Meme: Ridley and Ruby enjoying fast food together at the Daree Keen and complaining about boys.
Which is to say that I am also a fan of the BC series, although I only ever managed to get through the first 2.5 books (and I tried twice...). I loved the first book, but I started losing patience with the plot in the second and threw in the towel in the third. But I still adore the characters- one of the things I appreciated the most about the series to begin with was how awesome the secondary characters were, like Ridley and Link and Marian and Amma (although these authors have the same misogynistic problem of making the other high school girls out to be ~evil bitches, like Savannah and Emily, in comparison to Lena). Also, the setting- there are so few fantasy books set in the south, and Gatlin is *so* vividly drawn. Where are you in the series?
FWIW, I also loved the movie, although mainstream critics panned it. It's actually one of the few adaptations where I think they did a better job than the book- plot-wise at least (can you tell I'm really not a fan of the plot). The actors were really great, especially Lena, Ethan, and Ridley (and of course Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson were as superb as always).
It's just that boys are so stupid with their hair (I know right) and their pants the way they always are (sooo stupid!) and their lame music (it's like they've never heard of the simple concept of harmonies) (or music past 1980) and their moonie eyes (guh don't they know we are //evil//) and their soft lips (and always long eyelashes I mean puhlease go away).
Cause we are totes evil and who needs stupid boys anyway, they always eat all the french fries.
(Except when they are cute and warm and look up at you like it doesn't matter if you think you're evil they still think you hung the moon and really we are perfect so why deny it?)
Cheers.
♥♥♥
I finished the series a few hours after I posted the meme probably. All in all the plot is inconsistent (but idk... Link being controlled by Rid doesn't sit right with me in theory? I'll have to watch the movie)
Honestly worth it for Ridley and Marian and LIZ and John and Macon and Amma and LINK and basically all the old ladies and Macon and yeah.
I really... I mean I see what you are saying about Savannah Snow and misogyny, but with all the references to Kill a Mockingbird (and later the Crucible) and the fact that NONE of the male characters are portrayed with more sympathy, I read all of that as a commentary on small town resistance to change and difference. More Shirley Jackson's The Lottery than Mean Girls I guess.
I can totally see the critique in that reading. Throughout I saw it more as a critique of mob mentality and "tradition" and an entire culture stuck in one place. (Ironically the Sisters and the Greats and Amma, while representing the Past, are more open-minded in the end. Which is super interesting to me, as our society is not very respectful of the elderly.)
I... am okay with the plot? There are holes and inconsistencies, but I think that is more a case of an unreliable narrator than anything else. There's a whole world of cool stuff potentially going on that isn't resolved or explained because a 16yo boy just. .. wouldn't notice, understand, or care.
So I love it in the long run. And think they did a good job creating a multitude of fascinating and lovable characters.
That said. I'd love a novel from Liz' perspective or something. Something else in the same universe that explains everything I think they didn't explain fully because Ethan is a twit.
Which is to say that I am also a fan of the BC series, although I only ever managed to get through the first 2.5 books (and I tried twice...). I loved the first book, but I started losing patience with the plot in the second and threw in the towel in the third. But I still adore the characters- one of the things I appreciated the most about the series to begin with was how awesome the secondary characters were, like Ridley and Link and Marian and Amma (although these authors have the same misogynistic problem of making the other high school girls out to be ~evil bitches, like Savannah and Emily, in comparison to Lena). Also, the setting- there are so few fantasy books set in the south, and Gatlin is *so* vividly drawn. Where are you in the series?
FWIW, I also loved the movie, although mainstream critics panned it. It's actually one of the few adaptations where I think they did a better job than the book- plot-wise at least (can you tell I'm really not a fan of the plot). The actors were really great, especially Lena, Ethan, and Ridley (and of course Viola Davis, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson were as superb as always).
Just in case Tumblr ate my message, you could try finding Jo/Anna fic at the SPN weird-news comm, which is for rare pairs: http://spn-weirdnews.livejournal.com/tag/s%3A%20anna%2Fjo (link is for the Anna/Jo tag)
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It's just that boys are so stupid with their hair (I know right) and their pants the way they always are (sooo stupid!) and their lame music (it's like they've never heard of the simple concept of harmonies) (or music past 1980) and their moonie eyes (guh don't they know we are //evil//) and their soft lips (and always long eyelashes I mean puhlease go away).
Cause we are totes evil and who needs stupid boys anyway, they always eat all the french fries.
(Except when they are cute and warm and look up at you like it doesn't matter if you think you're evil they still think you hung the moon and really we are perfect so why deny it?)
Cheers.
♥♥♥
I finished the series a few hours after I posted the meme probably. All in all the plot is inconsistent (but idk... Link being controlled by Rid doesn't sit right with me in theory? I'll have to watch the movie)
Honestly worth it for Ridley and Marian and LIZ and John and Macon and Amma and LINK and basically all the old ladies and Macon and yeah.
I really... I mean I see what you are saying about Savannah Snow and misogyny, but with all the references to Kill a Mockingbird (and later the Crucible) and the fact that NONE of the male characters are portrayed with more sympathy, I read all of that as a commentary on small town resistance to change and difference. More Shirley Jackson's The Lottery than Mean Girls I guess.
I can totally see the critique in that reading. Throughout I saw it more as a critique of mob mentality and "tradition" and an entire culture stuck in one place. (Ironically the Sisters and the Greats and Amma, while representing the Past, are more open-minded in the end. Which is super interesting to me, as our society is not very respectful of the elderly.)
I... am okay with the plot? There are holes and inconsistencies, but I think that is more a case of an unreliable narrator than anything else. There's a whole world of cool stuff potentially going on that isn't resolved or explained because a 16yo boy just. .. wouldn't notice, understand, or care.
So I love it in the long run. And think they did a good job creating a multitude of fascinating and lovable characters.
That said. I'd love a novel from Liz' perspective or something. Something else in the same universe that explains everything I think they didn't explain fully because Ethan is a twit.
Seriously.
((Omg I keep forgetting to go to that link YES!))
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