I think the people who do the Breaking Dawn sporkings at Das_Sporking are losing it.

[redwoodalchan]

I finally got around to reading their last two entries...and they've sunk to the level of outright telling you how to interpret the characters! Seriously, they openly admitted that they are actively trying to make you hate Alice and Renesmee!

Like, okay, fine, if you don't like Alice or Renesmee, that's your prerogative. It's not like it's news to me that they're terrible characters. But don't insult your readers by telling them that they have to hate them too, or worse, hate them for the EXACT SAME REASONS YOU DO! Because when it comes to discussions of media or...anything really, there are few things I hate more than feeling like someone's telling me what to think.

And yes, I get that internet commentary kind-of is telling you what to think most of the time, but not in so many words--much of it at least tries to back up the points it makes with solid examples and ultimately lets you make the call as to whether you agree with it or not. At any rate, there's a pretty pronounced difference between "This thing here sucks and here's why" and "You should feel the exact same way about this that I do because I am Always Right." It's an attitude that I don't take from Suethors and hack writers, and I don't take it from the people who snark at Suethors and hack writers either.

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[guardians_song]

"Are losing it"? Current tense? :\

Yeah, I tend to... not read the entries at Das Sporking most of the time. I seriously preferred Zelda Queen's mockery, no matter how ~in-depth~ this Breaking Dawn spork is. At least when she complained about a point, she usually complained for a sentence or two rather than devoting a page and a GIF to every. Single. Gripe. She had with the thing.

"At any rate, there's a pretty pronounced difference between "This thing here sucks and here's why" and "You should feel the exact same way about this that I do because I am Always Right." It's an attitude that I don't take from Suethors and hack writers, and I don't take it from the people who snark at Suethors and hack writers either."
*MASSIVE APPLAUSE*

I'd say the same at Das Sporking, except... well, all the comments seem to agree with the BD Sporking, and I have no interest in getting dogpiled by a few dozen people yelling that I surely must be a sociopath to not utterly hate these characters or whatever. :\ Echo chambers are excruciating.

EDIT: *sigh* Also, I just read one of the posts I skipped, and -

"There’s no one left but the Volturi for us to root for at this point."
...You are SERIOUSLY saying that in the middle of a YOU MURDERING BASTARDS count?
Seriously?
Irony, much?

[shamanicshaymin]

Seriously. As soon as I got to the "If you don't hate Alice, then I hate you too" part, I boggled for a few seconds, then threw my hands up and said, "Welp! I'm done!" It's gone from intelligent discussion of how problematic the books are to, well... your basic obnoxious Twihater spewage.

I just hope someone calls out Mervin on this ("Dude, you're being as immature as the characters you hate."), but it's unlikely anyone would do it without being dogpiled and demonized. :/