Friending Meme XVI

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F!S Friending Meme XVI

Anon wanted this, so here it is!

Name @ LJ/DW/tumblr/etc: (if applicable)
Name/Handle:
Age/Location:
Fandoms:
What in fandom interests me:
What in fandom does NOT interest me:
Major Non-fandom Interests:
My LJ/DW/tumblr/etc Contains Mostly:
Other: (If you want to link pictures or something, do it here)

Everything is 100% optional, of course.

Rules: No porn, guro gifs, auto-looping/playing embeds, etc. To avoid excessive scrolling, if you're going to link an image or gif in your post, keep it to 3 images max. (If you abuse this rule by posting something 10000px in height, I'm just going to delete your whole thread.)

Easy copy-paste:

<b>Name @ LJ/DW/tumblr/etc:</b> (if applicable) <b>Name/Handle:</b> <b>Age/Location:</b> <b>Fandoms:</b> <b>What in fandom interests me:</b> <b>What in fandom does NOT interest me:</b> <b>Major Non-fandom Interests:</b> <b>My LJ/DW/tumblr/etc Contains Mostly:</b> <b>Other:</b>


Regular secret post for today (#2978) will be up at the regular time!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ooooh tell me why you hate Joss Whedon? I kind of want to get my hate on for him. (Okay, I don't HATE him, I just think he's massively overrated.)

I just find that his characterization sucks -- he writes the same goddamn characters and seems to think snark substitutes for personality.

[dethtoll]

That's exactly how I describe my problem with Whedon -- snark in place of character development.

IMO Whedon is a self-important douche who isn't half as feminist as he thinks he is and his influence on popular "fannish" media (comics, certain tv shows and movies, etc.) has been why I don't get into a lot of stuff anymore like I used to because it all sounds the fucking same whether he helmed it or not. It's like the entire world has been taken over by late-90s UPN tv show writers.

And he shit in the heart of one of my favourite franchises (Alien.) Never forgiving him for that.

[(Anonymous)]

That link isn't working for me unfortunately (don't know if you have an alternative?), but I also wish he'd move out of my favorite fandoms. I know I love both of the Cap movies but felt he did an absolutely horrific job with Steve Rogers/Cap in The Avengers -- I actually hugely disliked his character for a really long time because I watched The Avengers first.

I'm sorry about Alien. :(

[dethtoll]

Oh goddammit I fucked the link up and DW attached its own URl to it. Here it is:

http://www.themarysue.com/reconsidering-the-feminism-of-joss-whedon/

I've yet to see Avengers. I loved the two Cap movies (and sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who likes Cap 1, though that might just be mild butthurt over kaijinscendre always telling me she doesn't like it lol) but Avengers was Whedon and I want nothing to do with it.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for the link!

You're definitely not alone in loving Cap1 (I love it to pieces) but Avengers made me gnash my teeth repeatedly over how hard Whedon was fanboying Tony Stark.

Yes, let's cast Steve -- a guy who just realized he's literally LOST everything -- as the antagonist to Tony Stark so that Tony can triumphantly prove him WRONG by being the hero in the end.

And his "genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist" line still makes me want to punch a baby.

[dethtoll]

Yeah I watched Cap 1 last year when I was on a Wolfenstein kick. I'm a big sucker for Wolfenstein's whole "derring-do behind enemy lines with weird crap going on" theme and that was reflected perfectly in Cap 1.