The idea that the ambiguity, the balance between the literal and the metaphoric, might be the point doesn't seem to really occur to him
So now the argument has moved on from "he thinks the zombies might be metaphorical - stoopid n00b, doesn't he get that they're literal??" to "he doesn't understand that the fact that the zombies might metaphorical is the point". Since you ignored it the first time I said it, I'll say it again - you keep changing your argument everytime anyone answers it. You keep changing what you think the guy got wrong, whenever anyone points out that he might have made a valid point. And you keep ignoring the valid points that are being made in defence of mundanes [1] reviewing "your" genre.
However, as interesting and engaging as this discussion has been (honestly, I've enjoyed it), I think when we get to the point of discussing what we mean by "understand", it's time to declare this conversation Officially Up It's Own Arse, and speak of cake intsead.
Mmmmmmmmmm, cake. Hott Chocolate Fudge Cake :-)
[1] I use this word advisedly. It strikes me that it's use (and I appreciate, in all senses of the word, that you've never used it) smacks of a teenage desperation to see oneself and one's group as special and different and beyond the understanding of those poor "normal" idiots. And that to me charactrises both the referenced response to the review, and the subtext of the entire "he's not one of us; he can't possibly expect to understand" argument.
no subject
So now the argument has moved on from "he thinks the zombies might be metaphorical - stoopid n00b, doesn't he get that they're literal??" to "he doesn't understand that the fact that the zombies might metaphorical is the point". Since you ignored it the first time I said it, I'll say it again - you keep changing your argument everytime anyone answers it. You keep changing what you think the guy got wrong, whenever anyone points out that he might have made a valid point. And you keep ignoring the valid points that are being made in defence of mundanes [1] reviewing "your" genre.
However, as interesting and engaging as this discussion has been (honestly, I've enjoyed it), I think when we get to the point of discussing what we mean by "understand", it's time to declare this conversation Officially Up It's Own Arse, and speak of cake intsead.
Mmmmmmmmmm, cake. Hott Chocolate Fudge Cake :-)
[1] I use this word advisedly. It strikes me that it's use (and I appreciate, in all senses of the word, that you've never used it) smacks of a teenage desperation to see oneself and one's group as special and different and beyond the understanding of those poor "normal" idiots. And that to me charactrises both the referenced response to the review, and the subtext of the entire "he's not one of us; he can't possibly expect to understand" argument.