Identifying with viewpoint characters certainly makes sense. I think in part I feel like for an ensemble show there are multiple viewpoints of entry even if there is one dominant protagonist.
I also tend to view texts from my outside-the-text perspective rather than from the perspective of any of the characters. Some of my critique is definitely grounded in the world of the text, but I also critique it as a text -- critiquing the creator's decisions.
I always thought of myself as (wanting to be) adult, so I rather suspect that plays a large role in my thinking of older-than-me characters as "just people," and in lusting after them I probably age myself up to be peer with them. (Perving on the age differential is definitely something I do in fanfic and I frequently place myself in the markedly younger character's position, but that's a separate kind of fantasy.)
Then again, the BSCverse character whose head I slip into most easily is a 15-year-old deeply closeted gay boy, so I have no idea what this says about me.
That being a queer adolescent misfit is a strong point of identity for you?
no subject
I also tend to view texts from my outside-the-text perspective rather than from the perspective of any of the characters. Some of my critique is definitely grounded in the world of the text, but I also critique it as a text -- critiquing the creator's decisions.
I always thought of myself as (wanting to be) adult, so I rather suspect that plays a large role in my thinking of older-than-me characters as "just people," and in lusting after them I probably age myself up to be peer with them. (Perving on the age differential is definitely something I do in fanfic and I frequently place myself in the markedly younger character's position, but that's a separate kind of fantasy.)
Then again, the BSCverse character whose head I slip into most easily is a 15-year-old deeply closeted gay boy, so I have no idea what this says about me.
That being a queer adolescent misfit is a strong point of identity for you?