Women, fiction, and authorial intent. And Battlestar Galactica.

[prozacpark]

Between the end of "Battlestar Galactica" and the recent Classica discussions, I’ve been finding myself discussing and thinking about authorial intent…in terms of romantic arcs, entertainment value, etc. I mentioned before how I had issues with Ron’s reading of Kara in the finale, but then Karen analyzed the thing for me in a way that worked, and I

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Re: My constructive post of the day!

[prozacpark]

I hate Frank Miller, too. In theory. The truth is that I've avoided him since finding out about him, but! I do need to read "All-star Batman and Robin." FOR THE GODDAMN BATMAN, if nothing else. We shall read and mock together?!

See, for me, if I love a character and find out the author meant for a negative connotation of the character - that's it! I dislike the character and less and less and begin to hate on the writer. That's just me, though.

Whereas I'm more likely to reject the author's reading and continue to love my Emma Frost. Of course, you can only take so much of the crappy writing before Emma *becomes* a crappy character, but that's why I'm avoiding comics right now and avoided them before when they were doing this to Kitty. When I was reading Joss' run, I was, as the WORLD KNOWS since I posted about it only every day, I was very worried for Emma, but I knew that if Joss turned her evil, I was going to drop the comics. I also stopped reading the actual comics until he was done with the run so to not let him affect my Emma love.

Why should I let someone with a stupid Madonna/Whore complex get in the way of my Emma love? It would feel a bit like letting him win. Like he did with Cordelia and successfully did turn me into someone who couldn't stand Cordelia towards the end. And that still makes me so angry.

And we're all bitter.

Re: My constructive post of the day!

[distractedone]

PS...

Why should I let someone with a stupid Madonna/Whore complex get in the way of my Emma love? It would feel a bit like letting him win. Like he did with Cordelia and successfully did turn me into someone who couldn't stand Cordelia towards the end. And that still makes me so angry.

What exactly is a Madonna/Whore complex? I MUST KNOW!

Also, I think comic canon is completely different from actual literature (yes, I just sliced comic books from literature, but I didn't mean to). So, a writer's intentions in literature are much different than a writer's intentions in comics, because comic interpretation is always changing because of the never-ending cycle of writers.