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Don't you hate it when you're reading a story and you find yourself becoming increasingly agitated by some minor plot point or characterization that, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't matter in the least bit. And yet you can't let it go!
I'm reading this nice little fanfic that I really want to enjoy, and I'm trying to enjoy it, I really am. But I'm having this issue with it that I can't seem to shake. In the story, the author has one of the character's smoking (which the canon character doesn't do, but that's not the issue). Now, I'm generally not a fan of characters who smoke (because all I can think about is how they're going to die of lung or throat cancer) but my issue isn't so much with the character smoking as it is with how the other characters handle his smoking. That is, they completely ignore it. And the reason this bothers me is because the other characters are always so dang worried about smoking character's well-being - his physical health, his mental health. Heck, smoker even lives with a friggin' physician! And no one even attempts to so much as hint at the idea of this character - who they worry so much about - quitting smoking.
Which... I suppose I can kind, sort of understand why, since said character's angst meter is through the roof and the last thing he needs is to be pressured or hounded. But, still... it's actually weirding me out that the other characters aren't saying anything. Seriously, it's starting to become like an itch that can't be scratched with me, and it's making it very difficult to enjoy the story. It's like I can't wrap my head around the other characters caring so much about smoker, and yet they say absolutely nothing about his smoking.
*Shrugs* I don't know. Maybe something was said and I missed it, but the thing is - and maybe this is just me - I totally see the characters as being the type to gently persuade their friend who they care heaps about into quitting smoking, and it's like my brain can't compute the characters saying nothing at all about the matter. And I'm sure the author probably views the matter in a different light and totally sees the other characters as not wanting to add what they think is unnecessary pressure on their friend. But, crap, it won't stop bugging me! (In fact I'm almost tempted to say something about it, but managed to refrain from doing so thus far).
I may have to just stop reading it, or wait until the author finishes it. I am seriously surprised by how much this has been increasingly bothering me. It's a trilogy, and the more I read, the more the characters say nothing about the smoking, the more the entire thing makes me twitch.
As I said - like an itch that can't be scratched.
I'm reading this nice little fanfic that I really want to enjoy, and I'm trying to enjoy it, I really am. But I'm having this issue with it that I can't seem to shake. In the story, the author has one of the character's smoking (which the canon character doesn't do, but that's not the issue). Now, I'm generally not a fan of characters who smoke (because all I can think about is how they're going to die of lung or throat cancer) but my issue isn't so much with the character smoking as it is with how the other characters handle his smoking. That is, they completely ignore it. And the reason this bothers me is because the other characters are always so dang worried about smoking character's well-being - his physical health, his mental health. Heck, smoker even lives with a friggin' physician! And no one even attempts to so much as hint at the idea of this character - who they worry so much about - quitting smoking.
Which... I suppose I can kind, sort of understand why, since said character's angst meter is through the roof and the last thing he needs is to be pressured or hounded. But, still... it's actually weirding me out that the other characters aren't saying anything. Seriously, it's starting to become like an itch that can't be scratched with me, and it's making it very difficult to enjoy the story. It's like I can't wrap my head around the other characters caring so much about smoker, and yet they say absolutely nothing about his smoking.
*Shrugs* I don't know. Maybe something was said and I missed it, but the thing is - and maybe this is just me - I totally see the characters as being the type to gently persuade their friend who they care heaps about into quitting smoking, and it's like my brain can't compute the characters saying nothing at all about the matter. And I'm sure the author probably views the matter in a different light and totally sees the other characters as not wanting to add what they think is unnecessary pressure on their friend. But, crap, it won't stop bugging me! (In fact I'm almost tempted to say something about it, but managed to refrain from doing so thus far).
I may have to just stop reading it, or wait until the author finishes it. I am seriously surprised by how much this has been increasingly bothering me. It's a trilogy, and the more I read, the more the characters say nothing about the smoking, the more the entire thing makes me twitch.
As I said - like an itch that can't be scratched.
