freelovefreeway wrote...
I realize this isn't a happy topic, and that it was left behind a few pages ago, but I'm going to bring it up again because I don't think it ended in a good way.
I think we might be getting into censorship a bit too much here...
In ME2, we have our initial Phoenix Armor scene, a little pre-Horizon Kaidan and Lilith scene, Horizon, an email, and then looking at the picture. Taking Horizon out of that...we don't exactly have much ME2 footage left to work with.
The Garrus conversation was a Garrus plus Kaidan conversation. Did it include Garrus? Yes. Did it also get people to talk about Kaidan's personality and analyze what we think his feelings and thoughts are? Yes. How is that a bad thing?
If we take out Kaidan-plus-anything-else...and we take our Horizon...and we take out any discussions about Kaidan that might cause some people to disagree with each other, then what does that leave us with?
Fanfic updates and friendly helloes between the nonlurkers? How is this supporting Kaidan? Should I bring up the fact that some people don't read fanfic? There seem to be enough people who are interested in fanfic to make it worthwhile to be a part of this thread. So maybe everyone should just accept that they don't need to respond to everything every one else says if they don't like the topic?
If a discussion includes other characters, good. The more extra stuff involved in the discussion, the more ways we are able to look at Kaidan and possibly find new things to think about him. And if the extra stuff is something like a dislike of Thane or Jacob, then anyone who wants to defend them should be able to in a non-Kaidan related defense—because the bashing was brought up in the original Kaidan discussion and if something is bashed, then something has the right to be defended.
Kaidan in relation to anything is a valid thing to bring up in this thread. Everyone should make attempts to stay in a Kaidan-like direction, but anything on the massive ban-this and ban-that scale just seems silly to me.
This!
I was in a very foul mood yesterday and stayed out of the topic, especially after Batteries' Garrus picture was said to be Kaidan-unrelated and therefore didn't belong in this thread. I sometimes feel that the fear of this thread getting closed is big, especially when I compare it to the other character threads, where going OT over several pages is no problem at all, since most people return to the thread topic easily on their own.
I find it sad, that things are often shut down because they are just not Kaidan related, although the discussions origin in this thread and often develop in a great way, until someone steps in and yells You're OT - Go back to talking about Kaidan! i for myself often just feel lectured then and treated like I have done something wrong. And I also often think twice before I post something, if I really wanna say it or not.
So, yeah, I really do enjoy our OT discussiona and would love for them to continue, because I have faith that everyone knows when to go back to the original topic of this thread.