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fandomsecrets2015-01-02 06:03 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2921 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2921 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Love Actually]
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06. [ SPOILERS for Legend of Korra ]
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08. [ WARNING for rape ]
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[The 100]
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Re: Dumb things you're judgy about
Especially, ahem, in the Dr Who fandom.
It drives me crazy. Especially since people who claim that writing is 'shitty' almost never analyse it to show what's supposed to be shitty about it, and those who do just seem to compare the story structure to some vague archetype and pronounce it a failure. (Is this a thing they're taught in school? Hero's journey, or something?) If they said, "I didn't like this; I was hoping that x would happen but y happened," I'd probably be sympathetic, but when they say, "Shitty," I just get annoyed.
Same with 'character development' -- "No character development" so often means "The character isn't doing what I want him/her to do." Why is 'character development' treated as the holy grail of story telling? It isn't the only way to drive a story forward; in some types of story, it's superfluous*. And if you're writing a long running TV series, and you need to keep the characters in character, you're almost bound to have them 'develop' and revert to type, 'develop' and revert to type... But is that really so unrealistic? In real life, people learn lessons all the time and then, after a while/under stress, go back to their comfort zone.
* Fanfic is generally about 'character development'; canon doesn't have to be.