How the heck could you be a scary lurker? You've been here for weeks..
*shifty eyes* No I haven't...*throws self under bush*
Don't we all? I haven't read it, but I have so much fun reading snark about it. I really don't understand why some people love it so much.
*sigh* It's basically just about fantasies and wish fulfillment and unrealistic, adolescent notions about love. Even though, really, the whole thing just has a squick factor, despite everyone saying how 'romantic' it is. Because hearing about how someone watches me sleeping every night, like Edward does with Bella, well, that would really make me want to engage in a tortuously long and angsty relationship with them. *eye roll*
Exactly. And plus, Edward? Hardly the perfect boyfriend. He's more a semi-abusive stalker with a martyrdom complex. Kinda creepy, really.
Iknorite! He's all like 'I hate you. Go away.' But then he's like 'I said it because I want to eat you so much and can't be near you', and that makes it romantic? Hmmm...This somehow isn't the worst aspects of Bangel on steroids? Plus there's the part where he's always telling Bella what she should do for her own safety or whatever. And then she does the stupid thing anyways, and he's like 'You're dumb and suicidal'. *sigh*
And, hey, look what I found on Whedonesque! A very, very accurate article comparing Bella to Buffy! And here it is. (If it gives you some weird ad thing, just click Enter in the top right.) It makes some very good points about how Edward basically becomes Bella's entire life, and how Buffy, while she does experience love, does have other stuff to do. And how Bella's really wimpy and damsel-in-distress-y - not that she has to have super powers, but she's really emotionally weak. And how she basically has no personality so any girl reading it can substitute themselves for Bella and experience the oh-so-perfect love of the oh-so-perfect vampire. It's quite interesting, IMO.
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Date: 2008-07-31 01:07 am (UTC)*shifty eyes* No I haven't...*throws self under bush*
Don't we all? I haven't read it, but I have so much fun reading snark about it. I really don't understand why some people love it so much.
*sigh* It's basically just about fantasies and wish fulfillment and unrealistic, adolescent notions about love. Even though, really, the whole thing just has a squick factor, despite everyone saying how 'romantic' it is. Because hearing about how someone watches me sleeping every night, like Edward does with Bella, well, that would really make me want to engage in a tortuously long and angsty relationship with them. *eye roll*
Exactly. And plus, Edward? Hardly the perfect boyfriend. He's more a semi-abusive stalker with a martyrdom complex. Kinda creepy, really.
Iknorite! He's all like 'I hate you. Go away.' But then he's like 'I said it because I want to eat you so much and can't be near you', and that makes it romantic? Hmmm...This somehow isn't the worst aspects of Bangel on steroids? Plus there's the part where he's always telling Bella what she should do for her own safety or whatever. And then she does the stupid thing anyways, and he's like 'You're dumb and suicidal'. *sigh*
And, hey, look what I found on Whedonesque! A very, very accurate article comparing Bella to Buffy! And here it is. (If it gives you some weird ad thing, just click Enter in the top right.) It makes some very good points about how Edward basically becomes Bella's entire life, and how Buffy, while she does experience love, does have other stuff to do. And how Bella's really wimpy and damsel-in-distress-y - not that she has to have super powers, but she's really emotionally weak. And how she basically has no personality so any girl reading it can substitute themselves for Bella and experience the oh-so-perfect love of the oh-so-perfect vampire. It's quite interesting, IMO.