The difficulty I have with fandoms is that whenever the story doesn't go the way a particular fan wants it to, they act as if the writer did them a personal injury. But here's the thing? The writer can't please everyone. A portion of the fandom is always going to be disgruntled with the direction the story is going. As Spikejojo points out below, if Dawn had died in Chosen, a portion of the fandom would have been unhappy and thought it didn't work and the writer had failed them.
This is generally speaking, true of all works of art, or so I've noticed. Go pick any best-selling or popular book, tv series or movie, google reviews, and for every good review, you'll find one that blasts the book or movie or television series for epic fail. Some people will love what you wrote and it will work perfectly for them, others will think it unbelievable, and that it doesn't work at all.
This happened to me when I wrote and self-published my novel. While the two book clubs that read it, enjoyed it, and various others did, I did get two very nasty and disgruntled reviewers who claimed it was unbelievable and didn't work, etc, etc. What I found reassuring in a way, is that I noticed this also happened to Donna Tartt with the Goldfinch, Joss Whedon, JK Rowling (yes, there are people who think Harry Potter sucks), etc.
It's just impossible to please everyone. People just think too differently, I guess.
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Date: 2016-08-14 12:41 pm (UTC)This is generally speaking, true of all works of art, or so I've noticed. Go pick any best-selling or popular book, tv series or movie, google reviews, and for every good review, you'll find one that blasts the book or movie or television series for epic fail. Some people will love what you wrote and it will work perfectly for them, others will think it unbelievable, and that it doesn't work at all.
This happened to me when I wrote and self-published my novel. While the two book clubs that read it, enjoyed it, and various others did, I did get two very nasty and disgruntled reviewers who claimed it was unbelievable and didn't work, etc, etc. What I found reassuring in a way, is that I noticed this also happened to Donna Tartt with the Goldfinch, Joss Whedon, JK Rowling (yes, there are people who think Harry Potter sucks), etc.
It's just impossible to please everyone. People just think too differently, I guess.