Haha, that sounds so epic! :D "Back in the times of Snape/Sirius fan wars, we huddled together in a lone corner of the galaxy..."
Hmmm, I find this post a little bit confusing, but I know from days of yore about your pro-Draco anti-JKR-morality thing which I didn't really understand at first, but am growing to, I think. I guess it all depends on where you draw the line. I have problems with the HP books but the 'depiction of Slytherins' (to use an example) isn't necessarily one of them, at least not in an 'ethical' sense. I don't expect a super-complex treatment of the Slytherins, although that would be very nice. But then, on the other hand, if the books & JKR through interviews gave me some kind of impression like, "domestic abuse is fun!" then I might get upset.
I like the point that Snape's controversy is all in the text, while Draco's is without.
Hmmm...again I feel like saying, what if you are, say, a Wormtail fan? Surely you wouldn't expect any acknowledgement or anything for the character, or to get anything more than an "ew! icky!" reaction out of most fans. IMO that's a pretty deliberate decision to warp how the author wants you to perceive something (esp if movie!Peter is any indication - he was so three-dimensional, right?). So I wouldn't fault anyone who ranted on about how Peter was ev0l and deserved to die messily, nor would I consider it an implicitly moral judgement as opposed to a fictional one - what you think should happen, vs what you think will happen, perhaps?
Alas, don't know if I'm even making any sense! So will run away. *runs*
Oh, but this?
Books that are perfect generally don't, imo, create big fandoms because there's nothing for fans to do but nod and say, "Well done."
Fandom gets interesting when there's tension between the work and the reader.
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Date: 2004-12-01 02:12 am (UTC)Haha, that sounds so epic! :D "Back in the times of Snape/Sirius fan wars, we huddled together in a lone corner of the galaxy..."
Hmmm, I find this post a little bit confusing, but I know from days of yore about your pro-Draco anti-JKR-morality thing which I didn't really understand at first, but am growing to, I think. I guess it all depends on where you draw the line. I have problems with the HP books but the 'depiction of Slytherins' (to use an example) isn't necessarily one of them, at least not in an 'ethical' sense. I don't expect a super-complex treatment of the Slytherins, although that would be very nice. But then, on the other hand, if the books & JKR through interviews gave me some kind of impression like, "domestic abuse is fun!" then I might get upset.
I like the point that Snape's controversy is all in the text, while Draco's is without.
Hmmm...again I feel like saying, what if you are, say, a Wormtail fan? Surely you wouldn't expect any acknowledgement or anything for the character, or to get anything more than an "ew! icky!" reaction out of most fans. IMO that's a pretty deliberate decision to warp how the author wants you to perceive something (esp if movie!Peter is any indication - he was so three-dimensional, right?). So I wouldn't fault anyone who ranted on about how Peter was ev0l and deserved to die messily, nor would I consider it an implicitly moral judgement as opposed to a fictional one - what you think should happen, vs what you think will happen, perhaps?
Alas, don't know if I'm even making any sense! So will run away. *runs*
Oh, but this?
Books that are perfect generally don't, imo, create big fandoms because there's nothing for fans to do but nod and say, "Well done."
Fandom gets interesting when there's tension between the work and the reader.
Is so true, and a very nice summation. :D