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Speedchesser Since: Feb, 2012
2022-07-12 20:29:57

As written, I actually don't think it's particularly unclear or complainy. The fanfic writer thought the original work suffered from Protagonist-Centered Morality, so they flipped the roles around to make a point. The fanfic portrays James and Meowth as Gaston-style egotistical wannabes, so the description of them is just their objective character traits as portrayed by the work itself. Calling the attempt a failure could be YMMV, but it could just be an unclear way of saying that the work doesn't meet the objective criteria for a deconstruction.

Either way, I think the mentions of failure are the big problem. Either the work isn't a deconstruction and shouldn't be listed at all, or it is and shouldn't be called a failure. Personally, I'd go for the first option, since the fic completely flips things around. Inversions aren't deconstructions.

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