What is it with people having to character bash in their fics? If they're not making Boromir and/or Denethor just as evil as Sauron, they're swinging to the other extreme, bashing Legolas either because they perceive him as a throwaway character, or they decide after seeing the movie, "I HATE Orlando Bloom for his beauty and popularity!!!" and just go on a character assasination spree. Don't hate or bash characters because the actor is beautiful, and don't bash Gimli just because he's gruff, isn't all that enamored of the elves from the get go, and because you think he must stink and not bathe.
Clue-time here... Aragorn, Boromir and the Hobbits probably stank too. They were on the Quest for months, they slept outside the bulk of that time - do you honestly think that they stayed every night at the Middle Earth Motel 6? "We'll leave the candle burning for you."
I don't get the Arwen bashers either, which seems to come from either jealousy that Liv Tyler is the one who got to kiss Viggo Mortenson, or, "She stole Glorfindel's part!!" Um, Arwen, nor Liv Tyler stole anything, PJ and Co. had to make a choice about what they could film, and what they couldn't, to make the best films they could. Bashing characters doesn't change that it was a movie choice. If you don't like what was done, then write fanfiction based from the book. And you still don't have to bash Arwen.
And I'll stop here before I get into the Elizabeth, Norrington, Governor Swann and Lt. Gillette bashing, or the making of Will into an idiot, Anamaria into a shrew, Jack into a perpetual drunk... If I don't stop now, I'm going to be late for work, in addition to not being able to stop wanting to torture bashers with non-stop playing of Barney, Teletubbies, and Boohbah.
With brief breaks of Rosanne Barr/Arnold/whatever she's calling herself now butchering The Star Spangled Banner.
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Date: 2005-09-29 06:50 pm (UTC)Clue-time here... Aragorn, Boromir and the Hobbits probably stank too. They were on the Quest for months, they slept outside the bulk of that time - do you honestly think that they stayed every night at the Middle Earth Motel 6? "We'll leave the candle burning for you."
I don't get the Arwen bashers either, which seems to come from either jealousy that Liv Tyler is the one who got to kiss Viggo Mortenson, or, "She stole Glorfindel's part!!" Um, Arwen, nor Liv Tyler stole anything, PJ and Co. had to make a choice about what they could film, and what they couldn't, to make the best films they could. Bashing characters doesn't change that it was a movie choice. If you don't like what was done, then write fanfiction based from the book. And you still don't have to bash Arwen.
And I'll stop here before I get into the Elizabeth, Norrington, Governor Swann and Lt. Gillette bashing, or the making of Will into an idiot, Anamaria into a shrew, Jack into a perpetual drunk... If I don't stop now, I'm going to be late for work, in addition to not being able to stop wanting to torture bashers with non-stop playing of Barney, Teletubbies, and Boohbah.
With brief breaks of Rosanne Barr/Arnold/whatever she's calling herself now butchering The Star Spangled Banner.