SOMEONE IS WRONG ON THE INTERNET!

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I need to just back away from the internets tonight. Everywhere I turn, someone is Wrong and Needs to Be Told.

For one thing, I need to stay away from anon memes. It's all fun and games when it's LOLcats and "Which Doctor would you shag?", but then someone has to go and say Amy Pond has poor characterization. I mean...what? Of all the criticisms I've heard of Series 5 in general and Amy in particular, poor characterization? What? What? You keep using that word: I do not think it means what you think it means.

Also: people are allowed to enjoy whatever television programs they want, right?

*sigh* I have started, and then (wisely) backed away from so many replies tonight...

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But anon memes and other irrational parts of the internet are great for spurring these kinds of discussions! (Not that I'm encouraging you to keep injuring your brain with them, but some good has come of it. (-;)

I am notorious for backing arguments all the way up to their definitions. I think I picked it up from one of my classes, which (while not really named such) turned into a class on Shakespeare and the OED. We were encouraged to pick up and drag anything we felt like back to the dictionary and flog it. (I wrote an entire paper on a switch from "the" to "this" in a line from one folio version of King Lear to the next. It still stands as one of my favorite classes ever). I think it's fun but... yeah, most people don't. It's the sort of thing that a lot of people inevitably complain about after taking a cinema appreciation class or something, saying it takes all the "fun" out of enjoying things... like it's a miserable existence to have to think about why you do or do not enjoy something (and to admit that it's not always the author's fault that you don't like it). (-; But I'm beyond help this point, so I have no choice but to enjoy putting things in different contexts to see how they fit. And I can't help that Moffat vs. the fans on companions is a fantastic jungle of intention vs. perception vs. perception of intention vs. intention of perception. ^_^

(My friends roll their eyes and sigh at me, too. Also they've started phrasing their questions as to whether I like a show or something very carefully to keep me from noting and explaining its "issues" as well. My typical endorsement of a show is "Yeah, it's a lot of fun and you should totally watch it, but watch out for...")