolicndetour July 20 2009, 02:04:57 UTC

Okay, I was going to add more, but it's basically just "Amen!"

That thing he leads with? About people liking it when they think they've had to think but hate it when they really have to think? Is like (and I apologise to anyone reading this who liked the finale; I understand this is a matter of pure opinion) the exact the exact reverse of what I want to level at the finale, which I feel was a lot of stuff pretending to be deep and thoughtful that falls apart on any deeper examination?

Oh god, that had me enraged even before I read the rest of it. Because, what you said exactly, it was pseudo-profundity all the way. But also... even if I LOVED the finale, I think I'd find that smugness and arrogance insufferable anyway. Arrogance or incompetence people, pick one or the other. ;p

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