Oh my God. The Glenn Quinn thing? That may be the most offensive thing I've ever read in Buffy fandom, and that is really saying something.
Honestly, I've come to believe that much of the bitterness is just a strange form of ego stroking. Fact is, at both TWoP and FT, there's almost a sort of group acceptance in ranting about Whedon/Marti/Spike/Seasons 5-7 BtVS. For every diatribe you post, you get people jumping to agree with you, posters congratulating others on their cleverness, everyone agreeing that the show would be just so much better if only you were allowed to write it. Fact is, it's easier to post a big rant over everything that's wrong, rather than actually watching the show and trying to think about what the writers' purpose may be, what they're trying to say, etc. Most of the discussion over there consists only of rushing to the most obvious one liners, and a self-congratulatory attitude over how smart they are. Luckily, they've become so infamous for their seething hatred that they're losing relevancy by the day.
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Date: 2003-10-04 01:31 am (UTC)Honestly, I've come to believe that much of the bitterness is just a strange form of ego stroking. Fact is, at both TWoP and FT, there's almost a sort of group acceptance in ranting about Whedon/Marti/Spike/Seasons 5-7 BtVS. For every diatribe you post, you get people jumping to agree with you, posters congratulating others on their cleverness, everyone agreeing that the show would be just so much better if only you were allowed to write it. Fact is, it's easier to post a big rant over everything that's wrong, rather than actually watching the show and trying to think about what the writers' purpose may be, what they're trying to say, etc. Most of the discussion over there consists only of rushing to the most obvious one liners, and a self-congratulatory attitude over how smart they are. Luckily, they've become so infamous for their seething hatred that they're losing relevancy by the day.