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Twilight-y stuff. (Also known as procrastination.)
So, until today I had never heard of Caitlin Flanagan (the author of To Hell With All That (2006). She is currently working on Girl Land, a book about the emotional life of pubescent girls.), and it turns out that she is a Twilight fan. (I can see why. Oooooh yes.) She has a review here, which I skimmed (lots of stuff about 'the emotional life of pubescent girls' which made my eyes glaze over), but at the top of page two I was greeted with this astonishing declaration:
Twilight is fantastic. It’s a page-turner that pops out a lurching, frightening ending I never saw coming.
What? *boggles* [ETA: Unless she means 'Breaking Dawn', in which case - absolutely!] My mind immediately sprang back to my first experience of Twilight -![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
shinga's reviews (beginning here), and her summary of the ending:
ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK IT
THE REST OF THE BOOK: *is boring*
BELLA: *gets the crap kicked out of her and it’s amazing how boring that scene actually is*
EDWARD: *saves her*
READERS: *aren’t surprised and find this incredibly predictable and stupid*
THIRTEEN YEAR OLD FANGIRLS: THAT IS SO ROMANTIC.
PLOT: *never really shows up and probably committed suicide*
THE END
READERS: So this is what a lobotomy feels like!
BELLA: I LOVE EDWARD.
~~~
I can understand the appeal of teenage fantasies and OTT romance (even if it does nothing for me), but to claim that the ending is *surprising* is... words fail me.
BUT - in happier news I also found what might be the funniest review of the movie so far: ENJOY!
Twilight is fantastic. It’s a page-turner that pops out a lurching, frightening ending I never saw coming.
What? *boggles* [ETA: Unless she means 'Breaking Dawn', in which case - absolutely!] My mind immediately sprang back to my first experience of Twilight -
shinga's reviews (beginning here), and her summary of the ending: ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW WHAT, FUCK IT
THE REST OF THE BOOK: *is boring*
BELLA: *gets the crap kicked out of her and it’s amazing how boring that scene actually is*
EDWARD: *saves her*
READERS: *aren’t surprised and find this incredibly predictable and stupid*
THIRTEEN YEAR OLD FANGIRLS: THAT IS SO ROMANTIC.
PLOT: *never really shows up and probably committed suicide*
THE END
READERS: So this is what a lobotomy feels like!
BELLA: I LOVE EDWARD.
~~~
I can understand the appeal of teenage fantasies and OTT romance (even if it does nothing for me), but to claim that the ending is *surprising* is... words fail me.
BUT - in happier news I also found what might be the funniest review of the movie so far: ENJOY!
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Wasn't it just? I must re-watch!
As a teenager I was reading sci-fi and fantasy, not romance. That might be why I really, really don't get Twilight at all.
Same here. I grew up with Tolkien, C.S.Lewis and Kipling, and as a teenager moved on to McCaffrey, Douglas Adams, the Elfquest saga (do you know them? Cutter/Leetah were my first proper ship, even though I didn't know it. Look!), Dune and a ton of other stuff.
I mean come on if you had F'lar and Lessa or Eddie and Bella as reading options, who would you choose?
You know, it had never occurred to me to compare the two until now. Do you think maybe we could sell Pern books, disguised as Twilight? Because Lessa is a role model to be proud of. (Also, it's odd to look back on those books and see all the flaws, because I never noticed back then.) (OK, so I always thought that 'Dolphins of Pern' was pants, but...)
*smuggles in a carrot for a certain plot bunny*
*ignores carrot and points to icon* Once I'm done with my Immortal epic, I shall concentrate on my Spangelly one. (OK, so it's not *actually* Spike/Angel, but a continuation of what was onscreen, BUT - you will love it, trust me.)