If you can understand the removal of Ghostbusters, please explain it to me. There’s nothing entertaining about that part of the chapter any more.
I mean, I do know that some people in the reviews were unhappy with how ‘now it’s a songfic’, but others liked it—I certainly did, it was funny to imagine—and at least the scene made sense. While now you have people just shouting Harry Potter! out of the blue, and basically everything happening and everyone reacting exactly as before for little apparent reason.
I agree that the new scene seems very awkward, though I’m not sure whether I would have thought so if I weren’t already familiar with the old version.
Eliezer has said that some people would have “massively bad associations” to songs in fanfics. I don’t read fan fiction in general, so I have no idea what he’s specifically referring to. But, err, given the interactions I’ve had with fandom people, I can definitely imagine them being utterly unable to see past their preconceived notions and snap judgments to logically evaluate a given scene on its own merits and subtleties.
If you can understand the removal of Ghostbusters, please explain it to me. There’s nothing entertaining about that part of the chapter any more.
I mean, I do know that some people in the reviews were unhappy with how ‘now it’s a songfic’, but others liked it—I certainly did, it was funny to imagine—and at least the scene made sense. While now you have people just shouting Harry Potter! out of the blue, and basically everything happening and everyone reacting exactly as before for little apparent reason.
I agree that the new scene seems very awkward, though I’m not sure whether I would have thought so if I weren’t already familiar with the old version.
Eliezer has said that some people would have “massively bad associations” to songs in fanfics. I don’t read fan fiction in general, so I have no idea what he’s specifically referring to. But, err, given the interactions I’ve had with fandom people, I can definitely imagine them being utterly unable to see past their preconceived notions and snap judgments to logically evaluate a given scene on its own merits and subtleties.
He got a LOT of complaints in the reviews about the Ghostbusters song.