[Tam I am]

Originally Posted by Lawtan

Well, to clarify plagiarization: One of the greatest Epics of Rome, the Aeneid, "plagiarized" the Odyssey and the Iliad.
And several novels are connected/pay homage to other works - really bad ones instead try to steal from other works instead.
However, it just seems that sometimes things that are considered "cheesy" or "unrealistic" in modern works...are overlooked in earlier things because they are classical.

Bad romance dialogue in modern things: laughed at or criticized
Bad romance dialogue in Romeo and Juliet: Well, I laughed...

Or, Law is just a crazy cook. *Waves spatula around*

Ohhhh. Homage/tribute I like. After all, there are only a limited number of stories and characters in the world. As for the cheesy and unrealistic, I think I cut the classic works some slack because I know people didn't know as much then, and they also had different ideas of what was funny or entertaining. So I kinda just view it as alien stuff from another world that I can't really tear apart with as much satisfaction as I can a modern book about people who give their son two bedrooms of his own and stuff their nephew in the cupboard under the stairs.

Of course, for the most part, that cheesy old junk in the really old stories is about the only romance I can take without gagging. XD