Survivor: The Second Age

[the phantom]

Originally Posted by The 1,000 Reader

Okay...the person who didn't do a single thing and was pushed around throughout her lifetime won simply because of far-fetched what-ifs and because she was touching a building when she died.

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Oh so Tar- who? won ... was this an ironic choice? Not my idea of a survivor......

*sulks* Tolkien didn't even think it was worth giving her a name of her own.....and her namesake is not exactly a fine example of resilience

Surely the two of you aren't surprised by the outcome. I'm really not.

People tend to vote for who they identify with. An average person obviously identifies with average characters- characters who don't change the world and don't have an extraordinary amount of power and ability.

But naturally, no one likes to think of themselves as being "average", and this shows through in the way they treat their very average favorite characters. They attempt to build them up through speculation and pretend that they did great things that just weren't mentioned, just as they pretend that they themselves have done things of value.

And they also love to say that their character could've been great, if only etc etc, because that is what they would like to believe about themselves ("I could/would/should be great, if only....").

Heh. I can almost feel the icy glares of my opponents through my computer. My work here is done.