>"At any rate, fans who criticized Janette's resurrection were dubbed "Nevermores", which I take to be a reference to Poe's poem, "The Raven"."
Actually, while it is accurate that "Nevermore" referenced Poe's poem, it is inaccurate that the faction was those who "criticized" Janette's survival -- at least not in early 1996 when the incident happened.
The Nevermores were those who interpreted that Janette had died in "The Human Factor," period. The faction designation had nothing to do with opinions about the relative storytelling value of Janette's survival or death.
I didn't coin the name, but I did seize it and run with it. I unfortunately caused that faction to come into existence -- it's my fault -- and I subsequently disavowed its existence. It should be obliterated, not celebrated, please. I and one other person, we were the Nevermores, and then we weren't, with regret and profuse apologies. It's a long story, and of course we never meant to hurt people's feelings, but we did hurt their feelings, and had to back off and apologize; the Ravens took the Nevermores as a brutal personal attack, and the Nevermores were abandoned in politeness as well as in response to textual evidence and evidence of the intentions of TPTB.
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