Hm, I don't think its that credible to see fandom's insistence on "love" as being the opposite of "hate"/anger: in fandom the opposite of love is money. I think it's 99 percent a statement of noncommerciality, and that everyone knows that to be a transformational fan is always to admit that the source isn't perfect--on a spectrum from THEY BLEW IT BUT I AM GOING TO FIX IT to ITS REALLY GREAT EXCEPT THERE ISN'T ENOUGH OF IT, OR THEY DIDN'T EXPLORE THIS OR THAT ASPECT OF IT which is the mildest form of critique but still a critique. I think pro authors resent even those fans telling them they stopped too soon or answered the wrong questions, etc.
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Date: 2010-06-15 10:13 pm (UTC)