Retrieve the Kraken!

Gaw, yes. I don't mind being manipulated. As a writer, I take part in plenty of manipulation myself. It's unavoidable; it's the base rock of story-telling anyway. But I get VERY ticked off when I can plainly see a writer trying to force my emotions into a certain direction. They have to earn it, and that takes skill and patience. You don't just automatically get to push people's brains around. That's why it's so sad that we have so many poor writers who are published.