It's possible that part of the reason I'm not most fond of it is that I'm very bad at FEELS. <_<
Published fiction (at least in main-track SF&F) has a pretty strong emphasis on it, too, I think I picked up on the pressure for it there before I really got in to fandom. And I've found that in fandoms where the source is something other than 3rd person - Dresden Files, ACD Holmes, Homestuck being the three most recent to come to mind - the fandom writes a *lot* in canon POV. But media fandom classic is definitely big on 3PL - I wonder if that's because videos are (almost always) sort of inherently in 3rd person, so the nature of the source itself pushes people toward that?
A lot of novels before the 20th century used various "messy" third persons - ranging on a scale from head-hopping 3rd person limited to a sort of unintentional omniscient personal. I'm sure people have written entire theory books about this, but I suspect it's just that the novel was new enough that they didn't really have the modern concept of strict POVs that we do. And readers at the time somehow still managed to enjoy novels!
And I know headhopping is *anathema* to fandom, but like Jane Austen, it's possible to use it really well! I wonder if that goes back partly to working from source again - to some extent the POV usage in movies and TV is often the equivalent of head-hopping. But if you do head-hopping badly, it's really really bad, especially with an audience trained to expect plain 3rd person limited. If you're interested, the Hal Duncan post I linked up there talks a lot about ways a writer can unintentionally signpost a different POV than the one they're using, and I think a lot of the issue with whiplash in bad headhopping is not the headhopping inherently, it's that writers signpost one POV and then suddenly switch to another one. I've never really been brave enough to write it yet, but I think it works best if you signpost for omniscient - which Austen usually does - and then limit it down. (And plain omniscient is hard enough as it is!)
(tbh this is really less me changing the POVs I write in than admitting I already have, *cough*. I checked, 13 of my last 20 stories on AO3 are in something other than 3PL.)
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Published fiction (at least in main-track SF&F) has a pretty strong emphasis on it, too, I think I picked up on the pressure for it there before I really got in to fandom. And I've found that in fandoms where the source is something other than 3rd person - Dresden Files, ACD Holmes, Homestuck being the three most recent to come to mind - the fandom writes a *lot* in canon POV. But media fandom classic is definitely big on 3PL - I wonder if that's because videos are (almost always) sort of inherently in 3rd person, so the nature of the source itself pushes people toward that?
A lot of novels before the 20th century used various "messy" third persons - ranging on a scale from head-hopping 3rd person limited to a sort of unintentional omniscient personal. I'm sure people have written entire theory books about this, but I suspect it's just that the novel was new enough that they didn't really have the modern concept of strict POVs that we do. And readers at the time somehow still managed to enjoy novels!
And I know headhopping is *anathema* to fandom, but like Jane Austen, it's possible to use it really well! I wonder if that goes back partly to working from source again - to some extent the POV usage in movies and TV is often the equivalent of head-hopping. But if you do head-hopping badly, it's really really bad, especially with an audience trained to expect plain 3rd person limited. If you're interested, the Hal Duncan post I linked up there talks a lot about ways a writer can unintentionally signpost a different POV than the one they're using, and I think a lot of the issue with whiplash in bad headhopping is not the headhopping inherently, it's that writers signpost one POV and then suddenly switch to another one. I've never really been brave enough to write it yet, but I think it works best if you signpost for omniscient - which Austen usually does - and then limit it down. (And plain omniscient is hard enough as it is!)
(tbh this is really less me changing the POVs I write in than admitting I already have, *cough*. I checked, 13 of my last 20 stories on AO3 are in something other than 3PL.)