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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2458282" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>Well, that's why I think it's much ado about nothing. Fantasy fans are feeling slighted when the comments, placed in context, probably are not any more insulting than Rowlings saying she doesn't much like the fantasy genre, or at least her impression of what it is (which seems to be an ignorant--or at least outdated--impression.)</p><p></p><p>So she doesn't like that type of traditional fantasy. Whoop-de-doo. Neither do a lot of people. That's no skin off my back, even though I do like a great deal of it. Although, frankly, I agree with Rowlings in one respect; I took her comments on "subverting the fantasy genre" as taking some elements of the fantasy genre and doing something non-traditional with them. It was a bit of a too-grand claim to say she's doing something really unique there--I think authors have been "subverting" traditional fantasy conventions for decades, but a lot of my favorite stuff is just that type of "subverted fantasy" rather than cliched, traditional fantasy.</p><p></p><p>Again, all her comments indicate, in context, IMO, is that she's not very aware of where the fantasy genre is in general these days and she's not a big fan of fantasy cliches, so she's using fantasy elements in non-cliched ways. The fact that she thinks that she's doing something really unique or unusual just betrays her ignorance of the genre, not any type of malicious agenda against it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 2458282, member: 2205"] Well, that's why I think it's much ado about nothing. Fantasy fans are feeling slighted when the comments, placed in context, probably are not any more insulting than Rowlings saying she doesn't much like the fantasy genre, or at least her impression of what it is (which seems to be an ignorant--or at least outdated--impression.) So she doesn't like that type of traditional fantasy. Whoop-de-doo. Neither do a lot of people. That's no skin off my back, even though I do like a great deal of it. Although, frankly, I agree with Rowlings in one respect; I took her comments on "subverting the fantasy genre" as taking some elements of the fantasy genre and doing something non-traditional with them. It was a bit of a too-grand claim to say she's doing something really unique there--I think authors have been "subverting" traditional fantasy conventions for decades, but a lot of my favorite stuff is just that type of "subverted fantasy" rather than cliched, traditional fantasy. Again, all her comments indicate, in context, IMO, is that she's not very aware of where the fantasy genre is in general these days and she's not a big fan of fantasy cliches, so she's using fantasy elements in non-cliched ways. The fact that she thinks that she's doing something really unique or unusual just betrays her ignorance of the genre, not any type of malicious agenda against it. [/QUOTE]
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