User blog:VicGeorge2K9/Don't like what you read? Then write your own!

This is just my commentary, but I think it's an opinion that's shared with other creative works authors of any type, whether it be books, movies, music, video games, whatever. People are not going to like the choices we make for writing characters, even if it's a pairing that they think is canonical, like Hefty and Smurfette, or Handy and Marina, or even Brainy and Clumsy. The thing abou the Smurfs is that there is no official couple pairing among the Smurfs, so fanfiction writers can pair whomever they want with whomever they want, including original characters that they create. If the readers aren't happy with the pairings that they see in fanfiction stories because they go against what they see as "the official couple", then they should start creating their own stories with the desired couple in mind if they have the talent for writing fanfiction stories. Otherwise, they don't have any right to complain when the characters themselves technically don't belong to anybody but the copyright owners, which in the case of the Smurfs is Studio Peyo. We're not out to please everybody with what we create; we just simply create and let the people decide for themselves that it's worth their time and effort to read and critique the work.