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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.
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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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