Sorry about the knees - been commisserating with my mother who got a torn minscus on the tennis court and is getting halcogn treatments next week. And I think back in 96 or 97 - I ended up with tendentitis in both knees - what solved the problem was physical therapy on my back - oddly the back caused the knee problem
In my case, I just tripped going down the staircase and took a Chevy Chase style pratfall. Softball season is over, and I'm actually going to sit out the Alumni League football, so that's good. Historically, most of my injuries have been secondary - me injuring myself worse while trying to play through a minor injury instead of getting prescribed rest. Because I am dumb.
the characters I've seen bashed the most are oddly the ones that have also been idealized the most - Angel, Buffy, Spike.
I think this goes hand-in-hand. Idealization begets contrarian-reaction. Beyond which, any character that is idealized to a large extent will also probably be demonized in equal part. There's a limit though - half the people who would demonize just as much as another might idealize probably just drop out of the fandom.
Beyond that, though, largely just probably because of Shipper wars, I've always seen a lot of Riley-bashing as he gets caught up in being an obstacle to hardcore fans of both B/S and B/A...
I want you to root for them a bit
Yeah - that's a good key. Ideally, if I were writing a show I'd want to have it come across where there was something of value that every character could teach each of the other characters - and equally that there'd be something of value that each character needed to learn from each other character. At least, I'd like viewers to be able to take that away without having to do contortions to think it. (And then I would create a ridiculous character that really, nobody could learn anything from, and this character would be a cautionary tale, until unexplored depths would be revealed. At which point I would license the image on lunchboxes and make oodles of money...)
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In my case, I just tripped going down the staircase and took a Chevy Chase style pratfall. Softball season is over, and I'm actually going to sit out the Alumni League football, so that's good. Historically, most of my injuries have been secondary - me injuring myself worse while trying to play through a minor injury instead of getting prescribed rest. Because I am dumb.
the characters I've seen bashed the most are oddly the ones that have also been idealized the most - Angel, Buffy, Spike.
I think this goes hand-in-hand. Idealization begets contrarian-reaction. Beyond which, any character that is idealized to a large extent will also probably be demonized in equal part. There's a limit though - half the people who would demonize just as much as another might idealize probably just drop out of the fandom.
Beyond that, though, largely just probably because of Shipper wars, I've always seen a lot of Riley-bashing as he gets caught up in being an obstacle to hardcore fans of both B/S and B/A...
I want you to root for them a bit
Yeah - that's a good key. Ideally, if I were writing a show I'd want to have it come across where there was something of value that every character could teach each of the other characters - and equally that there'd be something of value that each character needed to learn from each other character. At least, I'd like viewers to be able to take that away without having to do contortions to think it. (And then I would create a ridiculous character that really, nobody could learn anything from, and this character would be a cautionary tale, until unexplored depths would be revealed. At which point I would license the image on lunchboxes and make oodles of money...)