Hello.... if I may, I'd like to add my two cents...
I agree, Midnight. I've gotten fed up at ff.net mainly because of all the bashing. I mean, it's understandable if you dislike a character. But that doesn't automatically mean that character is OMG teh EVUL. Can they put aside their prejudice for a moment and realize that there's more to the character then that?
And the game dialog. I found a fic that was entirely game dialog. I mean, where is the skill in that? All you need to do is cut and paste, and add an occasional "he said, she said, they went there" sort of thing. I would think that that's a huge breach of copyright right there, because it's not even an attempt at making it original.
One of my largest pet peeves, which is not that big of a deal, actually, is the Insane Jolee concept. I mean, just making him act over the top crazy. Yes, he often goes off on tangents. And yes, he likes to be annoying. But he's a smart man. He's not actually crazy . No matter how many times you make him run around the Ebon Hawk spouting random phrases, he still isn't crazy. And his stories? They have points. They stand for something.
Yeah, anyways, about the whole Revan/Exile thing... too many Sues, as we all know. In the game, the character is nearly omnipotent, so fic writers have gotten it into their heads that-- OMG, Revan/Exile is teh BESTEST! Can't do wrong, lightside meter extending above the planet's atmosphere, yadda yadda. I think we've all come to terms with that. Me? I try to avoid writing those two at all. I'm not at a level in writing where I feel I could comfortably write a believable character, so I prefer to work with what's been given. Which is not anything mentioned in bold in the entire post. I don't know where they got it from.
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Date: 2005-07-04 08:44 pm (UTC)I agree, Midnight. I've gotten fed up at ff.net mainly because of all the bashing. I mean, it's understandable if you dislike a character. But that doesn't automatically mean that character is OMG teh EVUL. Can they put aside their prejudice for a moment and realize that there's more to the character then that?
And the game dialog. I found a fic that was entirely game dialog. I mean, where is the skill in that? All you need to do is cut and paste, and add an occasional "he said, she said, they went there" sort of thing. I would think that that's a huge breach of copyright right there, because it's not even an attempt at making it original.
One of my largest pet peeves, which is not that big of a deal, actually, is the Insane Jolee concept. I mean, just making him act over the top crazy. Yes, he often goes off on tangents. And yes, he likes to be annoying. But he's a smart man. He's not actually crazy . No matter how many times you make him run around the Ebon Hawk spouting random phrases, he still isn't crazy. And his stories? They have points. They stand for something.
Yeah, anyways, about the whole Revan/Exile thing... too many Sues, as we all know. In the game, the character is nearly omnipotent, so fic writers have gotten it into their heads that-- OMG, Revan/Exile is teh BESTEST! Can't do wrong, lightside meter extending above the planet's atmosphere, yadda yadda. I think we've all come to terms with that. Me? I try to avoid writing those two at all. I'm not at a level in writing where I feel I could comfortably write a believable character, so I prefer to work with what's been given. Which is not anything mentioned in bold in the entire post. I don't know where they got it from.
*whew* -noneko