A failure to communicate...
I've been chatting on BF lately about the comics and I've come to notice a big difference is in the way I look at things vs how others do, especially newer fans. I've noticed the same thing when I was on tumblr. It seems to be based on just how important headcanons are and their worth to the story. I just don't like being asked to fill in gaps in characterizations and find it inexcusably lazy. I have a lot less of an issue doing it for plot unless there is blatant contradiction. The characters are why I'm there and when they lose tangibility, the story is gone.
I can enjoy Lost without having every little bit about The Island explained because there aren't very many character gaps. When they change, it's explained and shown why the changed. It was the same as with Buffy the show. The plotlines were typically a mess, but the character movements were usually well done and it was those character moments that made the show what it was. The comics on the other hand, all I see are gaps and when you talk about it, you're told to fill it in yourself. Why? I'm not going to write the story for the author. If you're going to do that, why even bother attempting to discuss it? You're never going to agree, just as an optimist isn't going to convince a pessimist the glass is half full.
It reminds me of those blogs on tumblr where certain blogs claim this character has this disorder and It's Canon or is gay or bi or whatever when there is no suggestion other than a joke or a vaguely relevant theme. Giles is bisexual because he and Ethan did magic together and magic is a metaphor for sex. It's blatant and obvious! This seems to work for people and I'm staring at the screen like it's written in another language. Magic wasn't always a metaphor for sex, just as fighting wasn't. Other than a joke between Anya and Will in S7, that metaphor was exclusive to W/T.
I don't know. Maybe I'm just too old, jaded and part of the No Fun Allowed team. I'm not going to conjure up reasons as to why a character established to know this or that suddenly doesn't or shown to have this ideal/morality then they suddenly acts opposite of that.
I can enjoy Lost without having every little bit about The Island explained because there aren't very many character gaps. When they change, it's explained and shown why the changed. It was the same as with Buffy the show. The plotlines were typically a mess, but the character movements were usually well done and it was those character moments that made the show what it was. The comics on the other hand, all I see are gaps and when you talk about it, you're told to fill it in yourself. Why? I'm not going to write the story for the author. If you're going to do that, why even bother attempting to discuss it? You're never going to agree, just as an optimist isn't going to convince a pessimist the glass is half full.
It reminds me of those blogs on tumblr where certain blogs claim this character has this disorder and It's Canon or is gay or bi or whatever when there is no suggestion other than a joke or a vaguely relevant theme. Giles is bisexual because he and Ethan did magic together and magic is a metaphor for sex. It's blatant and obvious! This seems to work for people and I'm staring at the screen like it's written in another language. Magic wasn't always a metaphor for sex, just as fighting wasn't. Other than a joke between Anya and Will in S7, that metaphor was exclusive to W/T.
I don't know. Maybe I'm just too old, jaded and part of the No Fun Allowed team. I'm not going to conjure up reasons as to why a character established to know this or that suddenly doesn't or shown to have this ideal/morality then they suddenly acts opposite of that.