Comments | elizabeth_hoot: some thoughts on retroactive characterization + memes (day 17)

elizabeth_hoot

some thoughts on retroactive characterization + memes (day 17)

Aug 14, 2011 13:18

#that moment when you troll your entire English class
#what do you mean The Monk isn't about constitutional monarchy
#it COULD BE
( more random status updates )

series: thirty days of fanfic, character: obi-wan kenobi, fandom: fandom, fandom: austen, rl, genre: meta, character: anakin skywalker, asexuality, genre: thirty days, meme, religion, fandom: star wars, character: fitzwilliam darcy, series: thirty days of asexuality

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ladyhadhafang August 15 2011, 20:56:53 UTC

Fanfic_rants are made out of assholes anyway -- asshole-covered assholes with asshole filling. (Which would, um, be an insult to the asshole community, really) Personally, I just ignore them. (Same with scans_daily, really)

And I agree with you regarding titles, so much.

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elizabeth_hoot August 16 2011, 16:16:56 UTC

Heeeeeh, meta-ing is both helpful and frustrating when it comes to writing. It's helped clarify my ideas so I don't have to yank my hair out over characterization, but it also gives me less leeway -- I can't write characters in a way that I don't actually see them. (This is why I almost never write Padmé.)

Well, I'm in the original-ideas-for-the-plot boat, so I have an advantage there, I think (I didn't have to make up the plot! ...exactly). I never had any doubt that he loved Luke c. ESB (dude, he lied to Palpatine's face! and the longing when he called for him telepathically was ... yeah), but the exact form it takes? Ehhh.

Interesting and infuriating is an excellent description, heh.

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elizabeth_hoot August 16 2011, 22:01:00 UTC

Heh, yeah. And when he's all "how is this possible???" even though he clearly knows who Luke is (and "he's just a boy!" <3 <3) it's just ... right, you can see the redemptive arc coming a mile off.

but if ROTJ never existed we would never have heard Luke SAY that so, does that make it ESB canon or ROTJ canon? LOL

Yes! This was the specific issue I had when I was outlining Revenge, actually.

I suppose you can read a lot into the way Luke calls out to Vader telepathically too.

Ahahaha, yeah. That moment when he just has that befuddled Father I'm like "it's just...SOMEONE LEFT THE ONIONS OUT, OKAY?" So there's the foundation for some kind of something afterwards, it just got rather shortchanged by canon. *sadface*