Let's Talk January: Conflicting Headcanon!
Meicdon13 asked about when fans' head canon disagrees with mine. I'm a real fan of "Live and let live" when it comes to fannish readings of canon, but I admit sometimes it can put me to the test. Recently I've been trying my hand at making gifsets, particularly of the 1980s Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett. The funny thing is I'll make gifsets of
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I also enjoy when there are different adaptions for the same original canon material, like we have now with Sherlock, the RDJ movies and Elementary; all of them going different routes and interpreting things differently. Fandom inevitably starts arguing for their favorites, but I usually just stay out of it and have fun with whatever I like and ignore what I don't. :P
I read both scenes in the gifs in the way you're reading them. But it's even easier to argue about snap shots like gifs when much of the context is missing.
Because of this, I have come to find it relatively easy to accept alternative versions of comic book characters I love: they've just contructed their version of the character from a different assortment of canon than I have.
This is so easy to do in comic book fandoms, where the way you've encountered the characters and the stories you've read for them will shape your view of them. It's what makes editorial stances so hard to bear sometimes. *chuckles*
I also hate Bruce written as being abusive towards any of the kids he's taken in. I can see them having disagreements and him being uncomfortably stubborn and stern sometimes, but never ever as someone who would hurt a kid he's responsible for.
If they write them off or make them the villain, I can ignore them. If they think they're awful but still put them into the pairing with the other character I love...well, that's back-button-and-brain-bleach time, usually followed by ranting at my long-suffering husband for a while.
It's always good to have someone to rant at when this happens. It's the one thing I can't stand either.
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*grin* Absolutely! I love that there's so much to choose from, and I can totally see reasons for any of them being someone's favorites...as long as they let other people have their favorites as well...
Tumblr is so weird because you lose SO much context. I just saw that image of "Batman" yelling "I am a model of mental health!" go by AGAIN and as usual I thought "Should I reblog to tell people that's actually Hugo Strange dressed up as Batman?...Nah, people want to believe it's Bruce and so they generally will... *sigh*"
I also hate Bruce written as being abusive towards any of the kids he's taken in. I can see them having disagreements and him being uncomfortably stubborn and stern sometimes, but never ever as someone who would hurt a kid he's responsible for.
Like eve_K points out above, some of that also depends on how you define "abusive"! I've seen people saying Batman's being awful in situations where I think he's being at worst overly harsh and sometimes just plain reasonable...
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Yeah, although that's something I saw happening on paces like facebook even before that. Images and snap shots like these are just so easy to misunderstand, especially when many of the people who do the reblogging and ranting right out say they never read that part of canon, never saw the full episode etc. And like you say some people just want to believe what they want to believe, so it's probably best not to engage.
Like eve_k points out above, some of that also depends on how you define "abusive"!
Of course, it does, and our definitions probably tie back into our own experiences and views in general. So I really won't argue against the interpretation, because I understand that some people just interpret some scenes very differently than I do. That's okay for me, although I will click back out of the fic/post/etc. (I'm always a bit sad when canon tries to all out contradict me though. ;P)
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