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Jun. 26th, 2003 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccastareyesWell, I got work straightened out, and turned in my homework today. And did actual work. I'm nearly finished inking, and I'll start CGing tomorrow. Cassie's going out of town, so I'll be around for the weekend, which gives me more time to get stuff done.
I saw the Cowboy Bebop movie in the Ross (the University's theater) -- I really liked it, even though all I know about Cowboy Bebop is from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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marysues. Sad... but Ed is the cutest thing ever.
Speaking ofmarysues, they're going on the canon character Sues trip again. I don't really like that. In my opinion, a canon character can be a two-dimensional stereotype... but that's just a bad writing job. My personal definition of a Mary Sue is a two-dimensional character who warps canon and is solely an instrument of the author to alter the world to her wishes. I suppose technically an original author could use a character to be her instrument, but it's a very clumsy method -- like the difference between a sword and a scapel.
The point of the matter, with the canon altering abilities gone, it's harder to tell if a character is a Sue... While the pretty half-elf, half-angel, half-dragon, half-unicorn, half-mermaid, half-fairy Dragonslayer Digidestined Sailor Scout student of Hogwarts who is in wuv with Legolas (I ought to dare someone to write a fic like that...) is obviously a Sue, who's to say the competent swordswoman is, or the skilled sorceress?
Someone once said ondeleterius that Nymphodora Tonks was JK Rowling's response to MAry Sue. Look at the situation... a character with a ridiculous name, a neat and rare power, adn a highly skilled job. Yet, she has a real flaw (she is as clumsy as Amelia and Martina's lovechild) and is a likeable character. Hell, if the main character doesn't have a bit of the Mary Sue/Marty Stu in him/her just to set him/her above the crowd as a hero, I'd say someone isn't doing their job. It's just when you go overboard, you eventually end up with a perfect cardboard cutout of a character, for which nothing is a chalange anymore? And who wants that?
I saw the Cowboy Bebop movie in the Ross (the University's theater) -- I really liked it, even though all I know about Cowboy Bebop is from
crisi83, AnimeIowa, or marysues. Sad... but Ed is the cutest thing ever. Speaking of
marysues, they're going on the canon character Sues trip again. I don't really like that. In my opinion, a canon character can be a two-dimensional stereotype... but that's just a bad writing job. My personal definition of a Mary Sue is a two-dimensional character who warps canon and is solely an instrument of the author to alter the world to her wishes. I suppose technically an original author could use a character to be her instrument, but it's a very clumsy method -- like the difference between a sword and a scapel. The point of the matter, with the canon altering abilities gone, it's harder to tell if a character is a Sue... While the pretty half-elf, half-angel, half-dragon, half-unicorn, half-mermaid, half-fairy Dragonslayer Digidestined Sailor Scout student of Hogwarts who is in wuv with Legolas (I ought to dare someone to write a fic like that...) is obviously a Sue, who's to say the competent swordswoman is, or the skilled sorceress?
Someone once said on
deleterius that Nymphodora Tonks was JK Rowling's response to MAry Sue. Look at the situation... a character with a ridiculous name, a neat and rare power, adn a highly skilled job. Yet, she has a real flaw (she is as clumsy as Amelia and Martina's lovechild) and is a likeable character. Hell, if the main character doesn't have a bit of the Mary Sue/Marty Stu in him/her just to set him/her above the crowd as a hero, I'd say someone isn't doing their job. It's just when you go overboard, you eventually end up with a perfect cardboard cutout of a character, for which nothing is a chalange anymore? And who wants that? 
