fannish observations

[veronica_rich]

I am well over the annoyances/anger I used to feel reading a lot of J/E stories in the POTC fandom. A lot of my response was snap-anger at fics/meta that didn't deserve it, simply because I'd read one or two things that day that were poorly written. However, I do have at least one lingering prejudice regarding that pairing: If you write J/E and paint Will as some sort of cad because he abandoned Elizabeth to captain the Dutchman, I'm going to assume you were either drinking heavily through AWE or had your head stuffed up your ass and couldn't properly see the screen. Making Jack out to be her ideal guy simply because he's able to walk on land, and Will the questionable one for having the audacity to get stabbed protecting his wife and being sentenced to the Dutchman and the sea (a decision Jack made for him, ironically), is just bad writing. (I believe it also shows the J/E pairing doesn't "speak" that loudly to you after all, and you're just after The Formula of Hot Lead Dude with Hot Lead Babe. Which, I suppose is a valid basis for writing for fun. *G*)

Also, I read somewhere Disney is allegedly (heavy on the questionability here) scheduling the release of POTC4 sometime in 2011. How the heck is that going to happen if they're not even filming yet? /headscratch

Also, on the new Holmes fandom: If you've only seen the movie and know nothing of the books, and you're bitching that Adler/Holmes is being shafted in favor of Holmes/Watson in the fandom? Shut up. GO READ, CRETIN. I'm all for GRRRRRL POWER and I loved the movie - but I also read all of Doyle's canon in my early 20s and the differences between that and this incarnation of Holmes are crystal clear. The original Holmes not only had nothing going on with Irene, it's pretty clear throughout the stories that he didn't really like women. (Hell, even Carole Nelson Douglas knew this, and she managed to get several books out of Irene NOT getting together with Holmes. Unless she's broken her formula in the latter novels ...)

(Don't lean too close to read this. I have germs and general nastiness in my lungs right now. *sniffle*)

Comments

[joyful-molly.livejournal.com]

Adler/Holmes is being shafted in favor of Holmes/Watson

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AHAHAHAHAAHAHA!

Because Irene's Holmes' twu wuvvie, eh? Yeah, we all know that he's a womanizer; not one story without romance and... oh, oops. WRONG BOOK.

Nothing and nobody will ever make me watch that movie, and I'll keep far away from the fandom. Holmes is serious business, yo.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm staying out of the fandom, but I did enjoy the movie. Of course, as you're watching, you have to simply accept you're watching a Guy Ritchie action film and try not to think about it being Holmes too hard. *G*