You know what Laurel's picture of Anita being a horrible bully to her ex's new fiancee, with full authorial sympathy and expectation of audience sympathy, reminds me of?
Buck Williams in the Left Behind novels, and the way Jerry Jenkins expected the audience to nod along with his, "There is no way I will apologize to the Antichrist for something I didn't actually do just because I have every reason to want him to think I think I did it and am contrite, so I will stomp my feet at the most powerful and evil man in the world who already has every reason to kill me, and pout" thing. Both of these "authors" really think "My character asserting her/his superiority" makes the character actually look superior, don't they?
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Date: 2013-10-13 02:38 pm (UTC)Buck Williams in the Left Behind novels, and the way Jerry Jenkins expected the audience to nod along with his, "There is no way I will apologize to the Antichrist for something I didn't actually do just because I have every reason to want him to think I think I did it and am contrite, so I will stomp my feet at the most powerful and evil man in the world who already has every reason to kill me, and pout" thing. Both of these "authors" really think "My character asserting her/his superiority" makes the character actually look superior, don't they?