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Current Talk '03 II / Re:Horrible...just horrible
« on: December 16, 2003, 03:46:38 PM »Perhaps at this late date we're impatient with the behaviour of the characters for no other reason than that we are an impatient society.
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it's WE who change....and our ability to appreciate what we're looking at changes with us.
The show we all claim to love remains the same.
I'd be more than willing to accept that theory (because it's one that's extremely well thought out and could really explain things) if it wasn't for the fact that many fans seem to fall all over themselves to explain away the least little bit of cloddish or annoying behavior when it comes to characters like Barn or Ang or 1897/1969/1970Quentin. They'll write endlessly about their inner motivations to explain away anything and everything they do. However, many of the other characters (think other major characters like Carolyn, or Liz, or Roger - or minor ones like 1970PTQuentin, or Morgan, or Catherine, or Bramwell) don't fair as well, and, well, that isn't exactly fair, now is it?