[ SECRET POST #3488 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3488 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So is this one of those things where you just don't like someone's face or voice?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, both, in this case.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, fair enough, but I have to say it does seem a little odd to run around yelling about how an actress completely ruined a show when actually you mean that they ruined it for you because of a personal and admittedly irrational distaste for them as an actress

It's like if I ran around telling everyone that a restaurant is awful because they serve cauliflower and I happen to be allergic to cauliflower. It's definitely something to be aware of if you also happen to be allergic to cauliflower, but it's not really a generally applicable point about the restaurant.

[(Anonymous)]

If we're gonna use the cauliflower analogy, then it's more like this: There's a dish you love, it's your favorite dish and you look forward to having it every week. Most importantly, it doesn't contain cauliflower.

Then, one day, the cook decides to add cauliflower. At first, it's just a little bit and you can pick it out and can still enjoy your favorite dish. Then the cook starts adding more and more of cauliflower each week. In fact, the cook decides the cauliflower is so important it should become of the main ingredients. Eventually, your favorite dish is 1/3 cauliflower which makes it impossible for you to enjoy it any longer.

Okay, let's stop with the cauliflower for the moment...I don't think my dislike is irrational, not completely. I said I could stand her as a character if she wasn't played by Amy Acker, but that doesn't mean I don't think the amount of screentime the character got was pointless; I still think she was made much more important than she should have and has took away screentime from the other actually likeable characters. She made the awful S4 storyline even worse. I'm not the only one who feels this way, obviously, since the show got canceled and I'm happy it did, it was an act of mercy. They barely managed to get a half-season to wrap things up. I was gonna watch it, but since Root is now the voice of the machine and basically immortal, I'm done with this shit of a show.

[(Anonymous)]

The point of the analogy is that the cauliflower isn't bad. It's just that you happen to have, for whatever reason, an allergy to cauliflower. If someone wasn't allergic to cauliflower, they would probably quite like the restaurant. And probably would not feel that the inclusion of cauliflower in a dish ruined the whole restaurant experience. And it genuinely sucks for you that the cauliflower ruined your experience! I'm not saying it doesn't. It sucks that it had to be that way. But to run around saying that the restaurant is objectively bad because they included an ingredient that you happen to be allergic to doesn't make sense to me.

Like, it sucks that you don't like Root and her increasing screen time made you like the show less. That doesn't mean that Root isn't a likable character, though. That doesn't mean she's a bad character. It means that you don't like her because, for whatever reason, you really hate Amy Acker. There is a really basic and obvious distinction between those things that you don't seem to acknowledge. And I acknowledge that you think the character got too much screen time even if she was not played by Amy Acker, but there's a gap between "got too much screen time" and "ruined the show".

Also, like, PoI was never really a ratings hit and blaming its cancellation on Amy Acker personally is just factually wrong. Sorry. Like, seriously, "I stopped watching it for reason X; other people also stopped watching it; therefore, they must have stopped watching it for reason X" is just not logically coherent.