I thought you'd jumped ship from the snark, but I wasn't 100% positive. I mostly ignore the more recent snarks because the times I don't, they tend to be mean and unfunny. Or, y'know, they go way overboard on looking at the series without accepting the context of the time or the constraints of the series. (Huzzah for the person pointing out that Watson used a lot of sitters because it's a series about babysitters.)
I still enjoy when people point out that hey, you could argue for realism's sake that Watson is a great stepfather but an awful father to his biological children and do so in a post of it's own. It's one thing to poke at the series for conversation and it's another to set the thing on fire and laugh as it burns because things don't hold up to today's views.
Loved the bit about writing to your own childhood so if nothing else, this did bring that about.
Still, I definitely prefer when people poke at the series but you can tell they still enjoy it.
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Date: 2014-06-24 02:00 am (UTC)I still enjoy when people point out that hey, you could argue for realism's sake that Watson is a great stepfather but an awful father to his biological children and do so in a post of it's own. It's one thing to poke at the series for conversation and it's another to set the thing on fire and laugh as it burns because things don't hold up to today's views.
Loved the bit about writing to your own childhood so if nothing else, this did bring that about.
Still, I definitely prefer when people poke at the series but you can tell they still enjoy it.