and Marita Covarrubias was evil thus Laurie was evil thus I was.
Ack, this is common? I had a friend (notice the past tense) who hated Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish so much that she felt they should have quit the roles because the fans hated them. Did you get that? She didn't just hate the characters. She hated the actors. She wished harm to them. At first I thought she was joking/exaggerating. I soon learned that she wasn't.
I didn't realize this insanity extended to other characters - at least, not to the extent where people hated the actors too!
I am so, SO lucky that I fell in with relatively normal people when I began my adventures in fandom. XF was my first. I'd never heard of fandom until that time. If I'd seen the lunacy right off I would've shut off my computer and run into the night!
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Date: 2012-07-24 03:14 am (UTC)Ack, this is common? I had a friend (notice the past tense) who hated Robert Patrick and Annabeth Gish so much that she felt they should have quit the roles because the fans hated them. Did you get that? She didn't just hate the characters. She hated the actors. She wished harm to them. At first I thought she was joking/exaggerating. I soon learned that she wasn't.
I didn't realize this insanity extended to other characters - at least, not to the extent where people hated the actors too!
I am so, SO lucky that I fell in with relatively normal people when I began my adventures in fandom. XF was my first. I'd never heard of fandom until that time. If I'd seen the lunacy right off I would've shut off my computer and run into the night!