Legend of the Seeker fans annoy me!
Aug. 28th, 2010 01:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
falcon_horusBe aware - swearing and rant ahead - cut for safety!
YES, THEY FRELLIN' WELL DO!!
Frellin' idiots!!
OMG!!11!!! OH NOEZ!!! *gasp* Cara is not a main character - she's a glorified extra. It's all about Richard and Kahlan, Kahlan and Richard, Richard and/or Kahlan, Kahlan and/or Richard. Now, remember that and forget about Zedd and Cara - Richard and Kahlan are the only ones you need to remember.
What?!? Cara/Kahlan - are you insane?!? OH NOEZ!!! Kahlan's with Richard. It's all about Richard and Kahlan, and their twu lurve. Get real, there's nothing between Cara and Kahlan... you silly fangirl! Go watch the show again and pay better attention.
Not all of them, mind you, but some are just so damn annoying... and they're seriously ruining it for me. I would go as far as to say -> Hey, your Richard and Kahlan ain't coming back! (neither is Cara but I can live with one season of total awesomeness) Your favorite show got cancelled. Mine got renewed! *sticks tongue out* Take that!
Even the enthusiasm to read the books to see how they compare to the show has vanished like snow in the sun.... Thank you folks! Spend 20£ on a book I don't want to read anymore. You folks managed to make me dislike the bloody Richard and Kahlan characters.
But considering Kahlan is one of my favorites, Richard has to take it all. =P
3/4 of the people at Legendoftheseeker.org can go to No Undies World (LotS version of hell - the dominion of the Keeper, the underworld) for all I care. Frakkers!
If you feel like being one of those 3/4 - be aware I behold the right to delete your comment and kick your virtual ass off my flist faster than you can type supercalefragelisticexpealidocious. You won't make it past super... ;) ...I've had it with the intolerant people in fandom (any fandom).
YES, THEY FRELLIN' WELL DO!!
Frellin' idiots!!
OMG!!11!!! OH NOEZ!!! *gasp* Cara is not a main character - she's a glorified extra. It's all about Richard and Kahlan, Kahlan and Richard, Richard and/or Kahlan, Kahlan and/or Richard. Now, remember that and forget about Zedd and Cara - Richard and Kahlan are the only ones you need to remember.
What?!? Cara/Kahlan - are you insane?!? OH NOEZ!!! Kahlan's with Richard. It's all about Richard and Kahlan, and their twu lurve. Get real, there's nothing between Cara and Kahlan... you silly fangirl! Go watch the show again and pay better attention.
Not all of them, mind you, but some are just so damn annoying... and they're seriously ruining it for me. I would go as far as to say -> Hey, your Richard and Kahlan ain't coming back! (neither is Cara but I can live with one season of total awesomeness) Your favorite show got cancelled. Mine got renewed! *sticks tongue out* Take that!
Even the enthusiasm to read the books to see how they compare to the show has vanished like snow in the sun.... Thank you folks! Spend 20£ on a book I don't want to read anymore. You folks managed to make me dislike the bloody Richard and Kahlan characters.
But considering Kahlan is one of my favorites, Richard has to take it all. =P
3/4 of the people at Legendoftheseeker.org can go to No Undies World (LotS version of hell - the dominion of the Keeper, the underworld) for all I care. Frakkers!
If you feel like being one of those 3/4 - be aware I behold the right to delete your comment and kick your virtual ass off my flist faster than you can type supercalefragelisticexpealidocious. You won't make it past super... ;) ...I've had it with the intolerant people in fandom (any fandom).
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Date: 2010-08-28 12:04 am (UTC)Too-dominant 'ships can be very troublesome. It's really tough when they don't love the other characters for their unique contributions to the story, too, even in the light of their dominant interpretation.
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Date: 2010-08-29 09:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-08-29 05:54 pm (UTC)A friend of mine used to joke that we each got our own special "feed" of FK, because the incompatible interpretations seemed as if we were all watching different cuts. :-)
>"Am I right?"
We've had a lot of years in FK, so I've gotten to see trends come and go. Yes, that's one.
The summer after cancellation, fourteen years ago, had a lot of bitterness, both in general and specifically targeted at other people's favorite characters. (Do you know how the series ends? Everyone dies.) FK fandom tore itself apart in the two years after cancellation, and while we've come a long way, we've never entirely healed. Is that perhaps what's going on in your LotS fandom lately?
I personally like it best when we all play together, in a full grand mix of different opinions... but of course I also sometimes long for the comfort of people who agree with me! Just like everyone else. :-)
By far, the dominant 'ships in FK are the N&Ners (Nick/Natalie) and the Unnamed Faction (Nick/Lacroix). We have many others -- and we've named them all! -- but those two are overwhelmingly popular. And I don't happen to adhere to either.
However, if we must have dominant 'ships at all, I think that we're blessed in FK to have competition. I have a theory that the long-term, post-cancellation survival of a fandom depends in part on not reducing it to a single dominant 'ship. I think that for stories and discussion still to be generated years later, a fandom must make room for competing interpretations -- gen as well as multiple 'ships -- because there must be room for questions that need answers. If a fandom reduced itself to a single 'ship, it would reduce to a single question, thus to a single answer, and then *poof!* the fans might as well pack up and go home, because that would be the real end of the story.
So you may be doing your fandom a service simply by disagreeing with the dominant interpretation, even though they don't know and won't thank you.