The term "Mary Sue" needs to die.

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Karha of Honor
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Re: The term "Mary Sue" needs to die.

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MithrandirOlorin wrote:Every character is a Wish Fulfillment character, that is not Mary Sue means.
Evey character? No one has ever written a tragedy? Or there are no books about people who fail?
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Re: The term "Mary Sue" needs to die.

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Darth Wedgius wrote:
MithrandirOlorin wrote:If a movie is made with people Sexually attracted to Cars as the Target audience, and those people like that movie, that movie was a success, Period.
As well as providing a new definition for "autoerotic."
Okay, that was a good post there. ^
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I have to be nitpicky and point out that Kylo Ren is a Knight of Ren and not a Sith. Even in the old EU the post-ROTJ "Sith" were considered heretics by Bane's holocron.
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GandALF wrote:I have to be nitpicky and point out that Kylo Ren is a Knight of Ren and not a Sith. Even in the old EU the post-ROTJ "Sith" were considered heretics by Bane's holocron.
He is Sedriss QL level or something, or Ventress i assume.
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote:
Darth Wedgius wrote:
MithrandirOlorin wrote:If a movie is made with people Sexually attracted to Cars as the Target audience, and those people like that movie, that movie was a success, Period.
As well as providing a new definition for "autoerotic."
Okay, that was a good post there. ^
Thanks :)
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