The title implies all! Give me your hot takes.
To start: I didn’t really like the movie The French Connection. I’m not really sure why, but I just didn’t.
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Ou, man, I’m a whole ball of “unpopular opinions”, as someone who would be labled for each extreme by the ones I’m objecting to, this time.
For example: its very clear that I don’t land on the side of forcing fandom onto characters to revamp them, especially to preach an ideology more than tell a story, or to serve a fan-based love interest that does nothing for the story. I am consistent in this viewpoint, it gets me called racist and bigot all the time, becauee people don’t want to see that I’m “consistent to the characters or franchise”. Its a misplaced weaponization of thebsub-culture, and I’m secure that my reasoning comes from consistency instead of the accusations.
But I also have opposite aspects:
Im fine with fan-based mutilations of the franchises: we wouldnt have the concept Mary Sue, if that didn’t exist BEFORE I was born. Fan based warping of the characters exists to feed the ones who have devoted themselves to changingnthe characters to suit them.
Likewise, I’m fine with whole new series that don’t lean on a franchise, may even spoof it, to do all the things you want done, in and of themselves.
The worst of it only eliminates me from being a part of the fanbase–well, guess what? It ain’t written for me.
This part is often lost when Im criticizing how dumb-to-me something is.
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This thread gave me flashbacks
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All of mine are unpopular 
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I think that soda is overrated.
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Chocolate isn’t that good
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I will resist the temptation of this thread… or I will get myself in trouble.
I will drop ONE safe one.
The Twilight Series was complete and utter garbage. Every time I finished a book I only wanted to smack Bella in the back of the head and yell: VAMPIRES ARE NOT CREATURES TO ASPIRE TO! (nor should they sparkle, but that’s another ball of wax)
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Unless they’re Alucard…
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I aspire to be like Alucard in the same way I aspire to be Ryouma.
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How do you feel about the theiry that thoae ain’t vamipres, they are fae?
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i hate to break it to you but that opinion hasn’t been unpopular since 2012
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Even Alucard was BSC
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If she wanted them to be FAE she should have said they were Fae not vegetarian vampires.
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LOL I told you it was a safe one! 
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Does Bunnicula count?
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My unpopular opinions haven’t changed since the last time we did this thread:
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All fiction is character driven; there’s no such thing as a plot-driven novel
Literary fiction is not a genre; it comes in every genre that commercial fiction does
The difference between litfic, commercial fiction, upmarket and pulp fiction is the depth
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@NotARussianBot brought it up.
I like Bunnicula. I had the first book and I actively looked for and bought the second book. I was so happy to read about Bunnicula XD I still have the books.
here are my other ones
I don’t like Shadow and Bone book series (some of you might know this about me XD ). The two good things about the entire story is the Darkling and the lore. I couldn’t take the plotline or the other characters. It was bad, in my opinion. There were too many weird things and Alina was whiney.
When I was little, I enjoyed Teletubbies and to this day only have good memories even of the baby sun. I don’t find it creepy. Dare I say, I like it 
(but I actually haven’t watched that many episodes of it, so maybe I’ve only seen the really good ones?).
The Hunger Games movies are better than the books.
Mexican Gothic wasn’t horror enough for me. I thought the ending was a big let down. My opinion.
Fae stories are overdone.
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That is indeed an interesting take. I haven’t heard that one before.
I’ve always made a distinct separation between novels that focus on the thoughts, feelings and self-revelations of characters from those that focus on events, occurrences and specific circumstances that propel the narrative forward.
But, if you look at events as being a direct consequence of character actions, I suppose you could say it’s only character driven. Maybe, maybe. I don’t quite agree with it but it’s an intriguing perspective nonetheless.
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