20 Feb
2001
20 Feb
'01
7:40 p.m.
Betty Ragan wrote:
I think this is also an important point. I enjoy reading about things -- and sometimes writing about them -- that I would never, ever, *ever* want to experience in real life.
Sure. Literature is how we 'try on' different experiences, one way we process our emotions. I don't think people keep watching B7 year after year because they'd actually _want_ to see a bunch of friends and comrades fight side by side for years and then massacre each other in a 'tragedy of errors'. If liking something in fiction is the same thing as liking it IRL, I'm not sure there's any excuse at all for being a B7 fan.
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