The same people who made you care about the character originally did this terrible thing to him/her -- they intentionally did something that hurt you. They wanted it to hurt you.
But... that's what I'm in it for! It's why I said, when confessing to falling hard for Spooks/MI-5 on episode the second:
Suddenly, the show is Tim Minear brutal, and I realize that no-one is safe.
Bring on the pain, and screw the safe word.
I only get mad at the creators (and then in the same "bitch, PLEASE!" way I got mad at Flaubert for the inane drivel that was Madame Bovary) when they write something that sucks/insults even my idiot cat's intellegence.
So you get people who have formed a whole online identity based on being angry about a fictional miscarriage of justice.
These persons scare me. Identities based on anger scare me.
Maybe I am just scared.
Eh, Cindy, that must have been a doppelganger you bumped into at the Kitten board. As far as I remember, when I first ventured into online fandom, all the boards I registered at were Spike-centric. It is possible, though, that I registered at the Kitten board because they had information about Chance when it came out. Possibly, but I don't think so. I never would have posted there, though. As it is, most of the boards I'm registered at I just used either for spoiler info or for fic recs.
The Doyle fans, while definitely pissed off, never reached the same place that some of the W/T fans did. At times, they were annoying (especially the WE DESERVE THE TRUTH people). But mostly they were just eye-rolling funny.
The post-Tara death saga was, I think, the first time I saw other fans as "scary." All the "don't stand near any windows" rhetoric was a whole new level of anger and I still can't comprehend it.
t wonders if he is a scary fan
Bag that.
Every Buffista scared of me is a wimp.
:: Looks at SailAweigh ::
:: Lusts ::
Sail may be ahead on points.
And, look, there's an official message board now for The Inside.
I ain't signing no agreements with Fox about my right to have an opinion.
Rachel Nichols just keeps staring at me.
I like it.
