I expect some whitewashing from fandom - as you say, it's incredibly common - but the media worries me. ...Well, it always does, but more than... Well.
Fannish opinion is fannish opinion, i.e. limited to a group of people, but the media is presumed to reflect opinions of the voting populace at large, and definitely influences same. So yes, more worrying.
The man is a mean person on the side of good, that is the point.
Yes. That was so unusual and original about him. He wasn't a rough diamond a la Han Solo who'd be sure to straighten out and be loved by all our heroes once the life saving happened, he was. In many ways heroic, but in just as many ways a jerk, and one with a high body count in his past.
I love the claims that James is a far more horrible person. Because being a jerk in school is so much worse than killing people.
And don't forget Lily is a far more horrible person and not deserving of Snape's love because she married James. Totally ignoring that their fallout wasn't about James whom she at that point still disliked but about his hanging out with a bunch of racists who didn't consider her, her family and the general population worth living. You could tell that the moment where Severus completely blew it was when he said that he didn't think of her that way. It was the equivalent of telling a black girl "well, I'd never call you 'nigger', but you have to admit that all the other blacks totally deserve it".
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Fannish opinion is fannish opinion, i.e. limited to a group of people, but the media is presumed to reflect opinions of the voting populace at large, and definitely influences same. So yes, more worrying.
The man is a mean person on the side of good, that is the point.
Yes. That was so unusual and original about him. He wasn't a rough diamond a la Han Solo who'd be sure to straighten out and be loved by all our heroes once the life saving happened, he was. In many ways heroic, but in just as many ways a jerk, and one with a high body count in his past.
I love the claims that James is a far more horrible person. Because being a jerk in school is so much worse than killing people.
And don't forget Lily is a far more horrible person and not deserving of Snape's love because she married James. Totally ignoring that their fallout wasn't about James whom she at that point still disliked but about his hanging out with a bunch of racists who didn't consider her, her family and the general population worth living. You could tell that the moment where Severus completely blew it was when he said that he didn't think of her that way. It was the equivalent of telling a black girl "well, I'd never call you 'nigger', but you have to admit that all the other blacks totally deserve it".