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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-10-18 04:13 pm

[ SECRET POST #3210 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3210 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-10-19 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
I kind of feel like this got bad in the late '90s, with the X-Files. The fandom entitlement in that scene was BIZARRE. People were so, so angry at Chris Carter. Like, dude, if you don't like it, STOP WATCHING IT. But this is Chris Carter's baby, not yours. You don't call the shots, he does. I don't care how much shit fanfic you write, these are still his characters and his situations.

(Anonymous) 2015-10-19 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
That's funny, I think The X-Files is a great example of a time when this kind of Clueless Creator criticism is totally warranted. CC so often came off as incredibly obtuse about what actually made his show great. He seemed to be incapable of separating romantic love from gender roles, and he evidently had some real blockages when it came to understanding Scully's potential as a character. He was shit at character development, and double shit at continuity.

It's all fine and good to say, "If you don't like it, stop watching," but it's incredibly un-fun to watch something you love being driven into the ground until you're not sure you can love it anymore.


I bears saying that I would not level this kind of criticism at every creator. Joss Whedon, for example, is not a perfect creator, but he rarely seems oblivious to the human element in his stories the way CC did.