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Being in character's not good enough..?
Jun. 2nd, 2014 10:32 pmThis is....odd.
I got railblasted recently for the way I see Peter and the way I portray him in my drawings. Apparently my take on the little guy is too all over the place and emotionally stunted, and goofy. However, my take on Peter is based directly on the first couple of seasons of Real Ghostbusters where he IS all over the place and emotionally stunted and a slart aleck slacker and goofy. I brought this up WITH proof in episodes of every example I made (Thank you Youtube), and after arguing back and forth with this person, I discovered what the problem was.
The problem was that this person hadn't watched the show, outside of a maybe few episodes back in the day, but nothing concrete enough to resonate with them. They had been introduced to Real Ghostbusters through fan fiction, and adopted the stories as canon...even though they were pretty much the opposite of the show, except for maybe the last couple of seasons when ABC watered it down. As a result, they saw THEIR viewpoint as canon, and even though my take on Peter is directly based off the show's first and syndicated runs, I was the one who was incorrect.
(I also managed to insult this person by referring to Peter as a cartoon character--WHICH HE IS--but I digress, and that's for another entry.)
Anyway, has anyone else had this happen to them? Had someone else view fanon or fanfiction as canon to the point where the show it's based off is "wrong"? I mean in my eyes, if you're going to be a fan of a show or cartoon, be a fan of the show or cartoon! You like someone's fan fiction, that's great! But you need to REALLY watch the show and get a feel for how the characters really are if you're going to call yourself an actual fan.
Like...with me. I've read some good Sentinel fan fiction. I know people who can write passionate, detailed stories about these two characters that I can really get into. I like the stories. I don't mind reading them. But I'm not going to call myself a fan of the Sentinel. Why? Because I've watched the Sentinel, and in my opinion it was just another weird boring little UPN show. I'm not going to deny the fan fiction is good, but I'm not a fan of the show itself, and I'm not going to call myself such solely by hinging everything on fan fiction.
But I digress. What do you guys think? Is this a common thing in fandom? Discuss!
I got railblasted recently for the way I see Peter and the way I portray him in my drawings. Apparently my take on the little guy is too all over the place and emotionally stunted, and goofy. However, my take on Peter is based directly on the first couple of seasons of Real Ghostbusters where he IS all over the place and emotionally stunted and a slart aleck slacker and goofy. I brought this up WITH proof in episodes of every example I made (Thank you Youtube), and after arguing back and forth with this person, I discovered what the problem was.
The problem was that this person hadn't watched the show, outside of a maybe few episodes back in the day, but nothing concrete enough to resonate with them. They had been introduced to Real Ghostbusters through fan fiction, and adopted the stories as canon...even though they were pretty much the opposite of the show, except for maybe the last couple of seasons when ABC watered it down. As a result, they saw THEIR viewpoint as canon, and even though my take on Peter is directly based off the show's first and syndicated runs, I was the one who was incorrect.
(I also managed to insult this person by referring to Peter as a cartoon character--WHICH HE IS--but I digress, and that's for another entry.)
Anyway, has anyone else had this happen to them? Had someone else view fanon or fanfiction as canon to the point where the show it's based off is "wrong"? I mean in my eyes, if you're going to be a fan of a show or cartoon, be a fan of the show or cartoon! You like someone's fan fiction, that's great! But you need to REALLY watch the show and get a feel for how the characters really are if you're going to call yourself an actual fan.
Like...with me. I've read some good Sentinel fan fiction. I know people who can write passionate, detailed stories about these two characters that I can really get into. I like the stories. I don't mind reading them. But I'm not going to call myself a fan of the Sentinel. Why? Because I've watched the Sentinel, and in my opinion it was just another weird boring little UPN show. I'm not going to deny the fan fiction is good, but I'm not a fan of the show itself, and I'm not going to call myself such solely by hinging everything on fan fiction.
But I digress. What do you guys think? Is this a common thing in fandom? Discuss!
