Why does fandom seem to hate Suzaku?

[epistretes.livejournal.com]

I have been nosing through the fandom for some time and I couldn't help but notice the rampant Suzaku hatred. So, I decided to find out why this seemed to be the case.

'Hypocrite' seemed to be the biggest complaint, but (and yes, I am a Lulu fangirl as well before you kill me) Lelouch is one, too. So I was wondering just what made Suzaku seem to be such a target of ire.



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I'm just interested to see what dynamics make people like or dislike certain characters in this series.

Comments

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking on it for a while. Geass has some of the most character bashing I've seen in any fandom, at least for a fandom this young. :/ It makes me kind of sad because I wonder how people enjoy the show if they're so focused on hating a character--often for silly reasons like "he has hax powers!!" (...in a show about rollerblading mecha and magical girls who come back from getting shot in the head) or "he's too much of a goody-two-shoes!" or blatantly untrue reasons like "he's a Kira clone and a Mary Sue!"

I dunno. It's just kind of hard for me to grasp, because I very rarely hate characters anymore unless they're genuinely badly written. It's fiction; I might not like such-and-such a character if I met them in real life, but that's what makes it great to be able to watch them on a screen.

[epistretes.livejournal.com]

I do find it sad this fandom is very bash-happy.

Its very true though - I could understand it more if it was a modern-day real world setting, but as it has magical girls, geass powers and mechas; you can't really apply contemporary terms to it.

I understand I haven't watched a huge amount of Gundam Seed, but the amount it gets compared kind of bothers me. CG is its own show and its being strangled by GS too much, imho.

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

There seemed to be quite a few little homages and nods to SEED in the beginning, but as the show progressed, it really moved into its own territory. People rant about how the upcoming island arc is a SEED ripoff, for instance, but it seems pretty clear that they're not doing romance--so they're making a nod to SEED with involving getting-stranded-on-an-island-together at all, but they're going in their own direction with it.

[epistretes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean - its almost impossible to be utterly original nowadays, so having a nod to the predecessors is nice. I just think people are getting a little too hung up on comparison.

I mean I've seen

"Euphemia has pink hair, so shes obviously a Lacus ripoff" comments around and things like that which is taking it a touch too far I think.