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30 December 2007 10:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darnaguenMmh, during the past week or so I've had so much going on in my head I've been dying to write down but haven't had time, strength or possibility to do so due to a) spending the Christmas at my mom's place b) falling once again mysteriously ill (another of those strange and unexplainable muscle cramp spells plus a high fever, this time I even had to spend some time at the medical center under surveillance, oh joy) c) probably as an after-effect of said illness, being generally lethargic and tired.
But anyway. Rant time.
I bought the second book of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, New Moon, for myself as a Christmas present and realized something a bit surprising while reading it. In case there's someone who wants to read it and hasn't yet reading this, I'll put the spoilery parts under a cut.
So. When I first read Twilight a year or two ago, I was as happily enthralled by Edward and Bella's love story as anyone else. But a while ago I ran into a spoiler about a love triangle of sorts starting to form between Edward, Bella and Jacob. I went "Huh?!".
But true enough, when I re-read Twilight before starting New Moon, I kind of saw it through different eyes. Something bothered me. Then I started reading New Moon.
Blissful couplyness. Shadows in paradise. Big drama. Exit Edward. Enter Jacob. Colour me thrilled.
Maybe I have an obvious bias, but as soon as there were werewolves in picture, I immediately sided with them. Don't get me wrong, I do love the Cullens. Alice especially I adore, her and her Jasper.
But... I think what really bothers me is... Edward. There, I said it.
I know everyone is supposed to love him and all that jazz, but when compared to Jacob things that bother me about him are even more visible. He's cocky, melodramatic, manipulative and too boringly perfect (and it doesn't help that they cast Cedric effing Diggory to play him in the movie, Henry Cavill I could have endured).
And the blind, adoring, almost worshipful way Bella loves him just doesn't sit right with me.
Go ahead and call me unromantic, but the idea of loving someone like that freaks me out.
I would never want to be so dependent on someone else that I would rather die than be parted from them (or rather, not want to live if I was parted from them). I would of course give my life for my loved ones without a second thought, but building my happiness, my whole existence, on someone else is to me a completely appalling thought (as a side note, that actually is one of the main reasons why I cannot respect Tarja Turunen. She allows her self-esteem and her whole life depend on her creep of a husband because she is so blindly in love with him. Sick.)
But anyway. Then there's Jacob Black. I now have to quote a blog I ran into at random:
"Why would Bella go for some cold undead guy (who I like too . . . but not as much) when she could have a hot wolf man on a motorcycle???" Quoted for truth.
In Twilight he was a gangly, awkward youth from the Quileute reservate who was quite smitten with Bella and told her werewolf legends of his people. In New Moon he is still the same gentle, good-natured lad but somehow also much more mature, in more than one way. Tall, strong, confident, and wise beyond his years. He seems to intuitively understand how Bella feels and never expects anything from her she isn't ready to give. And also, he's now a werewolf. *grin* Which makes him (even more) hot. Literally. I don't quite understand why he had to cut his long beautiful hair because of it, though. *pout*
It was so easy to start rooting for him, even without Edward acting like a melodramatic control-freak.
I don't know what the author wanted to achieve by throwing in the whole Jacob arc, but at least to me it was extremely hard to be happy about the blissful reunion of "Romeo and Juliet" when all I could do was to feel sorry for "Paris". There is still the third book, Eclipse (and possibly more to come), which I'll probably just go and buy in English before I manage to spoil myself rotten, but somehow I don't expect things to end up well for poor Jake and his adorable little pack. Meh. :/
But yes, what I actually realized was that I once again rebelled against the canon "main couple" and rooted for the underdog. When I started to think about it, I do that quite a lot.
It's actually very rarely that I support "the good ship" if there is an interesting alternative available.
Let's see...
Arwen and Aragorn? Boring! Éowyn and Faramir all the way.
One of the biggest faults of the otherwise brilliant movie trilogy was what they did to Faramir, including his beautiful romance with Éowyn which actually is the only visible romance there is in the book. They walk together in the garden and on the city walls, they talk, they confess to each other their dreams and fears, they even banter. What's not to love?
Jean and Scott? Well, pretty much anything involving good ol' Slim is enough to bore anyone into tears.
Plus, while I know perfectly well that by a long run the whole idea of Jean and Logan is completely absurd, his undying, unrequited love and devotion for her is something truly amazing. But well, my main ship in that fandom is Gambit/Rogue anyway. They're way too fucked-up and complicated to probably ever become boring. :D
Jack and Kate? Jate is fate, my ass. They don't even bore me, they make me cringe.
Jack makes me wish he would die a painful death every time he's on screen, and every time Kate is with him, I want to slap her. She completely forgets she's a competent badass bitch and becomes a sniveling, simpering wuss who practically grovels for his acceptance, and he doesn't help by patronizing her. What a great romance. *rolls eyes* And I don't say this just because I'm a so-called Skater, I'd be completely pleased if she ran off with Sayid or something, as long as it isn't Jack. But I hope beyond hope that she would stick with Sawyer. *sigh*
Will and Elizabeth... well, don't even get me started on them! Because that would never end.
In Harry Potter I could never care less about the relationships between the protagonists, it was always the side characters I found more intriguing anyway.
Actually, I think that out of all my 'ships, only Buffy and Angel have been a "good ship", and them I started shipping when I was 14 or something. Drizzt and Catti-brie are generally accepted as the main couple now (after years of indecisive on-offness, thoug), but they weren't that originally and Wulfgar was still around for a long time even after their relationship started to develop.
Shipping is pretty illogical business, and not all of my ships follow the same pattern, but most of them do. I've come to the conclusion that I usually root for relationships that are based on good companionship and/or some kind of deeper connection, mutual understanding. Which probably isn't all that surprising, considering that's the kind of love I would like to find one day. *chuckle*
Mmh. I had much more to write/rant about, but my brain's apparently not functioning properly again. Could be my screwed-up sleeping pattern, I woke up at midnight so I'm starting to feel a bit dizzy. I can't go to sleep yet, though, otherwise I'll never regain a normal pattern.
New Year's Eve tomorrow. I have no idea where I'll be. Possibly in Laitila, possibly in here. With Tommi I'm apparently at odds again at least. He saw himself justified to get mad at me because I couldn't answer the phone when I was at the med center. Pshh, whatever. He's not my pack leader.
I somehow don't want this year to end. Or actually, I don't want year 2008 to start.
I don't know why, I just have a strange, uncomfortable feeling about it.
But anyway. Rant time.
I bought the second book of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, New Moon, for myself as a Christmas present and realized something a bit surprising while reading it. In case there's someone who wants to read it and hasn't yet reading this, I'll put the spoilery parts under a cut.
So. When I first read Twilight a year or two ago, I was as happily enthralled by Edward and Bella's love story as anyone else. But a while ago I ran into a spoiler about a love triangle of sorts starting to form between Edward, Bella and Jacob. I went "Huh?!".
But true enough, when I re-read Twilight before starting New Moon, I kind of saw it through different eyes. Something bothered me. Then I started reading New Moon.
Blissful couplyness. Shadows in paradise. Big drama. Exit Edward. Enter Jacob. Colour me thrilled.
Maybe I have an obvious bias, but as soon as there were werewolves in picture, I immediately sided with them. Don't get me wrong, I do love the Cullens. Alice especially I adore, her and her Jasper.
But... I think what really bothers me is... Edward. There, I said it.
I know everyone is supposed to love him and all that jazz, but when compared to Jacob things that bother me about him are even more visible. He's cocky, melodramatic, manipulative and too boringly perfect (and it doesn't help that they cast Cedric effing Diggory to play him in the movie, Henry Cavill I could have endured).
And the blind, adoring, almost worshipful way Bella loves him just doesn't sit right with me.
Go ahead and call me unromantic, but the idea of loving someone like that freaks me out.
I would never want to be so dependent on someone else that I would rather die than be parted from them (or rather, not want to live if I was parted from them). I would of course give my life for my loved ones without a second thought, but building my happiness, my whole existence, on someone else is to me a completely appalling thought (as a side note, that actually is one of the main reasons why I cannot respect Tarja Turunen. She allows her self-esteem and her whole life depend on her creep of a husband because she is so blindly in love with him. Sick.)
But anyway. Then there's Jacob Black. I now have to quote a blog I ran into at random:
"Why would Bella go for some cold undead guy (who I like too . . . but not as much) when she could have a hot wolf man on a motorcycle???" Quoted for truth.
In Twilight he was a gangly, awkward youth from the Quileute reservate who was quite smitten with Bella and told her werewolf legends of his people. In New Moon he is still the same gentle, good-natured lad but somehow also much more mature, in more than one way. Tall, strong, confident, and wise beyond his years. He seems to intuitively understand how Bella feels and never expects anything from her she isn't ready to give. And also, he's now a werewolf. *grin* Which makes him (even more) hot. Literally. I don't quite understand why he had to cut his long beautiful hair because of it, though. *pout*
It was so easy to start rooting for him, even without Edward acting like a melodramatic control-freak.
I don't know what the author wanted to achieve by throwing in the whole Jacob arc, but at least to me it was extremely hard to be happy about the blissful reunion of "Romeo and Juliet" when all I could do was to feel sorry for "Paris". There is still the third book, Eclipse (and possibly more to come), which I'll probably just go and buy in English before I manage to spoil myself rotten, but somehow I don't expect things to end up well for poor Jake and his adorable little pack. Meh. :/
But yes, what I actually realized was that I once again rebelled against the canon "main couple" and rooted for the underdog. When I started to think about it, I do that quite a lot.
It's actually very rarely that I support "the good ship" if there is an interesting alternative available.
Let's see...
Arwen and Aragorn? Boring! Éowyn and Faramir all the way.
One of the biggest faults of the otherwise brilliant movie trilogy was what they did to Faramir, including his beautiful romance with Éowyn which actually is the only visible romance there is in the book. They walk together in the garden and on the city walls, they talk, they confess to each other their dreams and fears, they even banter. What's not to love?
Jean and Scott? Well, pretty much anything involving good ol' Slim is enough to bore anyone into tears.
Plus, while I know perfectly well that by a long run the whole idea of Jean and Logan is completely absurd, his undying, unrequited love and devotion for her is something truly amazing. But well, my main ship in that fandom is Gambit/Rogue anyway. They're way too fucked-up and complicated to probably ever become boring. :D
Jack and Kate? Jate is fate, my ass. They don't even bore me, they make me cringe.
Jack makes me wish he would die a painful death every time he's on screen, and every time Kate is with him, I want to slap her. She completely forgets she's a competent badass bitch and becomes a sniveling, simpering wuss who practically grovels for his acceptance, and he doesn't help by patronizing her. What a great romance. *rolls eyes* And I don't say this just because I'm a so-called Skater, I'd be completely pleased if she ran off with Sayid or something, as long as it isn't Jack. But I hope beyond hope that she would stick with Sawyer. *sigh*
Will and Elizabeth... well, don't even get me started on them! Because that would never end.
In Harry Potter I could never care less about the relationships between the protagonists, it was always the side characters I found more intriguing anyway.
Actually, I think that out of all my 'ships, only Buffy and Angel have been a "good ship", and them I started shipping when I was 14 or something. Drizzt and Catti-brie are generally accepted as the main couple now (after years of indecisive on-offness, thoug), but they weren't that originally and Wulfgar was still around for a long time even after their relationship started to develop.
Shipping is pretty illogical business, and not all of my ships follow the same pattern, but most of them do. I've come to the conclusion that I usually root for relationships that are based on good companionship and/or some kind of deeper connection, mutual understanding. Which probably isn't all that surprising, considering that's the kind of love I would like to find one day. *chuckle*
Mmh. I had much more to write/rant about, but my brain's apparently not functioning properly again. Could be my screwed-up sleeping pattern, I woke up at midnight so I'm starting to feel a bit dizzy. I can't go to sleep yet, though, otherwise I'll never regain a normal pattern.
New Year's Eve tomorrow. I have no idea where I'll be. Possibly in Laitila, possibly in here. With Tommi I'm apparently at odds again at least. He saw himself justified to get mad at me because I couldn't answer the phone when I was at the med center. Pshh, whatever. He's not my pack leader.
I somehow don't want this year to end. Or actually, I don't want year 2008 to start.
I don't know why, I just have a strange, uncomfortable feeling about it.
