Well, in all fairness, bashing stuff can be a lot of fun. I've been known to rent really bad cheesy action/horror flicks for the sole purpose of armchair quarterbacking and generally making fun of the characters' lack of survival skills and the plot's lack of scientific credibility. Don't ask me why this is fun, it just is.
Bashing stuff on forums devoted to said stuff, though, seems sorta petty and childish. I also get the idea (partly from our IM conversation of the other night) that you don't mean the above-described sorta throwing-popcorn-at-the-screen bashing, but actual vitriolic hatred type bashing. And that I don't get. When I genuinely can't stand something, I just avoid it. For example, romantic comedies. I don't rent romantic comedies and mock them, though there's often much to mock, 'cause I really genuinely just despise them. It wouldn't be fun.
So .. yeah, I dunno. Maybe the readers in question just really overidentified with the characters and felt betrayed when the plot went a way they didn't like. (Though that, IMO, is what fanfic is for - a sort of "better to light a candle than curse the darkness" approach to canon developments you dislike).
But it's not fun bashing, it's just trying to tear down everything to do with the series. When a simple question about Micah degenerates into people trying to figure out the most graphic way to kill him, it's not even worth my time anymore.
Maybe the readers in question just really overidentified with the characters and felt betrayed when the plot went a way they didn't like.
The books changed in NiC, really. That was in 2001. Frankly, it's time to move on.
Bashing stuff on forums devoted to said stuff, though, seems sorta petty and childish. I also get the idea (partly from our IM conversation of the other night) that you don't mean the above-described sorta throwing-popcorn-at-the-screen bashing, but actual vitriolic hatred type bashing. And that I don't get. When I genuinely can't stand something, I just avoid it. For example, romantic comedies. I don't rent romantic comedies and mock them, though there's often much to mock, 'cause I really genuinely just despise them. It wouldn't be fun.
So .. yeah, I dunno. Maybe the readers in question just really overidentified with the characters and felt betrayed when the plot went a way they didn't like. (Though that, IMO, is what fanfic is for - a sort of "better to light a candle than curse the darkness" approach to canon developments you dislike).
-Sonya
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Maybe the readers in question just really overidentified with the characters and felt betrayed when the plot went a way they didn't like.
The books changed in NiC, really. That was in 2001. Frankly, it's time to move on.
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