Date: 2013-04-08 03:26 pm (UTC)
ext_17485: (river; unicorns and rainbows)
I'd hazard a guess that you wouldn't think ever letting an episode go past without a plethora of complaints about who it's better than/not as good as Classic or not as good as RTD was terribly fun either

If someone was making regular reviews where they were comparing aspects of Moffat Who and finding them lacking compared to RTD, I'd stop reading those reviews. I wouldn't make a suggestion that they stop writing them. They aren't ranting (I assume, I'm not, so I'm assuming an inverse of my views here), they aren't making personal attacks, they're expressing a view in their own journal about what they think of the episode.

If they were comparing Moffat constantly unfavourably to classic, I'd keep reading. I do read stuff that does that. It can get tiresome, but, again, unless someone's gone seriously over a line (into, for example, personal attacks or racism) suggesting they make a content change to their own space is, I think, quite rude.

Saying I wish for a let up in constant RTD v Moffat warring =/= saying there should never be any comparisons, ever

Okay, but I don't see how my comments are 'warring' (and I assume you were at least partially referring to me reviews in your post? Were you referring to my post? If so, which of my comments did you consider 'warring' rather than legitimate comparison?). I'm making a fairly specific comparison and saying why I think one's better than the other.

Is absolutely portraying dislike of RTD v Moffat wars as mean-y RTD fans being mean.

Yeah, it is. I should've said something.

it's easier to allow the facade that your only critics are RTD-stans, rather than people who actually sometimes like and sometimes dislike both RTD and Moffat

But, from my perspective, almost all the crap I've got in fandom *is* from RTD-stans. I've had insults, harrassment, a delightful email campaign of hate, outright lies told about me. Personal, hurtful stuff not because I attacked in a similar way but because I didn't like fictional characters and stories in the right way. So, yeah, people who read my journal are going to swing that way, since that's what's happened before.

And this exageration and selective presentation is very much symptomatic of sectarian fannish thinking and it's horrible that saying anything about it gets you pulled into the crossfire.

What? Not replying sufficiently diplomatically to one comment in my journal is your symptom here? Ffs. I'm am clearly pissed off in this post. I have explained that it is *not* aimed primarily at you, but at a comment left in my journal ranting at me and not giving me the opportunity to reply.

And I don't like this attitude that we all have to play nice and not say anything *too* negative, or we have to be *balanced* in our negativity or it's being horrid and/or a personal attack on the fans of the era we're being critical of. Or that it's tiresome and immature to have strong preferences. I don't like being told I'm on one side of a 'war' that I don't feel any part of, or that I should self-censor my thoughts on a television programme because someone else thinks I'm...what? firing torpedoes or something?

You got "pulled into the crossfire" (again, I'm not 'at war' with anyone, I'm expressing my opinion of my show in my journal in the same what I've been doing for seven years) because you made a post, a part of which I felt was aimed at me. I made a responding post, a part of which was aimed at you (and surely you can tell the bits that aren't? It does get pretty specific. No-one is going to read those bits and look at your post and actually think I'm talking about you) and I'm accused of casting you as a villain, of exaggeration and selective presentation, being party to a fannish war, fannish sectariansim and so on.

You suggest I not write about something. I say, no, I'm going to keep doing that, I'm annoyed at that suggestion, and maybe you should skip the review. The other bits, as I have explained quite a few times, are not about you.
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