Marty Sue?

[ithildin]

So George Lucas based Luke on himself, and Gene Roddenberry based Wesley on himself, and those are just two are off the top of my head, and now, I discover that one of the creators of How I Met Your Mother based Ted on himself and the other creator, Marshall. Yet I never see the screams of 'MARY SUE!' that I'm sure would exist if these guys were women.

Just an observation.


Ted was originally modeled on you, and Marshall on Craig. How far have those characters evolved from that? Do you ever sit around and say, "I wouldn't do that" or "We wouldn't do that to each other"?

Ted certainly isn't me anymore. I haven't been engaged, or had a lot of the other experiences he's had. It's more the characters have become themselves .We definitely do try to ask ourselves, "Would this happen to us? Would this happen to someone we know?" for all the characters. We try to keep them personal and real, but there's more overlap now. I relate to Marshall as much as I do to Ted.


Full text here, but it is spoilerish for the last ep of the season.

Comments

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

It's rather obvious - most crying and ranting in fandom is done by the girls, so, when it comes to male charactres, there is no point of jeolusy:).
Most OFCs are Mary Sue in a way, the point is, they are different from each other. Elizabeth Benneth is technically a Mary Sue, and so what?:) There are very popular fantasy book-series in Russia, where main witch-character is 100% author herself, but books are so well written, that nobody is ranting. And those who do, are just jeolus of the author's success:).
As for the fandom - well, there are OFCs that make me sick and there are OFCs that make me interested, there are characters that I utterly disbelieve in and there are characters I wish I created myself:). All depends on the author's skill and talent.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

There are very popular fantasy book-series in Russia, where main witch-character is 100% author herself, but books are so well written, that nobody is ranting

Seriously? Wow! That's so refreshing to hear! Maybe they'll be translated into English one day.

[grachonok.livejournal.com]

Seriously:). It may be an 'exception confirming the rule', but it does exist:).