Sherlock Holmes and Bond would make a singularly terrible team! :)
I've seen this happen way too often, in everything from shipfic, to gen, to meta, to just prevailing attitudes about characters. Dick is the pretty boy. Tim is the obsessive, super-competent, Batman in training. Not to say that there aren't fans who appreciate all of Dick's talents and qualities, but what you've outlined here is all too common. Sometimes I wonder if it's (in addition to your excellent points), you know, bad writing and bad reading - a need to make one character worse, so your favourite is better, because you as a writer/reader can't juggle the awesome?
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Date: 2010-01-08 02:42 am (UTC)I've seen this happen way too often, in everything from shipfic, to gen, to meta, to just prevailing attitudes about characters. Dick is the pretty boy. Tim is the obsessive, super-competent, Batman in training. Not to say that there aren't fans who appreciate all of Dick's talents and qualities, but what you've outlined here is all too common. Sometimes I wonder if it's (in addition to your excellent points), you know, bad writing and bad reading - a need to make one character worse, so your favourite is better, because you as a writer/reader can't juggle the awesome?