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(Uh, Watsonian vs. Doylist: [link])
Oooh, useful! I realize I'm mostly Doylist because whenever there were complaints about Cordy's character arc on Angel, I'd shrug and go, "Well, maybe Charisma shouldn't have done so much blow she had to change her hairstyle every week and go to rehab and get written out of the show."
And Joss just deleted his Twitter account.
I think I'm a fan of the Forsythian view, myself.
edit: as in Laura is a willing beard for Clint and Coulson because she gets a nice place to live, pleasant guys to hang out with, and good looking kids out of the deal. Also, Steve and Tony were doing things in the barn Fury threatened to tear his remaining eye out over. Hence him saying he worries about Tony. See? It writes itself.
A good read (I thought) from Speranza, who is in slash fandom, but has lots of interesting things to say about reading the film from a Doylist perspective. A lot of her thoughts are my thoughts.
Yeah, I recognize that a lot of what felt like bloat to me is because Marvel Studios has a damn 100-year movie plan at this point, and AoU had to set more things in place (though Thor's trip to the Pool of Revelation or whatever the hell it was, just so he could infodump to the audience, was ridiculously clunky). That's not something Joss could do anything about.
Joss also deleted it in 2013. As I was saying on Tumblr, the negative feedback he's been getting may have hastened it, but given that he's through with his promotional obligations, I expect he'd have done it within a week or two, anyhow.
Oooh, useful! I realize I'm mostly Doylist because whenever there were complaints about Cordy's character arc on Angel, I'd shrug and go, "Well, maybe Charisma shouldn't have done so much blow she had to change her hairstyle every week and go to rehab and get written out of the show."
Heh. But dontcha know she was written out because she was knocked up? ::eyeroll::
I'm actually pretty Doylist a lot of the time, but I'm also not going to completely excuse clunky workarounds or poor writing choices.
And Joss just deleted his Twitter account.
Yeah, apparently a bunch of people twitted at him with stuff like "go kill yourself," like WTF, people?
I'm a fan of the Forsythian view, myself.
I've been in my part of fandom so long, I almost have a hard time understanding why people get worked up over canon they don't like. I mean, of course I understand it, but there's also a part of me that's like "Canon isn't the boss of us!"
I'll just say that Doyleist is very confusing when talking about Angel! I was really confused!
I'm actually pretty Doylist a lot of the time, but I'm also not going to completely excuse clunky workarounds or poor writing choices.
Me too.
I've been in my part of fandom so long, I almost have a hard time understanding why people get worked up over canon they don't like. I mean, of course I understand it, but there's also a part of me that's like "Canon isn't the boss of us!"
Me too.
Have I any original thoughts? Not at the moment.
Second viewing really helped mute down my "This movie is about to burst at the seams!" reaction from opening night. I'd imagine familiarity was more responsible for it making more sense than seeing the scene I'd missed in Round One, so it really is a film that improves with repeated watching.