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[skygiants]

Meme thieving time!

Name a fandom, and I'll give you the scoop on at least three of my unpopular opinions related to that fandom.

I think you guys can guess pretty well what I know, and if I don't know the fandom, I will totally make some up. John Sheppard does not love Rodney; his true love is a piece of cheese!

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[kiarasayre.livejournal.com]

Princess Tutu! (Are there any unpopular opinions in that fandom? I mean, my experience has been lurking, but it seems to be pretty friendly and snugly.)

*SPOILERS LURK IN THIS COMMENT*

[skygiants]

From my experience thus far the Princess Tutu LJ comm has been kind of amazingly wankless - well, maybe not amazingly given its relatively small size, but friendly and snugglyness does seem to be the norm.

Uh, so anyway I will give some opinions! Possibly they will be disagreed with by somebody . . .?

1. Rue is an awesome and fascinating character! This is not an opinion I have ever really seen someone disagree with, although I understand that there are a lot of Rue-bashing fics out there somewhere, which makes me very sad. Fortunately they're not in my corner of the internet and therefore I can pretend they don't exist.

2. However, I also believe that post-canon Rue and Mytho is in no way a happy-ever-after kind of relationship. I mean, the series pretty explicitly says that Mytho still has raven's blood hanging out in his veins at the end, and Rue obviously does too. Put two raven-infected people together to form a support group, and what you are probably going to get is a lot of really unhealthy codependence and emotional abuse. Which is not to say I don't ship it, because I totally do - I kind of think the fact that it's so messed up makes it extra interesting to consider.

3. But my secret confession is that even though I totally ship Rue/Mytho, and also think postseries Pique/Autor would be awesome, I kind of ship Rue/Autor even though I can't see how it would ever actually work.

4. Pique is the sanest person in Kinkan Town.

Re: *SPOILERS LURK IN THIS COMMENT*

[blacksheep91.livejournal.com]

2. Part of me finds that rather badass, and also calls to mind many potentially crazy shenanigans~

3. You're probably not the first to think that. (Not that I ship Mytho/Fakir or Ahiru/Rue a little bit. Because I don't. ......*cough* Nope. >_>; *whistles*)

[oneechan19.livejournal.com]

Howl's Flying Castle!

[skygiants]

I don't even think this has enough of a fandom to have opinions that are unpopular!

1. What makes Howl and Sophie work as a couple is that they are both flawed, difficult people. I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but Miyazaki certainly doesn't seem to be a fan of it. /obligatory movie bitching

2. I don't think Megan is all that bad! I think she is probably shown to her greatest disadvantage when she's interacting with Howl, because of their personality types, and also we only see her through Sophie's eyes and Sophie is biased. But as an occasionally-exasperated older sister myself I can sympathize with her. I would probably be annoyed if my little brother moved to fantasyland without telling me too.

3. A lot of people don't like Castle in the Sky as well as Howl's Moving Castle; I agree that it's not quite as good, but I enjoy it almost as much. Cranky genie Howl! Abdullah thinking Sophie is a pain! PRINCE JUSTIN/BEATRICE, which is THE BEST OTP!

[ryanitenebrae.livejournal.com]

^^ Avatar: The Last Airbender?

[skygiants]

Ooh, I can do unpopular opinions for this one!

1. I don't actually ship Katara with anyone in the series, and I certainly don't feel the need to join one side or the other of the Great Katara/Aang vs. Katara/Zuko debate. She's thirteen or fourteen and about to become the super-hot heroine of the world; she has plenty of time to meet other guys! Or go on a nice low-pressure date with Haru and his 'stache or something. I like Zuko/Mai, and if I ship Aang with anyone it's pigtails girl from the Oracle episode.

2. I LOVE MAI. I also love Ty Lee but I feel like that is less unpopular? I think they are both great characters and among my favorites in the series, and I wish that we'd seen more of them in the buildup to the finale.

3. Relatedly: it is my firm opinion that the Boiling Rock duology are the best episodes of the series. Definitely better than the finale, which I loved, of course, because it was THE AVATAR FINALE, but thought was actually kind of crammed and didn't address some of the stuff I wanted it to.

4. Ursa is a lot more than Zuko's wonderful loving mother. For a start, she's one of very few people in the series that we know has actually killed - and, more than that, murdered in cold blood. Killing in the Avatarverse is a big deal, and to me that implies a level of moral ambiguity and stone cold badassery that I find really interesting and can't remember ever seeing anyone talk about.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

I think you need to make something up about Hetalia. (And John Sheppard does love a piece of cheese. Its name is Goudette, and they're having a commitment ceremony this August.)

[skygiants]

(I KNOW, RIGHT? Their love is so pure and true! If possibly a bit smelly.)

Okay, here are my DEEPLY CONSIDERED opinions:

1. Australia/Canada is clearly OTP! As far as I know Australia has not yet appeared in the strips, but MAYBE that is just because Australia is too busy pining for Canada? It is what I believe!

2. Sweden has never thought to mention to anyone that Sweden is actually a cross-dressed lady, which in no way diminishes Sweden's tremendous badassery. What, as far as I know there is no evidence against this!

3. England only loves America for his tiny foul-mouthed alien, who is obviously THE BEST character in the series.

(4. If I were doing serious opinions here, I would mention how much it troubles me that as far as I know canon completely ignores Africa, South America, and South/southeast Asia. Fortunately I am not doing serious opinions!)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Let me see...

Georgette Heyer.

[skygiants]

Is there even a Georgette Heyer fandom? I guess I can fill this out with Do Not Ships . . .

1. The Grand Sophy: I don't ship Sophy/Charles! Not even a little bit. Actually I kind of ship Sophy/Lord Charlbury, even though their elopement is a total fake. I also do not ship Richard/Pen except in a platonic way.

2. Robin from The Masqueraders is really entertaining, but he's also kind of a jerk. Although Prudence's awesome of course makes up for this.

3. I've seen Venetia described often as one of her best, but I'm really not nearly as fond of it as I am of most of her others that I've read.

4. You can never have too many mischievous/bumbling/idiotic/scheming/name your descriptor Georgette Heyer little brothers. This is probably not actually an unpopular opinion at all, but.

[blacksheep91.livejournal.com]

Lets go a little old school: Harry Potter!! /o/

[skygiants]

Aha! Let's see if I can remember what's popular and unpopular from Harry Potter fandom these days.

1. I actually kind of wish Harry wasn't always our POV character. I think I would get less frustrated with him if I wasn't stuck inside his head all the time. There are definitely moments when I like him, but there are other moments when I want to kick him and get a chance to hang out with someone else for a while.

2. Dumbledore is a manipulative jerk! Um, is that unpopular? I also think he's just a bad person to be in charge of the school. He has a terrible record with hiring teachers and pays no attention to any of his administrative duties! I bet poor McGonagall does all his paperwork.

3. Cho Chang does not and has never had any obligation to like Harry, hang out with Harry, or join Harry's illegal wizard militia, and the fact that she decided not to do so does not make her a terrible person.

4. Tri-Wizard competition or not, Beauxbatons is clearly a better school than Hogwarts. For a start, their students actually learn a foreign language. That's one up on all the Hogwarts kids! Also, Fleur is made of awesome.

[winding_path]

I'm having a day. Wanna make up interesting Supernatural opinions for me?

[skygiants]

I will do my best!

1. I am sad to say that I cannot ship Castiel/Dean, because I TOTALLY SHIP CASTIEL/ELLEN. You know it's mad hot. (Come on, he's immortal, which means she's closer to his age than any of the other humans still alive on the show!)

2. I believe that there is a massive amount of canon evidence pointing to the fact that Jess was secretly a ninja. Ironically, she was dating Sam because she just wanted a nice normal life.

3. Actually I think it would have been awesome if The Littlest Winchester from that one episode had hung around and turned their duo into a trio. I am always a fan of more ensembleness!

4. What Supernatural really, really needs is a musical episode.

[genarti]

All my first thoughts are canons that do not really have fandoms so far as I know. *amused* Uh.

NEWSIES.

[skygiants]

And we've already been over our mutually unpopular Inda opinions. *laughing* OKAY! Be aware that my knowledge of Newsies fandom mostly comes from Shati's fic-snippets, so, based on that:

1. BUMLETS IS NOT A SEXY NAME.

2. SPOT CONLON IS NOT A ONE-MAN GUY. THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO EVERYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD!

3. GIRLS WANT RIGHTS, NEWSIES FANDOM. GIRLS. WANT. RIGHTS.

[aberration]

I... kind of want to be a hater and ask for Heroes, but I think I might spare you the trauma and go with Buffy instead.

[skygiants]

Ahehehehe yeah. Oh Heroes. You probably know my opinions there already anyways, though! So, Buffy:

1. I always feel that there should be more parents in the series. It weirds me out that we hardly ever see Xander's or Willow's families, and even Joyce doesn't appear in a lot of episodes. My high school experience involved a lot more adults!

2. I actually really liked Dawn from the beginning. She may be a little whiny, but, to be fair, I whined just about that much when I was thirteen too, and I would have whined way more if my older sister got to be a magical superheroine. And see above, re: families - I thought it was really nice to see Buffy's family situtaion playing more of a role.

3. I never actually cared all that much about Jenny Calendar. Uh, this may be because I still haven't seen quite all of the second season.

4. I love Tara, but I have some problems with the fact that the later seasons of the show seemed to completely forget Oz ever existed because it made it inconvenient for the lesbian jokes. Sexuality can be a spectrum, Joss! Speaking of continuity, someone else I wish had been mentioned, um, ever again: Jesse from the very first episode.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

ANCIENT ROME

[skygiants]

DOES ANCIENT ROME EVEN HAVE A FANDOM JI??

Okay, you are probably getting bits of things stolen from I, Claudius and Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. My learnings, they are great!

1. Livia is the most awesome mass-murdering empress to ever poison most of her family.

2. You know, Julius Caesar probably was planning on making himself dictator. Democracy is a principle worth supporting! Even if stabbing the guy 40 times was possibly going too far.

3. The Flavians were infinitely more kickass than those crazy Julio-Claudians.

[rushin-doll.livejournal.com]

The temptation to suggest The Legend is high, but I resist because there's no Fandom. Instead I shall make you do this twice! Once with Pushing Daisies and then again with Gunslinger Girl (which may be next to impossible what with tiny!fandom with a large side of creepy!insane!fandom.

Helpfully,
Ana

[skygiants]

I think there is a fandom! It's just focused in the kdrama-watching bits of the internet, which I occasionally go and peer at to hunt down kdrama recs. On the other hand, we're not done with it yet.

Pushing Daisies:

1. OLIVE/EMERSON OTP!!!! I have yet to come across anyone else who really shares this opinion, but come on, it would be awesome!

2. Which is not to say that there shouldn't be more Simone. Also, more Lila. MAYBE Simone and Lila working together!

3. Not that I don't love Ned and Chuck, but, especially by the second season, the subplots centering on Olive, Emerson and the aunts were a lot more interesting than the Ned/Chuck-related ones.

4. I love the fashions they give Olive and Chuck, but they occasionally make a misstep and set Chuck's makeup on overkill.


Gunslinger Girl: do I even know what popular fannish opinions are here?

1. Rico is the most terrifying of the girls, hands down.

2. I'm actually not nearly as interested in Henrietta as I am in Rico, Triela and Claes.

3. Gunslinger Girls should be a show entirely devoid of shipping. Except maybe Angelica's fratello/his ex-girlfriend.

4. I thought the Pinocchio subplot was actually kind of dull?

[furikku.livejournal.com]

Please give to me unpopular opinions regarding the Phantom of the Opera.

[skygiants]

Hahahaha oh Phandom. My very first fandom as a small thing just discovering the internet! Okay:

1. Philippe de Chagny gets a bad rap! As far as I am concerned he reacts quite sanely throughout the whole book and it was very unfair to write him out of the musical.

2. It is permissible to root for Christine to end up with neither of her obsessive stalkers, but perhaps to go to a different country and continue her promising career far away from all the crazy.

3. I totally ship Carlotta/Piangi. I think it's sweet!