We could have had it aaallllll- pet peeve fandoms

have i mentioned my hatelove for harry potter yet.

Because Harry fucking Potter. I love Harry Potter. A lot. BUT HOLY SHIT. Especially the recent stuff. HOLY SHIT.

 

I think that's the most commonly-cited one in this whole thread. And something like the last 5+ pages of the HP thread are bitching about the various ways it LET US DOWN. :::PPP

 

rowling why. WHY ROWLING. WHHHHHHYYYYYYYYY.

 

(I made the thread)

 

I saw some people upthread mention Ar Tonelico and I agree so much. I love 2. I love the characterisation, the worldbuilding, the music, and for that I could overlook the terrible translation and the more blatantly fanservicey bits.

Then I got my hands on 3 and was so horribly disappointed. It was like a black hole of terrible fanservice from which the only thing that escaped was (admittedly very good) music.

Also aSoIaF. I love political fantasy but the combination of the unrelenting horribleness of the setting and the way most of the characters I'm actually interested in have been killed off, sidelined, or been tyrion has just left me drained nearly of any interest i once had.

 

I think I know exactly which part of the Cosmosphere you're talking about. I nearly put down the game there and then just because it was so disrespectful compared to 2's cosmospheres and ugh, I'm getting angry now just thinking about it.

I did enjoy the endgame but it didn't make up for everything else.

 

okay has anyone else ever read Clan Of The Cavebear, and the Earth's Children series, by Jean M Aule?

because holy shit that series tanked so fantastically. so majestically. i have never seen another series shit itself with such wild, unselfconscious enthusiasm. it's like if harry potter started with the sorcerer's stone and by book four was my immortal—and then, somehow, there's three more books to further devolve.

 

I've never read it, but I've heard of it. My main associations with it are 1) my favorite character in Chrono Trigger is named for the main character and 2) I once saw an elaborate theory that all Mary Sues are the descendants of said main character, who is the progenitress of Suedom and Sue of Sues.

 

Spoiler: earth's children spoilers

i loved the thing in the first book with the neanderthals sharing their ancestor's memories and was extremely disappointed when it didn't come up again in the next six books!

like, goddammit, that was literally the most awesome idea in the series! the most awesome idea in the series, but it had to become about ayla and jondalar's romance instead.

and we never got to see what happened to ayla's first kid either, once ayla left.

just... i really wish that series had more neanderthals.

 

and speaking of pet peeve fandoms, here's a really weird example from me: red vs. blue.

why it is a weird example, you ask?

'cause it's the first four or five seasons that are the pet peeve for me, not the later ones. like, i don't hate those seasons (i actually did think they were funny) but i had difficulty with understanding them, and the animation wasn't that great.

the later seasons i loved 'cause, well, of church's arc and how i identified with him. and the freelancers and the ais and stuff. lots of feelsy, plotty stuff!

 

honestly i'd believe it. last i checked, ayla was the tallest blondest most beautiful woman in all of neolithic france, and she could talk to her two horses, and she had a pet wolf she could also talk to that didn't have any aggression or aversion issues with other humans somehow, and she was also the best flint knapper, sling-hunter, tracker, tanner, home-goods weaver and carver, and she was also a phenomenal herbalist and surgeon, and she was an ordained priestess in at least one religion i remember offhand and a shaman in another. oh! and she was somehow the only person in the world that had actually figured out where babies come from. her husband wasn't quite as accomplished but he had a prehensile dick the size of a coke can, going by descriptions of their monster fuck sessions.

 

lol somehow that didn't seem that bizarre when i was reading the book, but now i'm like, "yeah, that is ridiculous"

which is basically the thing that happens with dreams - they seem perfectly reasonable and real when you're sleeping but are shown to be clearly fake and outrageous when you wake up

 

oh my god, I read that book! when I was way too young to read that book. mostly I was bored by it, tbh.

edit: that is, I was bored by the sex scenes. I don't remember much about the book, but the plot interested me at least a little more.

 

SIGHS SO MUCH ABOUT MY MAIN FANDOM. SO MUCH. Though as @keltena knows, my full-game AU fanfic does take that spoilered issue with full seriousness rather than playing it for a gimmick. The Abyss writers, in general, were a lot of people who almost grasped PTSD but didn't quite know how to execute it even if they knew it should be occurring. And I say this as an Asch player because he also kind of gets the snub in that regard - should definitely have PTSD, the writers kind of... failed at anything more than a vague implication of it.

(Mind, the amount you have to squint for Asch's characterization in general is one of MY pet peeves.)

A+ I would read it.

 

Joins the yelling about His Dark Materials, because why. That last book, why.
also some of the rwby yelling, and the eragon yelling, but adding in Tortall Universe yelling, because fuck a bunch of those romantic subplots.

 

TORTALL YELLING IS MY FAVORITE YELLING

 

I read four of the Tortall series in middle and high school and would have liked all of them much better with the romantic subplots excised.

 

YAY, I AM VERY HAPPY
what are your particular yell-y bits?

YES THANK YOU

 

(My sibling, incidentally, had an alternate suggestion on reread for... the series with Alanna's daughter, I forget the name. Namely aging up one of the female characters by a few years and making her the love interest. Unfortunately it's been so long since I read it that I can't remember any of the details.)