I dont know what my point here is, really, find it very funny when people are like 'ugh. that's how you get some hilariously bad literary analysis. If someone who has only ever analyzed media this way is all of a sudden handed Lolita or 1984 or Gatsby, which deal in shitty unreliable narrators or even books like Beloved or Catcher in the Rye (VERY different books) that have narrators dealing with and reacting to challenging situations- well. Which is fine if you're looking at, like, 99% of popular anime and YA fiction and Marvel movies.īut it can completely fall apart with certain kinds of media. Themes are built around agreeing with the protagonists and condemning the antagonists, and taking the protagonists at their word. Mainly, you're supposed to LIKE and AGREE with the main characters. Not a BAD way, just a SPECIFIC way.Īnd the kind of media that attracts fandoms lends itself well (normally) to those kinds of analysis. One thing about fandom culture is that it sort of trains you to interact with and analyze media in a very specific way.
