From 619bec4d53a6ed0ffeeb69345d24694e11441bb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matěj Cepl Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 07:09:28 +0200 Subject: Split HP & Sayers into two posts … the other one on bashing. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- faith/on_bashing.rst | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 faith/on_bashing.rst (limited to 'faith/on_bashing.rst') diff --git a/faith/on_bashing.rst b/faith/on_bashing.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b8599e --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/on_bashing.rst @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +On bashing +########## + +:date: 2020-04-24 +:category: faith +:tags: review, harryPotter, blogComment, fromReddit + + +Bashing and similar are not the cause of poor quality of their +stories, but they are just a symptom of the author being lead by +the poor design of his story into areas, which would be +impossible to resolve or it would be too difficult, so bashing is +then just a cheap cop-out from the bad situation. From bad to +worse. + +E.g., I really liked (ultra-cheesy, teeth rotting, true) setup of +`A Different Halloween by RobSt`_: Lily Potter meets Emma Granger +at the paediatrician, and they go the Grangers’ for tea, so when +Voldemort calls, James Potter is on the phone with Lilly, more +alert, and he doesn’t have a problem of defending Lilly and +Harry; thus he manages to escape. The problem of this story was +that all problems were (in a rather elegant manner) resolved in +the middle of the third chapter (when Voldemort truly completely +and irrevocably died). The author had two good options what do in +that situation: he could just finish the story right there, and +it would be a nice short sugar-sweet three-shot story. Nothing +against that. Or he could really sit down on his behind and +develop the new completely original storyline. He went the third, +poor, way: by the ridiculous amount of the Dumbledore bashing he +tried to make a villain out of him and the result was ridiculous. + +And no, it is possible to write Dumbledore as a bad guy, I am not +claiming he must be a saint, but it is a hard job and the author +must really write a long persuasive story to get from the most +positive to a negative character. `There Will Be No Foolish Wand +Waving by kgfinkel`_ made an almost good job in this area. + +.. _`A Different Halloween by RobSt`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6439871 + +.. _`There Will Be No Foolish Wand Waving by kgfinkel`: + https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13137899 -- cgit