Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-14138255-20171101173748

Lately, I've been seeing a trend with myself and how I view and analyze fiction. I've noticed I've become a might bit dispassionate when looking at things, particularly characters. I'm not completely emotionless in terms of my viewing, and I do like things, but recently passionate expressions of love or hate of a thing in fiction have me...annoyed I suppose.

To clarify what I mean, there is a character in the new NBC show The Good Place, which I enjoy watching now (spoilers will merit immediate erasure of the offending message), known as Shawn, who is averse to any and all emotion when you present your case to him (displaying any strong amount of emotion results in him encasing himself in a cocoon in disgust).

I'm not nearly as sensitive as him of course, but seem to have some of the same reactions. Whenever people on Sufficient Velocity bash Gendo Ikari for being evil and express their desire to see him hanged or mutilated for his multitude of crimes, I just sigh in annoyance at how strongly they feel about it, having so much of a hate-boner for the guy, unable to appreciate him as a villain who's meant to be hated.

On the flip side, I also groan when people bend over backwards for characters who either don't deserve it or, worse, are irrelevant to the story. People who want Fox or Ciel or BRNZ to make regular appearances despite being completely useless or blatantly ignore all actions characters like Adam or Cinder make on the grounds that they are their favorite characters and can't do anything wrong. It's not so much the argument (which you can make for those characters, it's hard but it can be done), but it's the passion and emotion behind it, which causes them to ignore very horrendous actions that people should recognize as such but don't, and not even argue from a "this character is evil, but sympathetic or in some way likeable" sense.

Why do I make this thread? No reason at all. Bored in class with several fanfics and a project I should be working on, so naturally, I decided to just kill time. Let me know what you think should you decide to reply. 