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7. "RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft"
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   >No, no. A "Mary Sue" is the original term for a self insert character.
>Actually it's a derogatory term. Because it refers to the very worst
>abuses of SI characters. You never never want to refer to a
>character as a "Mary Sue" unless it's meant as an insult.

No, "Mary Sue" is a more general term than SI. To take the extreme example, Marissa Picard is definately a Mary Sue, even though Steven Ratliff isn't a nine year old girl.

First-season DJ (especially before we started seeing his flaws) definitely had Mary-Sue-ish characteristics -- the brilliant, handsome teenager who's better than everyone else at everything, and all the appropriate original characters of the opposite sex fall in love with him. But, just as UF proved that in the hands of a good enough writer, self-insertion can work, NXE proved the same things about Mary Sue.


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      RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Logan_D_alt May-20-03 2
         RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft jonathanlennox May-20-03 7
      RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft trussteam May-20-03 3
          RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Mephronmoderator May-20-03 4
              RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Firefly May-20-03 5
              RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft jonathanlennox May-20-03 6
              RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft BobSchroeck May-20-03 10
              RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Mistral May-20-03 11
              RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft astfgl May-21-03 14
                  RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Sinapus May-21-03 18
              RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Sinapus May-21-03 17
          RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Gryphonadmin May-20-03 8
      RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft BobSchroeck May-20-03 9
          RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Gryphonadmin May-20-03 12
   RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft NeoRavenK7 May-21-03 13
      RE: Speaking of Screen Times - DJ Croft Kendra Kirai May-21-03 15
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