I'm half-asleep and in pain and I'm ~arguing on the Internet~, so I'm not going to cover everything, but I'll say something that's been bothering me.
I don't see how I can back up a statement of opinion with "proof", but I will attempt to clarify that opinion.
I said that the writing of Digimon Adventure 02 is "weak" (opinion) and backed it up with what I believed made it "weak", with evidence pulled from the actual work and various discussions over the years with the fandom.
You wandered in here and said "Frontier is crap" and figured that you could leave the discussion at that, a situation which really isn't possible, because you could have taken the time to say some reason why you think that. Not all opinions can be backed up with evidence, but ones that deal with media possibly can, since you can pull things from the media to back up your opinion. You have an example of this with how we're discussing
Dracula, by using evidence pulled from the text to show that it was confusing to read and where the problems were.
Also, may I remind you that you said something like that in a forum that's dedicated to looking critically at written (here)/drawn (art boards) work and people give their "opinions" on them that are backed up with evidence from the written/drawn work to back it up? If you had wandered in to a person's fanfiction thread and posted the exact same post you did here there, then you would have been breaking the "no flaming" rule, the "no trolling" rule, and the "not constructive criticism" rule.
So, yes, it would be rather necessary for you ("behoove") to back up your opinion about a work of media that you posted on a forum dedicated to posting backed-up opinions of works of media.
I would continue discussing Digimon, but I haven't seen Frontier in years (and it will be next year before I even get a chance to think about watching it), I haven't seen all of Adventure (02) yet in the original (the dub brings up many more
plot holes), and I'm more focused on something right now with a better fandom. (In conclusion: socks!)
3] Bram, you fool. Who gives two characters the same name? More to the point, a name as forgettable as John? Eh?
Yes, this. John and John running around together. This annoyed me about the book too. Van Helsing was still the best though, though that's just my fangirling of red-head smart teachers/doctors.
Apparently the ending was a complete and utter anti-climax. Something about killing him in his sleep?
If I remember correctly, that was their goal, but it wasn't achieved that way. It was still terribly anti-climatic because the ending was written from the point of view of a character who didn't even take part in the final battle. She hid behind a rock quite a distance away that she wasn't fully sure what was happening.
Feign totally just reminded me that I need to update my LJ.