Date: Saturday, January 26th, 2013 03:44 pm (UTC)From:nobleplatypus
Regarding my beef with Moffat, it's less about screwy character dynamics. He HAS totally written that, but my reaction was less "this is bad writing" and more "this is too painfully similar to actual terrible relationships I've witnessed for me to ship this." Now, whether he knows that he's written something screwy is another matter, and part of my concern (and a good chunk of the fandom's concern) is that, like Smeyer, he actually thinks that what he's writing is an excellent romance and that the haters don't understaaaand.
Plus, there's the fact that he only really seems to have one female character in his head, so every female character he writes is just a subtle variation on a theme. And that the 'theme' contains some problematic, sexist bullcrap that he refuses to acknowledge. And that he's so interested in maintaining a certain status quo re: his characters that he doesn't actually allow them to grow, or to be realistically affected by the shit they go through. I could really go on about this all day.
A lot of fans are WAY too insecure, as you said. One of my younger cousins had a friend snap at her because she'd posted something gently critical of One Direction. "It might be funny to you guys, but it isn't funny to any Directioners who read this!" And I probably should have stayed out of it, but I was indignant enough on my cousin's behalf to be like, "Actually, you know what's REALLY funny? The notion that an artist should be exempt from criticism because their fandom can't handle it."
Mindless flaming isn't cool, but no one should feel compelled to censor their legitimate criticisms because it might hurt the fee-fees of someone too hypersensitive to even be on the internet in the first place.
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Date: Saturday, January 26th, 2013 03:44 pm (UTC)From:Plus, there's the fact that he only really seems to have one female character in his head, so every female character he writes is just a subtle variation on a theme. And that the 'theme' contains some problematic, sexist bullcrap that he refuses to acknowledge. And that he's so interested in maintaining a certain status quo re: his characters that he doesn't actually allow them to grow, or to be realistically affected by the shit they go through. I could really go on about this all day.
A lot of fans are WAY too insecure, as you said. One of my younger cousins had a friend snap at her because she'd posted something gently critical of One Direction. "It might be funny to you guys, but it isn't funny to any Directioners who read this!" And I probably should have stayed out of it, but I was indignant enough on my cousin's behalf to be like, "Actually, you know what's REALLY funny? The notion that an artist should be exempt from criticism because their fandom can't handle it."
Mindless flaming isn't cool, but no one should feel compelled to censor their legitimate criticisms because it might hurt the fee-fees of someone too hypersensitive to even be on the internet in the first place.