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kriadydragon) wrote2011-12-19 10:51 pm
kriadydragon) wrote2011-12-19 10:51 pm
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On Character Bashing in Reviews
Has anyone ever received a review that bashed your favorite character? Or if not bashed wasn't particularly kind to your favorite character? Did you come to the character's defense? Ignore the bashing? Not say anything at all?
There's this reviewer over on FF.net who I find both amusing an exasperating for this reason. Their favoritism is painfully obvious. They don't just come to their favorite character's defense, they practically woobify him, while at the same time... not bashing the other character per se... but not really saying too many nice things about them, either. What gets me is that they'll do this on stories that are obviously other-character centric, by other-character fans. But it won't be "poor other-character" it's always "poor favorite character, can't other-character see what they're doing to fave character?" Yes, I know this isn't new or anything, I've just never seen it done so much by a single reviewer, and it's made me curious as to what the authors (specifically the authors of other-character centric stories) have to say in response (but because it's FF.net, I don't know).
I recall an SGA story I did - I'm thinking it might have been Castles in the Sky - where someone reprimanded Carson rather harshly in their review and I was really uncomfortable about it (I'm pretty sure I, politely, came to Carson's defense. In fact I would be quite surprised if I didn't considering how defensive I can be, but I can't be sure since it was on FF.net). I also recall reading a story by an obvious McKay fan and a reviewer who kept bashing McKay. And I mean really putting him down. I was surprised by this since I thought it was obvious who the favorite character in the story was, but apparently it wasn't obvious enough for this person.
There's this reviewer over on FF.net who I find both amusing an exasperating for this reason. Their favoritism is painfully obvious. They don't just come to their favorite character's defense, they practically woobify him, while at the same time... not bashing the other character per se... but not really saying too many nice things about them, either. What gets me is that they'll do this on stories that are obviously other-character centric, by other-character fans. But it won't be "poor other-character" it's always "poor favorite character, can't other-character see what they're doing to fave character?" Yes, I know this isn't new or anything, I've just never seen it done so much by a single reviewer, and it's made me curious as to what the authors (specifically the authors of other-character centric stories) have to say in response (but because it's FF.net, I don't know).
I recall an SGA story I did - I'm thinking it might have been Castles in the Sky - where someone reprimanded Carson rather harshly in their review and I was really uncomfortable about it (I'm pretty sure I, politely, came to Carson's defense. In fact I would be quite surprised if I didn't considering how defensive I can be, but I can't be sure since it was on FF.net). I also recall reading a story by an obvious McKay fan and a reviewer who kept bashing McKay. And I mean really putting him down. I was surprised by this since I thought it was obvious who the favorite character in the story was, but apparently it wasn't obvious enough for this person.
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I've seen it before and often wonder what color the sky is in that person's reality. On whether or not I would come to the character's defense depends on how psychotic this person seems, because responding won't make any difference. If they think they may respond like a rational adult, then yes, I would try.
There are too many loons on the internet nowadays...
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I often wonder how I would respond to this person if they ever went on the defensive with one of my stories. Knee-jerk wise I'd want to call them out on their obvious favoritism and ask why they're reading a story centered on this other character. Polite-wise... I'm not sure. Thank them for commenting, I suppose, but were they to keep at it I might end up having to get assertive.
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