so it's not like bad boy Spike fans are all deeply disturbed bloodthirsty homicidal maniacs. On a related note, I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome deadsoul820 to my friends list!)
Thanks for the compliment, but I can't take credit for it. Being a bloodthirsty homicidal maniac is just too energetic - I can't be bothered.
You know, when I hit the comment button, I had all sorts of thoughts about belief vs. preference and fanon vs. canon and individuals' beliefs about what characters may or may not have done when they were off camera, but I got up to get a drink of water so now I don't remember a damned thing I was going to say.
I think what it boils down to, as long as it doesn't outright contradict what's been aired, one person's beliefs about whatever so-and-so was up to in the in-betweens, is just as valid as anyone else's, just as canon. Which ties into the authorial intent vs. audience perception school of art appreciation/criticism/passive acceptance. If, however, next season Connor is shown to be 100% grade A unspecial human, and people persist in believing that he's still all uber, then you have the situation of the people who refuse to believe that Drusilla sired Spike, who are still insisting that Angelus did it. Granted, they may have more of a stump to stand on because of School Hard. Shit, where the hell was I going with this. I've completely lost the plot.
Okay, so I don't believe that Spike went back and killed the upper class fictional British twits after he was turned. I actually don't care that much. I have a preference that he was of the opinion that leaving them to continue to be as they were was worse punishment than anything he, or any other monster, could dish out. There's something comforting about seeing some of the other people as being on this planet simply to make you glad you're not them (so long as you carefully block out the logical conclusion that you're on the planet to make other people glad they're not you). Does this make me a Gnostic, a skeptic, or just mean and self-deluded?
Hell, it's LJ, so I don't have to make sense. Those unreasonable pedants over at ATPo actually expect you to be able to back up your arguments, so again, with the can't be bothered.
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Date: 2003-05-10 04:28 pm (UTC)Thanks for the compliment, but I can't take credit for it. Being a bloodthirsty homicidal maniac is just too energetic - I can't be bothered.
You know, when I hit the comment button, I had all sorts of thoughts about belief vs. preference and fanon vs. canon and individuals' beliefs about what characters may or may not have done when they were off camera, but I got up to get a drink of water so now I don't remember a damned thing I was going to say.
I think what it boils down to, as long as it doesn't outright contradict what's been aired, one person's beliefs about whatever so-and-so was up to in the in-betweens, is just as valid as anyone else's, just as canon. Which ties into the authorial intent vs. audience perception school of art appreciation/criticism/passive acceptance. If, however, next season Connor is shown to be 100% grade A unspecial human, and people persist in believing that he's still all uber, then you have the situation of the people who refuse to believe that Drusilla sired Spike, who are still insisting that Angelus did it. Granted, they may have more of a stump to stand on because of School Hard. Shit, where the hell was I going with this. I've completely lost the plot.
Okay, so I don't believe that Spike went back and killed the upper class fictional British twits after he was turned. I actually don't care that much. I have a preference that he was of the opinion that leaving them to continue to be as they were was worse punishment than anything he, or any other monster, could dish out. There's something comforting about seeing some of the other people as being on this planet simply to make you glad you're not them (so long as you carefully block out the logical conclusion that you're on the planet to make other people glad they're not you). Does this make me a Gnostic, a skeptic, or just mean and self-deluded?
Hell, it's LJ, so I don't have to make sense. Those unreasonable pedants over at ATPo actually expect you to be able to back up your arguments, so again, with the can't be bothered.