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[muji]

Yeah, I got nothin'. I don't even have tv to be excited about today. Lame. I'm gonna go EP.

SUPERCOOL TOPIC FROM spooky_lemur:

We all love our pups but unfortunately don't write them in whatever media they are published in. This can lead to one problem, writing we don't agree with! Share a moment of out of character writing you feel your pup has suffered. Yes I know there are likely to be many, just pick one that shines above the others.

CAN WE TALK ABOUT CARLISLE NOT STOPPING EDWARD FROM GOING TO ITALY PLZ? WHUT. WHUT. SZDGASDFASFASFHBDF.

Comments

[gorgonfondness]

Lunar is really very good at keeping characters consistent. Or at least the Lunar games I've played. Dragon Song can go die in a fire. But since that game doesn't contain any of the Lunar characters I play, it's not a worry. Closest thing I can really think of is Mia actually fighting to kill, but she has mentioned in the game that she finds nothing cheerful or exciting about the experience and that she is simply doing her duty. Any time she's fought in another world, she was doing what she believed she needed to do for a friend or, in some situations, self defense.

Frankly, I'm probably worse in messing around with Mia's character under the guise of her growing up.

[ceitfianna]

I'm currently at the library though I slept later than I meant to and I'm feeling tired. Also I have lots of scheduling to do for my trip north this weekend, I hate having to figure out connections they make me worry.
All I can say for Will is Christian Slater. *twitch*

Demeter's from a canon that is made up of many parts but I don't like how in the Homeric Hymn, she and Kore/Seph go back to Olympus and play happy families just no. Those two ladies would not go live there again after all that happened but it was a creation of the age and I made it work better.

I adore Jane's canon lots and lots and history is mean to them.

I think the only thing I had a really hard time with in the newest movie adaptation for Tumnus was the extra angsty moment with Edmund, it really wasn't needed.

The Pirate King did not marry that random woman at the end, he married Ruth.

[pastrydeity]

Pirate King/Ruth forever!

[mmexlibris]

Not my pup, but a certain pup that my pup is rather fond of got his characterisation totally screwed by his canon. Every story needs a villain, but I think the writers really stretched credibility to make this pup the bad guy. I personally think the writers didn't grok how military organizations work, how military relationships work.

But I think said pup's mun has done a fantastic job of taking said not-villain through a fantastic millicanon, and making him into a three dimensional character. He's not a paladin, not by any stretch of the imagination, but he has his reasons. He's petty and vindictive, and grumpy and high-minded. But he's a person with his own motivations, not some cardboard cut out authority figure with evil in his heart.

As for my own pups, I'm still struggling with my own characterisations in many ways, having only been here since January. I think Fiona is the only one with enough canon for me to be able to point out OOC moments. River's canon is two eps, Mills' is two hours.

I think perhaps Gecko is a little too bright eyed, but y'know, he's a fabulous actor. That's just raw talent there. Wasted on auto insurance. ~weeps~

[moonlup.livejournal.com]

:3

[genarti]

*eyes Marvel*

Well, there was that time Piotr beat Kitty's new boyfriend almost to death, after they'd been broken up for years and Piotr was the one to break up with her in the first place...

Um yeah.

(I can make some of it work. Piotr was having a pretty big emotional breakdown at the time, after all. The extent of it, though, is kind of... um. Yeah. Not my favorite.)

Beyond that, there are a whole zillion continuity-is-optional moments. Oh, Marvel.

Really, Piotr's canon is the only one that's big enough for that kind of thing to be really egregious; the X-Men have been written over the course of decades by a huge succession of writers under successive editors, so it would be more unbelievable if it didn't have moments like that. Plenty of other characters have gotten it even worse.

--Oh, one other: that bit in Serenity where River punches Simon in the throat. I can make it work if I have to, but I was glad to do it otherwise in Milliways' slightly-AU version. (I'd buy it easily if it were anyone else, but... Simon.)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

Two words for Piotr, Secret Wars.

And I'm running away now.

[genarti]

Pthbbbb, is what I say to you. PTHBBBBBBBB.

(Oh, Marvel.)

[evil_koala_626]

One word: Angel.


What the hell, Disney? WHAT THE HELL?!

[jothra]

...oh god why. why is there dubiously rated fanart of this.

[pastrydeity]

It's not exactly out of character, but Al's canon self-contradicts all over the place, which gets annoying.

Squirrel had a throwaway joke once where he accidentally admits that he got into politics to repeal bestiality laws. Yeah, I pretend that didn't happen.

WTF that scene with Gaia and Pullo in the kitchen. Pretty gratuitous, in my opinion, but Rome for a while there seemed to think the episodes were incomplete if some of the main characters neither got laid nor killed anyone.

WTF the vast majority of Time Enough for Love. Seriously, WTF.

And Aeneas canonically has no personality so he's never out of character.

[ceitfianna]

The second season of Rome was nuts, I'm not sure how much of it was in a good way but lots of crazy going on.

[allstarchuck.livejournal.com]

Oh the Smallville season 8 finale. I honestly toyed with the idea of saying Bart was replaced with Inertia.

And oh god the whole Cole mini-arc in Chuck. Why. WHY would you introduce a character whose sole purpose is to be as Gary Stu-ish as possible and show up your main character? WHY the hell would you WANT your main character to look bad? Not to mention his magical ability to make Chuck act out of character. -_-

[remindmeofthe.livejournal.com]

Cal's canon is, narratively speaking, a mess, and his character is the one that gets screwed with the most by bad storytelling. His change of heart and decision to take charge of his life and career goes kind of like this: "Wow, I turned into an asshole when I didn't want to. I should stop being one now." And he does.

I believe the idea is that, after he seduces his uncle to get him to keep a secret (and other stuff, I think, it depends on what version of events you're going with here; the play went through some rewriting), it forces him to see how far he's fallen and how it's time for him to start making some decisions. But none of that is explored; I've had to do a lot of extrapolating and mining for clues and all that good stuff. So, when you see/hear it for the first time, all you get out of it is Cal suddenly developing a spine because the play has to end somehow.

It's a shame, really: great characters, wonderful performances in the original London show (I can't speak to any other productions, but I've heard good things about the American debut, too), some really good songs . . . and a whole bunch of really mediocre storytelling.

[loyaltyinmotion.livejournal.com]

Hmm, what beef could I possibly have with the Anita Blake books.
*stares blankly*

Maybe Anita using Jason only for sex while making doe eyes at Nathaniel when she knows he's jealous?

Or maybe the forced mind-rape and resulting orgy he was forced to be in?

Or perhaps the bringing him back to life after being tortured only to have bound him as her animal to call FOREVER.

Fuck, pick one.