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daysofseptember

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Jan 07, 2015 21:47

I have Opinions about how romance is portrayed in fiction, and that is the only reason why I never watched Avatar: The Last Airbender. Seriously, that's it: the way the internet kept handling their ship wars made me 110% positive that the series would drive me up the wall in the worst way ( Read more... )

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silverthunder January 9 2015, 00:43:21 UTC

Obviously it's totally your choice whether or not to watch Last Airbender, but I will say that the romance was a really small part of the overall plot, and the series itself is pretty awesome imo. It is the nature of fandom to obsess over ships more than anything else, and the ship wars over that series were so unbelievably out of proportion with what was actually portrayed in the show that it was almost funny. Not saying you wouldn't be annoyed with the romance in the series (I don't know one way or another), but I still think it'd be worth watching despite it. There was so much else going on.

Anyway! Not trying to pressure you into doing something you don't want to, but I thought I'd throw in a good word anyway. ;)

I have actually not gotten further than halfway through the first season of Korra, but it is on my to-do list, especially now that the series is over (and the ending sounds awesome).

daysofseptember January 10 2015, 23:21:06 UTC

Yeah, the sad part? I KNOW. I've long since understood that AtlA is good stuff, but really stupid reasons kept me from looking it up. Watching Korra, which by all means gets slammed for being not-as-good, should be reason enough to look it up, because Korra's got a lot of really good things going on.

Rambling comment that reveals my stupidity is coming spherehunter January 13 2015, 18:24:49 UTC

Romance in fiction, interesting ( ... )

More of the rambling comment that reveals my stupidity is coming spherehunter January 13 2015, 18:25:31 UTC

Some thoughts ( ... )

:Re: More of the rambling comment that reveals my stupidity is coming daysofseptember January 18 2015, 00:54:20 UTC

(I apologize for how long it took me to sit Down and do this properly - busy week was busy. I also apologize beforehand for the random Capitals here; it seems my browser has some kind of insane autocorrect ( ... )

Re: More of the rambling comment that reveals my stupidity is coming daysofseptember January 18 2015, 01:43:47 UTC

So it's kind of a two-edged sword: I DO think it'd be awesome to see canon Sherlock/John, but I also fear that they'd have to spend a lot of screentime just spoonfeeding the audience the REASON for making it canon. That would inevitably demand a change of focus, as you put it, for at least one episode, which WOULD probably pull in the critics in droves because changing the genre = bad writing.

Moving on to MY issues With romance in fiction, well... it's mostly that I'm tired of how it's so goddamn obligatory. It seems so often that you can't tell a story without introducing romance at some point, and in a lot of stories and in children's stories in particular (and a lot of what I watch IS children's stories), it's blatantly obvious when a character, frequently female, exists solely for the hero to fall in love With - and even if they DO have another purpose in the plot, they usually end up getting together With the hero anyway because he was a boy she was a girl cannot make it any more obvious and that mindset gets frustrating to ( ... )

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