No, I don't think it was peer pressure. They even made t-shirts that had PJs picture on it and read something like "wanted: for ruining our books" or something along those lines. I mean, they are all nice people, I like them, but there are times when I feel I need to turn around and walk away slowly.
What gets me, too, is that they complain about how the movies differ from the books, but yet they adore slash writing and stories. Now call me crazy, but doesn't slash get away from the original books too? Isn't slash yet another person's interpretation just as the movies are PJs interpretation?
One of the people adores the whole idea of Sam and Frodo, but when I asked her if she'd read The Mists of Avalon she said that she hated it because it "gayed up" her beloved Lancelot. ??? Ummmm... I didn't really know what to say without getting in an argument about that one. How can you acuse a book of "gaying up" a character when you "gay up" other characters on your own?
Interpretation is interpretation... and interpretations can lead to great discussions, but I had one-sided bashing.
Perhaps it's just like that old "actors and a lightbulb" joke, only you can insert just regular "people" in place of the actor. How many people does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, and 10 million others watching and saying that they could've done it better.
There is also this convention I was helping out with, too, and the people on the committee are strongly purist... but the bad part is, they don't let those who like the movies really have a say. They want to make the convention mainly book orientated, which is fine, but then they bash who they call "fangirls", or "people who like the movie." How dare any of us like these movies? It obviously makes us a lower life-form or it must mean that we have no brain cells. We are all fans, there shouldn't be two separate categories of fans. Book fans are not better than movie fans and movie fans are not better than book fans. We're all appreciating the same thing, when it comes to the core of it, really.
Wow, I think I'm going to turn this into the "Tigerlily's rant thread." Haha.
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