Twilight post!
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stoopbeckRoadie, were all your Agatha Christie expectations met? BECAUSE MINE TOTALLY WERE!! Best episode, EVER.
I finished reading Twilight. It took me for freaking ever. Mostly because I kept having to take breaks from reading to rant to anyone who would listen to me about the characters, much to the annoyance of my family.
I really really tried to keep an open mind about this book. I really did. But the fact of the matter is that I found it to be kind of awful. And stupid. And misogynistic. Honestly, the only reason I was able to force myself to the ending was that I really really wanted to make an LJ post about it, and I couldn't do that until I'd finished the book.
I had a lot of issues with Twilight. Seriously, are there no other girls in Forks? No, seriously? It's like she's Gwen Cooper or something. I get that people are fascinated by the new kid, but dude, chill out, guys.
Also. Edward skeeves me out. Like, big time. And I know that people who loved the book are going to be upset with me, but it's kind of like the arguments Mom and I have about Rochester from Jane Eyre, where I think he's a skeevy skeeveball skeevehead, and Mom thinks he's terribly romantic, and there's no way to compromise between the two, but dude. Edward = skeeve.
His need to "take care of" Bella squicks me. What is this, Victorian England? She's so inept and clumsy and female that she needs a big strong man to protect her? I was a klutz, you know, back in the day. I took some martial arts classes, and they helped me be able to walk without falling down. I didn't become completely reliant on a vampire to carry me around.
Also, apparently the best way to flirt with a girl is to tell her that you could easily kill her, and that she could do nothing to defend herself. Having been on the receiving end of that kind of "flirting," allow me to disagree strenuously. That kind of flirting only proves that you're crazy crazypants.
Okay, so, brief detour into Criminal Minds. I swear this is on-topic. Seriously. So, on a couple of episodes of CM, there's this serial killer, Frank. He's well-spoken, charismatic, highly intelligent, and likes to immobilize people and cut them up while they're still awake. He falls for this one girl he's nabbed (because she's different from all of the other girls and isn't afraid of him) and he decides he's not going to cut her up, and they have this Epic Love where he leaves her secret presents in the night that are made of human rib bones and she thinks he's an alien because she's crazypants and she's totally captivated by him. Okay? And when they finally get together, he tells her that because of their Epic Love he's not going to kill any more people and they'll be together forever and it'll be sunshine and puppies and of course the thing is he'll eventually get the urge to kill, maybe not the next day, maybe not the next week or month, but it's what does, because it's what he is, and sooner or later he's going to kill this girl, the love of his life. Not because he's going to stop loving her, because he won't, but because that is what he is.
I really don't see how their Epic Love is any different from Bella and Edward's Epic Love. Bella really has no say in whether or not she loves Edward. No, really, she doesn't, because OMG HIS BREATH IS LIKE AN ADDICTIVE DRUG. He's a predator, designed to lure in prey by being pretty and seductive, and can make Bella's heart stop with a kiss, and exudes a scent that makes him irresistible to women. And yes, he's made a lifestyle decision that he's not going to prey on humans, but dude. All it takes is the right trigger, and then GOODBYE BELLA.
This post is way too long already, so I'm not going to get into how horribly unequal their relationship is, or how crazy it is that he's still in high school, or that OMG HE STALKED HER FOR REAL-REAL NOT FOR PLAY-PLAY, or that whenever Bella shows any sign of initiating contact or, you know, even responding slightly to Edward's kisses he's all OMG BELLA YOU'RE PLAYING WITH YOUR LIFE HOW COULD YOU?!!! thus enforcing the whole boy-having-sex = stud, girl-having-sex = slut-with-deathwish thing, and OMG.
I really don't think I'll be able to read the next one.
If you liked it, feel free to point out the error of my ways to me; I really enjoy book discussion. :D
I finished reading Twilight. It took me for freaking ever. Mostly because I kept having to take breaks from reading to rant to anyone who would listen to me about the characters, much to the annoyance of my family.
I really really tried to keep an open mind about this book. I really did. But the fact of the matter is that I found it to be kind of awful. And stupid. And misogynistic. Honestly, the only reason I was able to force myself to the ending was that I really really wanted to make an LJ post about it, and I couldn't do that until I'd finished the book.
I had a lot of issues with Twilight. Seriously, are there no other girls in Forks? No, seriously? It's like she's Gwen Cooper or something. I get that people are fascinated by the new kid, but dude, chill out, guys.
Also. Edward skeeves me out. Like, big time. And I know that people who loved the book are going to be upset with me, but it's kind of like the arguments Mom and I have about Rochester from Jane Eyre, where I think he's a skeevy skeeveball skeevehead, and Mom thinks he's terribly romantic, and there's no way to compromise between the two, but dude. Edward = skeeve.
His need to "take care of" Bella squicks me. What is this, Victorian England? She's so inept and clumsy and female that she needs a big strong man to protect her? I was a klutz, you know, back in the day. I took some martial arts classes, and they helped me be able to walk without falling down. I didn't become completely reliant on a vampire to carry me around.
Also, apparently the best way to flirt with a girl is to tell her that you could easily kill her, and that she could do nothing to defend herself. Having been on the receiving end of that kind of "flirting," allow me to disagree strenuously. That kind of flirting only proves that you're crazy crazypants.
Okay, so, brief detour into Criminal Minds. I swear this is on-topic. Seriously. So, on a couple of episodes of CM, there's this serial killer, Frank. He's well-spoken, charismatic, highly intelligent, and likes to immobilize people and cut them up while they're still awake. He falls for this one girl he's nabbed (because she's different from all of the other girls and isn't afraid of him) and he decides he's not going to cut her up, and they have this Epic Love where he leaves her secret presents in the night that are made of human rib bones and she thinks he's an alien because she's crazypants and she's totally captivated by him. Okay? And when they finally get together, he tells her that because of their Epic Love he's not going to kill any more people and they'll be together forever and it'll be sunshine and puppies and of course the thing is he'll eventually get the urge to kill, maybe not the next day, maybe not the next week or month, but it's what does, because it's what he is, and sooner or later he's going to kill this girl, the love of his life. Not because he's going to stop loving her, because he won't, but because that is what he is.
I really don't see how their Epic Love is any different from Bella and Edward's Epic Love. Bella really has no say in whether or not she loves Edward. No, really, she doesn't, because OMG HIS BREATH IS LIKE AN ADDICTIVE DRUG. He's a predator, designed to lure in prey by being pretty and seductive, and can make Bella's heart stop with a kiss, and exudes a scent that makes him irresistible to women. And yes, he's made a lifestyle decision that he's not going to prey on humans, but dude. All it takes is the right trigger, and then GOODBYE BELLA.
This post is way too long already, so I'm not going to get into how horribly unequal their relationship is, or how crazy it is that he's still in high school, or that OMG HE STALKED HER FOR REAL-REAL NOT FOR PLAY-PLAY, or that whenever Bella shows any sign of initiating contact or, you know, even responding slightly to Edward's kisses he's all OMG BELLA YOU'RE PLAYING WITH YOUR LIFE HOW COULD YOU?!!! thus enforcing the whole boy-having-sex = stud, girl-having-sex = slut-with-deathwish thing, and OMG.
I really don't think I'll be able to read the next one.
If you liked it, feel free to point out the error of my ways to me; I really enjoy book discussion. :D
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Date: 2008-05-18 08:02 pm (UTC)Yeah, I heard Jacob turns stupid later on...
CLAUDIA BLACK AS A VAMPIRE WHAT?!!
This is true, most relationships do have some kind of imbalance, but it just seemed to me that the imbalance was particularly bad with Bella and Edward. He's faster and stronger and more graceful and more experienced and much much older and tells her a couple of times that he's smarter than her, and I'm just not personally comfortable with a relationship with that much inequality.
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Date: 2008-05-18 08:20 pm (UTC)Yeah. In the last ep they have a kind of meeting deciding about the future of vampire kind. How and if they should interact with humans and such things. And Claudia plays one of those vampires who make decisions like that. Her character (or well, some of the characters of her type, but I guess she would have been one of those) would have come back. And it would have been so awesome. But it was not meant to be. :(
Well, I got one ep with her.
I understand that you are not comfortable with this. But maybe it is not that bad. I hope she'll get into that when she writes from his point of view. Cause really, that annoyed me. Not knowing what is going on in the others. Gah!