I totally get that a lot of folks don't like season 8 and I'm not trying to change any minds.
There's nothing wrong with saying here's a pretty story that I liked better.
Why is it a big deal to me? When the issue gets presented as an exercise in analogical logic like you'd get on the GRE's, rather than an emotional reaction, I feel compelled to reply. Logic says rational people should see it this way. And since I don't see it that way I feel compelled to reply about why the logic does not work. It's also the case that this got started with a post that was saying a great deal more than just Promethea is an example of a comic I could get behind. If that had been the initial argument I've got no quarrel. And if you want to say that season 8 sucks the way lots of other sucky things have sucked I've got no problem. But more than that was being said, and I didn't agree with it and I made the big mistake of saying so. Then it prompted first eilowyn and then you to take the argument out of the comment section to the original post and put it out more publicly, and I felt compelled to defend my argument (since both of you were pretty much directly targetting my argument). What can I say? If people go out of their way to make sure everyone knows why they think my arguments don't hold up,, I have too much ego to not respond and defend myself (when, as in this case, I think my arguments are quite defensible). But lesson is learned: Do not reply to anti-season 8 arguments on LJ. They are all good arguments.
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Date: Jul. 14th, 2010 03:02 am (UTC)There's nothing wrong with saying here's a pretty story that I liked better.
Why is it a big deal to me? When the issue gets presented as an exercise in analogical logic like you'd get on the GRE's, rather than an emotional reaction, I feel compelled to reply. Logic says rational people should see it this way. And since I don't see it that way I feel compelled to reply about why the logic does not work. It's also the case that this got started with a post that was saying a great deal more than just Promethea is an example of a comic I could get behind. If that had been the initial argument I've got no quarrel. And if you want to say that season 8 sucks the way lots of other sucky things have sucked I've got no problem. But more than that was being said, and I didn't agree with it and I made the big mistake of saying so. Then it prompted first eilowyn and then you to take the argument out of the comment section to the original post and put it out more publicly, and I felt compelled to defend my argument (since both of you were pretty much directly targetting my argument). What can I say? If people go out of their way to make sure everyone knows why they think my arguments don't hold up,, I have too much ego to not respond and defend myself (when, as in this case, I think my arguments are quite defensible). But lesson is learned: Do not reply to anti-season 8 arguments on LJ. They are all good arguments.