Re: [semi-OT]On Characterization Arguments

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:43:35 GMT, "Ethan Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>"Dot Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> I, for example, have a pretty strong dislike for _Love Hina_ because
>> of its over-the-top violence levels.  Oh, sure, it was hilarious at
>> first, but eventually "Keitarou accidentally being mistaken for a
>> pervert and having the living daylights punched out of him" got really
>> old.  And although I thought _Happy Lesson_ did the whole "what a
>> Dating Sim would REALLY be like" joke a lot better, I half suspect
>> that I wouldn't enjoy it as much if I sat through the rest of the
>> series.
>
>I don't like it either, but my friend loves it.  I think Love Hina dosen't
>do anything new and the violence against the main guy is horrid.
>Its not funny when the guy dosen't do anything wrong.  Its funny
>when Lum shocks Ataru because Ataru is doing something wrong
>like leering after other girls or what not and he deserves what he
>gets, but Naru just beats on that guy for the hell of it and I am like
>damn he shouldn't stand for that crap.

        That's pretty much the same reason that Onegai, Teacher annoyed me so
much.  What the teacher does against the main male character counts as mental
abuse in my books, always doing her best to see him in the worst possible light
despite the character's history of not being that way.  When she wrongly accuses
him, again, of running around with another woman/girl behind her back, leaving
him arguing his actual innocence, again, it got annoying.  I'm no expert on love
and relationships, but I know that love and respect is _not_ shown that way.

        Yeah, I know it's supposed to be a gag, but it still rubbed me the wrong
way.  And if Ai Yori Aoshi was written with Aoi Sakuraba being as mistrusting,
irrational and argumentative, it wouldn't be sitting on the shelf behind me
right now.