Wildly my mind beats against you...
OMGawd!!!! The HSM 1 canon is ruining my brain!!!! I mean, in the beginning it was fine - and I was like - hey! my fics facts will fit fine in here, my backstory filling in gaps and such. But the story went on and I'm just like..... :O And all I seem to have ever known about HSM or any type of criticism seemed to just fly from my mind. I mean, I am now even more convinced Ryan is gay - but other than that (and Chad's awesome-ness) I'm very confused.
Ashley Tisdale's awesome-ness, Vanessa Hudgens's crappy-ness..... on kind of shaky ground. And I'm hearing the mixover of Troy's voice that is SO not Zac.... and I'm just confused. I mean, Vanessa actually does okay vocally in this movie - and Ashley seems very poppy here, her true theatre voice sadly misinterpreted (which the Sharpay-ness can mostly account for) and I'm just.... GRR!
And now I realize that my story is going to have to be at least partially AU now! Chad actually says that Troy was simply the first (ever) to become a varsity starter as a sophmore. I wrote in my intro he was a starter as a freshman. I mean, he didn't say he wasn't ON varsity freshman year.... and I guess I could twist it up. But that makes me frown even farther on how HSM portrays high school basketball. Some things they've got, but other stuff is just horrible! I mean, if he's CAPTAIN and so phenomenal (which he really doesn't seem to be) as a JUNIOR than he should've been on varsity since freshman year. Even then - where're the upperclassman? Where are the seniors who would be just as good and have more high school experience for heaven's sake?! Grrr.
Up-side.... I'm more in touch with the characters so I can make them more 'in-character' in my story... and I know now exactly how much they have to change, and they whys I need (and now partially have). And now I'm even more glad I have the DVD because I'm going to have to watch parts over and over again - along with analyzing completely the interactions and repercussions and.... well - everything. And to make sure my characters are consistent... oy. This might be more than I bargained for. A LOT of backstory. And what's worse is that I can't even cleanse my inner HSM fan by watching the second movie because it all has to fit into the FIRST movie moreso than I would for the second because it all happens before. I might not even have to do anything with the second. But I probably will.
I guess it'll be a long haul, huh? Oh well - I guess that's just what the price is for a well-written, in-character Troypay.
Maybe with some anti from the HSM section I could get some stuff finished in the HM category.
-Abz
Ashley Tisdale's awesome-ness, Vanessa Hudgens's crappy-ness..... on kind of shaky ground. And I'm hearing the mixover of Troy's voice that is SO not Zac.... and I'm just confused. I mean, Vanessa actually does okay vocally in this movie - and Ashley seems very poppy here, her true theatre voice sadly misinterpreted (which the Sharpay-ness can mostly account for) and I'm just.... GRR!
And now I realize that my story is going to have to be at least partially AU now! Chad actually says that Troy was simply the first (ever) to become a varsity starter as a sophmore. I wrote in my intro he was a starter as a freshman. I mean, he didn't say he wasn't ON varsity freshman year.... and I guess I could twist it up. But that makes me frown even farther on how HSM portrays high school basketball. Some things they've got, but other stuff is just horrible! I mean, if he's CAPTAIN and so phenomenal (which he really doesn't seem to be) as a JUNIOR than he should've been on varsity since freshman year. Even then - where're the upperclassman? Where are the seniors who would be just as good and have more high school experience for heaven's sake?! Grrr.
Up-side.... I'm more in touch with the characters so I can make them more 'in-character' in my story... and I know now exactly how much they have to change, and they whys I need (and now partially have). And now I'm even more glad I have the DVD because I'm going to have to watch parts over and over again - along with analyzing completely the interactions and repercussions and.... well - everything. And to make sure my characters are consistent... oy. This might be more than I bargained for. A LOT of backstory. And what's worse is that I can't even cleanse my inner HSM fan by watching the second movie because it all has to fit into the FIRST movie moreso than I would for the second because it all happens before. I might not even have to do anything with the second. But I probably will.
I guess it'll be a long haul, huh? Oh well - I guess that's just what the price is for a well-written, in-character Troypay.
Maybe with some anti from the HSM section I could get some stuff finished in the HM category.
-Abz