There are a number of things from ACD canon that people take for granted because of certain writers who shall not be named, but are incredibly popular and honestly, write pretty good historical romance. But they could just change the names to Leo and Harry and call it original :/
I have an odd example of this, actually, and it sets me apart from the rest of the fandom because I'm the only one who likes it. (Get ready for a reasonably long and possibly boring explanation).
See, the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine doesn't really have any relationship with any comic prior to it, except the one it was based on, which was almost entirely regarded as professional fanon. I can see why, because it was poorly executed. The movie gets even more dismissed because Wolverine is just not that tall. (He's 5'3" canonically, if anyone cares).
But the thing is, the actual storyline of the movie makes a whole bunch of sense. It makes a great deal more sense than a lot of other things, explains a largely unexplained rivalry with Sabretooth (they're brothers. This upset the slashers no end because eww, incest. Personally, I think it kind of makes the whole thing better because it is at least 100% more messed up, but w/e). It just... explains things better. Basically everyone else thinks its an awful explanation.
TL;DR - Wolverine fandom is messed up and kind of blinded by shiny things.
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Date: 2011-05-26 05:27 am (UTC)I have an odd example of this, actually, and it sets me apart from the rest of the fandom because I'm the only one who likes it. (Get ready for a reasonably long and possibly boring explanation).
See, the movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine doesn't really have any relationship with any comic prior to it, except the one it was based on, which was almost entirely regarded as professional fanon. I can see why, because it was poorly executed. The movie gets even more dismissed because Wolverine is just not that tall. (He's 5'3" canonically, if anyone cares).
But the thing is, the actual storyline of the movie makes a whole bunch of sense. It makes a great deal more sense than a lot of other things, explains a largely unexplained rivalry with Sabretooth (they're brothers. This upset the slashers no end because eww, incest. Personally, I think it kind of makes the whole thing better because it is at least 100% more messed up, but w/e). It just... explains things better. Basically everyone else thinks its an awful explanation.
TL;DR - Wolverine fandom is messed up and kind of blinded by shiny things.