Oh, Scott Lynch, have I ever told you you are my hero? Mocking rebuttals of awesome away!
Our gayness and our gilt are all besmirch'd...
And the follow up:
The funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
edited 9th Sep '11 12:48:27 AM by MildGuy
Reading some samples from that...ugh. After all this time, Card's greatest flaw - a tendency to fall into a Featureless Plane of Disembodied Dialogue - has gotten even worse. *
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
Sorry about that. I thought it was pretty clear that I was referring to Card's story.
Actually, now that I've calmed down... could this possibly be as straightforward as it seems? He's written "Hamlet" (don't really want to use that name, as he seems to have none of the characteristics of Shakespeare's character) as a Marty Stu who possesses absolute certainty about everything, up to and including the life after death. Then, not-Hamlet goes to hell. Doesn't that invalidate his perfect certainty on moral and metaphysical matters? Or is Card really obtuse enough to think that he can send his hero to Incest Buggery Hell and still have the readers accept him as morally right?
I almost want to read it now to find out, but I'd probably regret it.
edited 10th Sep '11 4:40:03 AM by DoktorvonEurotrash
Yup, that thing was pretty bad.
Anyway, I just found that I'm not on SA's Official List of Tropers(TM)![1]
What a bunch of tasteless douchebags![2]
1. In which they say that annebeeche(who I deeply respected while she was here)was the one who would 'tell tropers what horrible people they were whenever one of them had a terrible opinion (read: all the time)'. Ignoring all the times annebeeche was actually part of the MAJORITY opinion in the thread! And the thread on Orson Scott Card's Hamlet, which was highly CRITICAL and specifically called it 'offensive' and 'hideous'!
2. I'll enjoy The Triumphant's literary snobbery(in which he will no doubt accuse me of being a 'weaboo aspie' and will point to his vast knowledge of classic literature as proof of his obvious superiority) and the rest of them hideously overreacting to this, just as they do to all hyperbole and facetiousness.
edited 28th Jan '12 1:23:13 PM by ElderAtropos

See here
. Or more specifically, his moralizing, anti-gay Hamlet.
Oh no Orson Scott Card, no.
I admit this is Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch from me, and as the article notes, it's a reprint rather than a new work, but it still sounds pretty bad.
Also, for the sake of fairness, I will note that the idea that Hamlet's father could have been a deceptive evil spirit was definitely considered by the Elizabethan audience and is mentioned in the play, so in itself, that element isn't problematic. Everything else though...
edited 8th Sep '11 12:15:10 PM by Jordan
Hodor