Part of it may be that the characters are just complicated enough; they're not, say, the completely interchangeable characters in the early Adventure Legion of Super-Heroes, but they're nowhere near Hamlet either.
Basically, what I'm going for is transferring a bit from Scott McCloud to writing from art. He makes the point that the less complicated an image of a person is, the more the viewer can read into it what they want to, whereas increasing complexity limits how much their perspective can read into it.
The Potter/SW characters are complicated enough to be of certain archetypes, with just a bit of a fillip via quotable lines or setting to not be completely cookie cutter. So people can both find something to identify with and feel that they're contributing to the characterization via what they're reading into it themselves.
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Date: 2007-07-22 03:53 am (UTC)Basically, what I'm going for is transferring a bit from Scott McCloud to writing from art. He makes the point that the less complicated an image of a person is, the more the viewer can read into it what they want to, whereas increasing complexity limits how much their perspective can read into it.
The Potter/SW characters are complicated enough to be of certain archetypes, with just a bit of a fillip via quotable lines or setting to not be completely cookie cutter. So people can both find something to identify with and feel that they're contributing to the characterization via what they're reading into it themselves.