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The Harmonian Custodian (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} esclaramonde) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} fandom_wank,@ 2006-05-04 23:10:00 |
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Another un-ship-related HP wank!
Menolike makes a post in HP_theories about witches who marry Muggles in which she brings up a few questions. Someone asks her "why is it always a Muggle father and a Witch mother?" Rogueravenclaw replies that the only exception she could think of was Dean Thomas. Menolike asks where she read that, as she didn't remember it in the books, and Faraday replies with a link to the interview.
Menolike REALLY doesn't like it when JK Rowling does interviews.
WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY NOW WILL COME OUT RATHER STRONG. SO, DON'T FEEL THAT YOU HAVE TO REPLY.
IN FACT,I ENCOURAGE YOU NOT TO.
I said it before, and I'll say it again.
I hold writers who use interviews and such to 'explain' their point or to 'tell us more about the characters' instead of using their own books; in not a very favorable view.
You're a writer, use your writings to make your point. AND don't allow yourself to get influenced by the fans (e.g. the Tonks-Remus relationship [which I believe to counter the much slash of SS/RL or SB/RL found in fanfic], which should have been better handled)
Bernard Show, didn't allow his readers to influence the ending of his play 'Pygmalion'; even though he wrote two different endings. He did not allow for the Higgins-Eliza coupling (which was shown in the movie "My fair lady").
And do you think that Mark Twain, after writing his short story 'A medieval story' (I'm not very sure of the title…forgive me). Didn't get letters asking/demanding that he should change the very open – cliffhanger ending?
Story tellers create a world to enchant their listeners. They're loyal to that world. If they want to tell about other characters, they do it in a story with a plot. Not in interviews or web sites.
Tolkeins, Created a world and introduced the characters in different stories, each with a plot, no matter how small (No! there IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN HIM AND JKR. They're not the only writers to create a fictional world. e.g. A Thousand and One Nights, is full of magic and the world of the supernatural). And Tolkeins did not give interviews did he? (but then he is considered a serious writer).
I know what I said seems harsh to some. But it irritates me when I'm told something about a character/event and then discovers that the information was given on an interview or web site.
It only increases my quickly-becoming-conviction of the numerous plot-holes that the writer is NOW trying to explain away.
Faraday, not surprisingly, is a bit offended to get this lecture. Menolike insists that she wasn't being insulting and was merely ranting.
Wintermoon3 says, sensibly, If you are so irritated by interviews and websites that reveal the author's additional thoughts or statements on the books, then why are you torturing yourself in a community specifically designed to discuss theories on these books - theories which are frequently developed, proven or discounted based on statements by that very author in those very interviews and websites?
And Poetheather reminds Menolike about the fact that Professor Tolkien did give several interviews, as a matter of fact. And in them he did discuss the characters of his stories and clarified parts of the narrative. To which Menolike just keeps going ON.
ETA: Menolike tells a girl with a learning disorder that the reason she didn't do well in school was that she was spoiled. And tells her thoughts on the nobility:
Yours is a family who has lots of money, where I come from, that's how your family would be viewed.
They would not be considered rich unless they have lands of their own and an above than average history to go with it. If this family has 'cash in the bank', then that would be considered a plus. But that's it.
My own family doesn't have much 'cash in the bank', but we have the history and land, and so we are considered 'rich'. And yes, my parents made sure our education was much better than average. After all, we must preserve the family's name and honor. To fail would be a disaster (unfortunately that used to lead to some cases of suicide in some families). After all, there still exists the different families rivalry.
Menolike makes a post in HP_theories about witches who marry Muggles in which she brings up a few questions. Someone asks her "why is it always a Muggle father and a Witch mother?" Rogueravenclaw replies that the only exception she could think of was Dean Thomas. Menolike asks where she read that, as she didn't remember it in the books, and Faraday replies with a link to the interview.
Menolike REALLY doesn't like it when JK Rowling does interviews.
WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY NOW WILL COME OUT RATHER STRONG. SO, DON'T FEEL THAT YOU HAVE TO REPLY.
IN FACT,I ENCOURAGE YOU NOT TO.
I said it before, and I'll say it again.
I hold writers who use interviews and such to 'explain' their point or to 'tell us more about the characters' instead of using their own books; in not a very favorable view.
You're a writer, use your writings to make your point. AND don't allow yourself to get influenced by the fans (e.g. the Tonks-Remus relationship [which I believe to counter the much slash of SS/RL or SB/RL found in fanfic], which should have been better handled)
Bernard Show, didn't allow his readers to influence the ending of his play 'Pygmalion'; even though he wrote two different endings. He did not allow for the Higgins-Eliza coupling (which was shown in the movie "My fair lady").
And do you think that Mark Twain, after writing his short story 'A medieval story' (I'm not very sure of the title…forgive me). Didn't get letters asking/demanding that he should change the very open – cliffhanger ending?
Story tellers create a world to enchant their listeners. They're loyal to that world. If they want to tell about other characters, they do it in a story with a plot. Not in interviews or web sites.
Tolkeins, Created a world and introduced the characters in different stories, each with a plot, no matter how small (No! there IS NO COMPARISON BETWEEN HIM AND JKR. They're not the only writers to create a fictional world. e.g. A Thousand and One Nights, is full of magic and the world of the supernatural). And Tolkeins did not give interviews did he? (but then he is considered a serious writer).
I know what I said seems harsh to some. But it irritates me when I'm told something about a character/event and then discovers that the information was given on an interview or web site.
It only increases my quickly-becoming-conviction of the numerous plot-holes that the writer is NOW trying to explain away.
Faraday, not surprisingly, is a bit offended to get this lecture. Menolike insists that she wasn't being insulting and was merely ranting.
Wintermoon3 says, sensibly, If you are so irritated by interviews and websites that reveal the author's additional thoughts or statements on the books, then why are you torturing yourself in a community specifically designed to discuss theories on these books - theories which are frequently developed, proven or discounted based on statements by that very author in those very interviews and websites?
And Poetheather reminds Menolike about the fact that Professor Tolkien did give several interviews, as a matter of fact. And in them he did discuss the characters of his stories and clarified parts of the narrative. To which Menolike just keeps going ON.
ETA: Menolike tells a girl with a learning disorder that the reason she didn't do well in school was that she was spoiled. And tells her thoughts on the nobility:
Yours is a family who has lots of money, where I come from, that's how your family would be viewed.
They would not be considered rich unless they have lands of their own and an above than average history to go with it. If this family has 'cash in the bank', then that would be considered a plus. But that's it.
My own family doesn't have much 'cash in the bank', but we have the history and land, and so we are considered 'rich'. And yes, my parents made sure our education was much better than average. After all, we must preserve the family's name and honor. To fail would be a disaster (unfortunately that used to lead to some cases of suicide in some families). After all, there still exists the different families rivalry.
