skygiants

I love Feed very much and I didn't notice these problems the first (or second) time reading them. taught Feed last month, and my students were bothered by points 1 and 2. Point 1 elicited a few of those irritating "I'm smarter than the author and this is what the author did wrong" papers -- not that I mind people critiquing authors, but the papers were too busy being smug to develop interesting critical vocabulary. The best of the final papers (it had some hilarious title like V'z gur ureb, lbh'er gur ivyynva: yrg'f trg gbtrgure naq znxr n fgbel*) argued that all the characters (especially Georgia and the villain) were stock characters, that Retinal KA was a superhero-type "flaw" that didn't limit Georgia's personality like a real flaw would, and that the use of stock characters helped the political allegory.

*encoded for lack of googleability (http://rot13.com/index.php)