fannish discussions and real people

[tielan]

Well, that was fun.

Five minutes talking Star Wars characterisation in the originals vs the prequels, with two guys, one of whom looked at the other guy for the entirety of my argument that the prequels had bad characterisation and that it wasn't entirely due to the 'protocols and structures and formality of the Old Republic'.

And then at the end I get dismissed as a "Star Wars freak" because I know the names of the Imperial officers in the original movies and was using them as an argument to say that the issue with the lack of character in the prequels is not the fact that they're in a formal structure - the Old Republic, the Senate, the Jedi Council.

Protocols, structures, and formality doesn't mean you erase all personality from characters. People still react with their personality when there are limits laid upon them. We can't help it. We're frigging human. (Yes, even the aliens depicted on our screens. Unless they're the bad guys, in which case they're depicted as incomprehensibly alien.)

I can see my future, and there is much headdesking that will be done in the next week. There's almost certainly going to be A Disussion Of Feminism on Wednesday at the Sydney Quilt Show (where the gay guy representing 'the future of modern quilting' is a major advertising point) probably with a bunch of women who simply won't get it. Or don't want to.

Comments

[everbright]

That's... wow, that's the worst. There was no way to come out of that conversation feeling good. :(

[alexseanchai]

Wheeeeeeee.