RL roundup

[ladyaeryn]

-- Wow, a lot of the female SW fans (and several of the Twilight ones too) on my f-list feel strongly about that "Twilight = Girl!SW?" thing. I got more response from my off-hand comment to that issue than the CW episode discussion

Comments

[sarah_mitt]

Oh my gosh so much to comment on. I'll try to be short though. You said that Edward doesn't do anything for you and I realized that he is just so pale in this movie that I find him not as attractive as he is suppose to be but I thought he was totally cute as Cedric.

I read time travelers wife for a book club at my church and I hated it but I had another friend who loved it so maybe its just me.

[ladyaeryn]

The paleness is definitely the bulk of it. I can't see how ANYONE could find that attractive in a man. Even Joss's vampires had a little color in their cheeks.

I've only just started TTW, but I can already tell this is probably one you either really love or really don't. My gut impression so far is that I like it, but I've still got 450+ pages to go. :P

[may_child]

Angel > Edward. 'Nuff said.

I was in the bookstore today with a friend, perusing the mags, and as I expected, the Twilight cast was on the cover of every magazine except "Modern Electronics."

OK, OK, I'm exaggerating. But anyway...there were two mags with Robert Pattinson on the cover side-by-side, one where he had his white facepaint or makeup or whatever the hell it is on, and one where he didn't. Without the makeup, I could kindasortamaybe see what might make him so squee-worthy to 12-year-old girls, but when he's got his makeup on, nada. Pale is one thing. Paper-white is entirely another.

[ladyaeryn]

Yeah, at least Angel has a little color in his cheeks. He still pulls a lot of the same crap Edward pulls, but at least Buffy puts up with it less than Bella does.

Pattinson was cute in the fourth Harry Potter movie. But the rolled-in-flour look just doesn't work on anyone.

[may_child]

Yep, Buffy wasn't one to moon and mope, poetically or otherwise. And she quite literally kicked Angel(us)'s ass more than once.

Totally agree with your avatar, by the way. How I wish they could've had Angel regain his humanity and reunite with Buffy at the end of his eponymous series, rather than in the first season.

[ladyaeryn]

Yup. When Angel went bad (and later then when he dumped her), she cried for a while, but she got back up and fought because she knew life wasn't going to wait for her. When he "died," she did leave town, but there was a lot more at stake (pun not intended ;)) than just losing her boyfriend: he'd just been redeemed and she still had to destroy him to save the world, her mom had just kicked her out, she was expelled from school, she was suspected of murdering a friend. And after a few months, she did come back, whereas at that same point in New Moon Bella's still moping in front of her window. You know, I almost do want to do a writeup in the ways Buffy is infinitely superior to Bella, but that would definitely mean I would have to try the books...

I liked the way both shows ended, really - I'm content with the idea of Buffy taking sometime to find her non-relationship self with the possibility left open that she might reunite with Angel (or whoever makes her happy) at some point.

[may_child]

Oh yeah, when she sent him to hell to save the world right after he'd regained his soul -- I'm not ashamed to admit I cried my eyes out starting there and continued on through the rest of the episode. The only time Buffy did what could be called "moping" was when she was on the bus leaving Sunnydale, looking out the window. But even if she was a tad mopey there...well, she'd only received roughly three thousand blows to the solar plexus by then