I'm leaving this thread open for now, but it's already on probation, because the conversation it engenders could be interesting and mature, or it could tip over into bitching really easily.
So you can't say you weren't warned.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.I apologize. I don't want to have a thread of bitching about detractors OR authors/specific canons, but rather asking if other people have noticed this.
edited 23rd Nov '14 5:15:12 PM by JewelyJ
As someone who is a raving fan of Ridley Scott's Alien, and doesn't care much for the timeline that followed (including Cameron's Aliens), as well as ignoring anything that followed Terminator 2, I can see where some folks are coming from. Of course that doesn't excuse the baffling arrogance some fans put on display.
Fear the cinnamon sugar swirl. By the Gods, fear it, Laurence.Yeah this is coming from someone who hated the series finale of their show, (for its poor writing and bad characterization). So I understand not liking a thing.
But being mad about the author making choices with their own characters is another thing entirely. The only way I can understand that point of view is if the fan is not a writer.
edited 23rd Nov '14 7:52:43 PM by JewelyJ
There is not liking how a series progresses. That's totally fine.
There is demanding that the author change things and make it so that their way is the way, and harassing them about it, and constantly stirring the pot with people about it, and etc...that ain't cool, yo.
Insert witty 'n clever quip here.I've seen this a lot from the bronies, with the idea that the show is meant for and should be written entirely for them and not for the actual target demographic.
"Yup. That tasted purple."People also love to use hyperbole when the situation doesn't call for it or for comic effect.
Yes, the Bat Credit Card was mind-bendingly idiotic. No, it did not "rape your childhood"note
edited 24th Nov '14 4:59:19 AM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der ParteiThis entitlement doesn't count fans that actually pay for the book to be published (I.E, publishers), right?
Warning: This poster is known to the state of California to cause cancer. Cancer may not be available in your country.I don't think so. I'm really just talking about fans or people who pick up and read a book or watch a show, get into it and then decide that the writer is writing just for them.
Although I have to say as a writer who has a plan in mind for their work already, I wouldn't be happy if my publisher started telling me I had to make my story go this way.
edited 24th Nov '14 1:06:50 PM by JewelyJ
Lately through my experiences in fandom, I've started to feel like some fans feel (and act)entitled to the canon going their way.
Like I remember a conversation about Pottermore and the extra writing bits where someone claimed that it was "pathetic" that JKR was trying to "control interpretation" merely by sharing tidbits about the world.
And I saw a writing argument with someone claiming that a 'timeskip'/sequel is "pretentious" because it "assumes that I can't imagine what happens next myself". I was just sorta like what the hell? Did it ever occur to them that maybe they author is writing more because they want to continue the story and feel it isn't done yet? I mean yeah, it all depends on how it's done.
But that sorta of reasoning just screams "it's all about ME and MY reading".
Anybody else ever feel like this
(note I don't believe it's entitlement to disagree with the author or dislike a poorly done epilogue. But if you hate it for the sheer reason that you believe the author is insulting you by assuming you can't make up an ending yourself? That's ...pretty entitled. and egotistical.)
edited 23rd Nov '14 5:10:45 PM by JewelyJ