Why on EARTH is giving Lucius long hair and a snake cane considered such a horrible thing?
Because it's ugly? I mean, there's nothing wrong with writing it that way if you like it, but there's also people who are the opposite way and will freak if he's written with short hair. Personally, I don't write it that way because I honestly think it's double-take ugly, and I don't think Lucius is an ugly person, but as long as you can separate canon from movie canon, jeez, I don't see who's complaining.
I guess I'm alone in seeing Lucius as just a terribly average sort of person. Like really, just a rich, not terribly smart, maybe sort of jerky and immature but overall average guy. I do think he bottles things but then I'm hard-pressed to name one person, especially male, who doesn't. I think he views Narcissa as a wife, and Draco as a son, and Snape as weird and vaguely greasy (and young, I don't think they were ever really friends). The problem I always have with others' characterizations is that people just tend to think that his emotions even need this much contemplation, when really, I don't think there's anything particularly special about the way he operates. In the books, we only see him angry and bored (and subservient, once), but there's no rule that says he can't be happy or disappointed or excited or whatever at other points, like all of us. I have zero respect for anyone who makes him into a sadist and a sociopath, especially if they then say that he's not just a one-dimensional villain. Whatever. I definitely think he can and should be written with emotion and dimension, but I think it destroys the purpose of writing him that way when the author makes a big deal out of it, as to imply it's a rare thing or whatever. A rare thing for someone to have feelings? Big sparkly stfu.
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Date: 2004-08-11 02:42 pm (UTC)Because it's ugly? I mean, there's nothing wrong with writing it that way if you like it, but there's also people who are the opposite way and will freak if he's written with short hair. Personally, I don't write it that way because I honestly think it's double-take ugly, and I don't think Lucius is an ugly person, but as long as you can separate canon from movie canon, jeez, I don't see who's complaining.
I guess I'm alone in seeing Lucius as just a terribly average sort of person. Like really, just a rich, not terribly smart, maybe sort of jerky and immature but overall average guy. I do think he bottles things but then I'm hard-pressed to name one person, especially male, who doesn't. I think he views Narcissa as a wife, and Draco as a son, and Snape as weird and vaguely greasy (and young, I don't think they were ever really friends). The problem I always have with others' characterizations is that people just tend to think that his emotions even need this much contemplation, when really, I don't think there's anything particularly special about the way he operates. In the books, we only see him angry and bored (and subservient, once), but there's no rule that says he can't be happy or disappointed or excited or whatever at other points, like all of us. I have zero respect for anyone who makes him into a sadist and a sociopath, especially if they then say that he's not just a one-dimensional villain. Whatever. I definitely think he can and should be written with emotion and dimension, but I think it destroys the purpose of writing him that way when the author makes a big deal out of it, as to imply it's a rare thing or whatever. A rare thing for someone to have feelings? Big sparkly stfu.