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It's kind of pointless to discuss why you dislike a show/book/whatever. I mean, yeah, you've got some initial grousing, but after that, what else is there to say? "Yeah, man -- still sucks, yeah." There's really no point -- to me -- in posting, because that isn't exactly intelligent discourse.
I disagree with this on principle, but I think it came out as more of a blanket statement than you probably intended -- certainly, one can have an intelligent and articulate argument over why something does or doesn't work. (Otherwise, what were we doing during almost all of Buffy S6 and 7?)
And Allyson saying that she wants to punch people in the nose sounds like she will go apeshit on anyone who says anything bad about the show.
Really? I'm not going to try and tell you what you took of it, since you're pretty clear, but I'm curious about others...her words didn't say this to me, nor her tone, and it's only with other people mentioning it that I even considered this interpretation.
I said this in thread that after I posted a snark directed entirely towards Fox I was expecting a metaphorical punch in the nose. And I wasn't commenting on Tim, Kristen or TV's hit
Drive
in my snark.
For the record, all I got was a chide from Monique that I didn't take badly. But I did apologize for my snark because of the culture in Minearverse. In any other thread? I wouldn't have.
It's kind of pointless to discuss why you dislike a show/book/whatever. I mean, yeah, you've got some initial grousing, but after that, what else is there to say? "Yeah, man -- still sucks, yeah." There's really no point -- to me -- in posting, because that isn't exactly intelligent discourse.
I disagree with this on principle, but I think it came out as more of a blanket statement than you probably intended -- certainly, one can have an intelligent and articulate argument over why something does or doesn't work. (Otherwise, what were we doing during almost all of Buffy S6 and 7?)
Yeah, I thought about amending it, but I didn't want to dilute my point.
Whenever I criticized/grumbled about/dissed Buffy or Angel, it was, more or less, in the larger context of my great big love for the shows in general.
But since I didn't like very much about Firefly, and nothing about The Inside, I, personally, didn't have a larger context in which to bring up criticisms about specifics.
But I totally understand what you're saying, and yeah -- I was too blanket-y.
Damn, I was so trying to pussyfoot around that I didn't actually say anything in my post.
And Allyson saying that she wants to punch people in the nose sounds like she will go apeshit on anyone who says anything bad about the show.
My personal read was that, yes, Allyson would be very unhappy when things were said that weren't complimentary about the show or even around the show. And express that. But, and personal read again here,
not
to the point we'd need to be in this thread. Make it uncomfy for those people, maybe. But nothing expressly demon-like, just so that maybe being in that thread wasn't the place you'd want to be.
(Otherwise, what were we doing during almost all of Buffy S6 and 7?)
If you were me or Plei (probably a few others)? Defending season 6.
probably a few others
::raises hand::
Season 5 is the one that sucks.
Season 5 is the one that sucks.
High fives Hec
Always at the bottom of my list.
::turns her back on Hec and Frank::
I'll defend Season 6. But I'll acknowledge that Jessica felt very differently, and I'll agree (both as to my opinion and the majority opinion of posters at the time) as to Season 7.
Really, my ONLY point was that negative feelings about a show/movie/book do not necessarily imply an inability to contribute to a discussion of said work in an intelligent and worthwhile fashion.
BtVS S6/7 was merely a handy example of an existing scenario where we, as a group, managed to intelligently discuss things that several people involved in said discussion did not like.
There are plenty of examples I could pull from Literary and Movies too (and probably Music, except I'm not in that thread) -- television is a weird exception because if you don't like a show, you'll probably stop watching it (and, subsequently, won't have an opinion on new eps). Unlike a book or movie, where once you've read/watched, you've got an opinion on the finished work whether you liked it or not.
