Day 23 - Most Annoying Character
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thessalianAnother complicated question for the 30 Days of TV meme. Because ... you know, do we include characters who are supposed to be annoying? Because there are a lot of TV characters who are supposed to be annoying and it seems shameful to hold it against them.
So instead, for those few Ultraviolet fans on my flist, I will go with Kirsty. She's whiny. She's clingy. She's childish. She's more or less useless and on the whole, she's nothing more than a plot device. And she's supposed to be the love interest and I don't get why. I do not see chemistry between her and Michael. I don't know what he sees in her - what any sane man sees in her, frankly. I wanted to shake Michael and scream, "Oh, for pity's sake, go get back together with Frances! She obviously still loves you and you two have chemistry and she has a brain!" She needed a life in the worst possible way, as per commentary from her undead ex-fiance, and dear gods do I wish there'd been better writing or something for that character so I could see why the male lead was pining over her so. Beyond her being pretty.
...Basically, she's Bella Swan.
On that subject, I got pointed at this fine review of the latest Twilight film. Yeah, Eclipse is out and they're actually making Breaking Dawn (how they're going to keep that movie PG-rated I have no idea) so it's not over yet. I will be glad when it is, but I somehow think that, given "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" ... Meyer isn't going to let it be over until the publishers can't wring any more money out of her. She's got an ego the size of Cleveland and a nearly psychotic belief in the power of 'her vision', and her publishers just see dollar signs. I almost feel sorry for her because I know the day will come when the Twilight fad has passed and the publishers aren't fawning all over her anymore and she likely won't have the foggiest clue what to do with herself when she realises that when they said they appreciated her artistic vision, they meant 'the money they were making out of a bunch of teenage girls'. (Because let's face it, no matter how old they are - whether one's Twihard is a high school student, uni student, housewife, career woman or 83-year-old granny - they are still, in heart and mind, teenagers.)
I still wish I knew why Twilight even got published. It's not like it's new and innovative storytelling. I mean, Charlaine Harris was doing it years before anyone had ever heard of Meyer ... okay, without the sparkles, but still. I swear, I have no idea what her agent or publisher or both were smoking...
So instead, for those few Ultraviolet fans on my flist, I will go with Kirsty. She's whiny. She's clingy. She's childish. She's more or less useless and on the whole, she's nothing more than a plot device. And she's supposed to be the love interest and I don't get why. I do not see chemistry between her and Michael. I don't know what he sees in her - what any sane man sees in her, frankly. I wanted to shake Michael and scream, "Oh, for pity's sake, go get back together with Frances! She obviously still loves you and you two have chemistry and she has a brain!" She needed a life in the worst possible way, as per commentary from her undead ex-fiance, and dear gods do I wish there'd been better writing or something for that character so I could see why the male lead was pining over her so. Beyond her being pretty.
...Basically, she's Bella Swan.
On that subject, I got pointed at this fine review of the latest Twilight film. Yeah, Eclipse is out and they're actually making Breaking Dawn (how they're going to keep that movie PG-rated I have no idea) so it's not over yet. I will be glad when it is, but I somehow think that, given "The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner" ... Meyer isn't going to let it be over until the publishers can't wring any more money out of her. She's got an ego the size of Cleveland and a nearly psychotic belief in the power of 'her vision', and her publishers just see dollar signs. I almost feel sorry for her because I know the day will come when the Twilight fad has passed and the publishers aren't fawning all over her anymore and she likely won't have the foggiest clue what to do with herself when she realises that when they said they appreciated her artistic vision, they meant 'the money they were making out of a bunch of teenage girls'. (Because let's face it, no matter how old they are - whether one's Twihard is a high school student, uni student, housewife, career woman or 83-year-old granny - they are still, in heart and mind, teenagers.)
I still wish I knew why Twilight even got published. It's not like it's new and innovative storytelling. I mean, Charlaine Harris was doing it years before anyone had ever heard of Meyer ... okay, without the sparkles, but still. I swear, I have no idea what her agent or publisher or both were smoking...
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Date: 2010-06-29 02:02 pm (UTC)But I always saw Michaels thing for her being the hopeless, unrequited infatuation that does happen. Yeah, he could show that a bit more, but that is why there's no chemistry, he doesn't figure in her world in that fashion.
On twilight: It had the "Oooh!" of romance, the "Gasp!" of suggestions of sex, but without the scary possibility of actual crotch-banging. That's what the people that liked it responded to.
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Date: 2010-06-29 02:20 pm (UTC)Until there was actual 'crotch-banging', which was about as erotic as blunt-force trauma, followed by fast-growing, pelvis-crushing, spine-breaking hellspawn. Who then turned out to be every parents' fantasy of a child's first years - sleeps through the night, never cries, apparently born toilet-trained and able to articulate all its wants instead of leaving a parent to guess by the volume and tone of the screaming. Apparently, in Meyer's world, childrearing is all rainbows and fluffy kittens, whereas getting pregnant is a nightmare of pain and bloodshed, and sex is brutality.
...I think that woman has problems.
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-29 04:41 pm (UTC)And why are so many grown women - many of whom admit they know it's crap - enthralled by it?
ETA the perfect icon. *g*