One Mary Sue is much like another

[veronica_rich]

You know, if you're a fan of a "forbidden couple" in your own favorite fandom, I would think the very last thing you would want to do is point and laugh and make fun of teenage girls who love the lead couple in "Twilight."

And anyone who wants to go to the movie to do nothing but point and laugh? Wait a couple of months until it's at the dollar theater. Better yet, wait to rent the DVD. Or buy the book and scream with laughter at home. Let the girls go get their fun out of it first - they're not paying $10 to listen to your "witticisms" and cutting remarks about their taste or relative intelligence. It's an escape - it may not be Chaucer, but it's what they enjoy. I don't believe I would enjoy the books or the movie based on what I've read, but I wouldn't shell out my own money to deliberately ruin somebody else's theatrical experience.

I'm just saying.

Comments

[justawench.livejournal.com]

I suspect if I were 13, I'd be all over Twilight. However, the previews make it look cheesy and trite and I've already been through a vampire phase and gotten over it.

The leading dude doesn't match my ideal of male beauty either, so it has no redeeming value to me. *is shallow* ;)

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

My vampire phase was in the 90s with Anne Rice (to be honest, I liked her witch books more than the vampire ones - I need to reread those). I didn't dress up or drink "blood" or anything, but I liked the books and her examinations of heaven and hell.

Yeah, even if I found the lead actor attractive, I would just feel weird about it. He's way too young for me.

[justawench.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too and I agree: the vampire books kind of went off in a ditch after the first two or three. I remember really enjoying The Mummy and wishing there was a sequel to it, since she left the ending open.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

That was a good one ... I liked "Cry to Heaven" as well (probably because at the time I kept picturing Orlando in the lead role, since her description of his appearance just LOOKED so much like him *G*).

[justawench.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, that was an early slashy encouragement for me. I didn't know who Orlando Bloom was at the time, though, so the main character was generic in my mind. :)