Quote: Matthew Stott @ June 9 2010, 5:57 PM BST
So someone saying something along the lines of 'Why was Amy so happy to be taken to a gallery when she could be taken anywhere? That's a fault' Is crit, and my response of 'Why wouldn't she be happy to be taken? I don't see that as a fault' is in some way the wrong way to respond? Because that's the, I admit, rather sad little tussle I got involved with. Some faults were raised, I responded with why I thought they weren't faults, I gave reasons, surely giving their crit a comparable critical analysis. There was still no agreement, I said okay, if that's your opinion then fine.
From what you said.
RANDOM CRITTER:
'Why was Amy so happy to be taken to a gallery when she could be taken anywhere? That's a fault'
STOTT:
'Why wouldn't she be happy to be taken? I don't see that as a fault'
Do you really not see how you haven't responded in kind to the question? The question is implying that someone in a time and space machine might be a little non plussed to be taken to art exhibition on Earth when they could see anything in history of the galaxy. And you'd have to say they'd be right.
'Why wouldn't they be?' doesn't answer the question. We know why they wouldn't be - it's in the question. You can't then finish on 'I don't see it as a fault' as you haven't given a reason. To defend the point you'd have to say something like - 'It's a major exhibition of the kind never staged before - or Amy grew up in a remote rural village and had only seen Van Gogh's work in books etc.