Re: non linear thoughtsletteredMarch 20 2007, 20:05:11 UTC
blood tie, or mystical links of any kind
No wonder you didn't want to buy Beauty and the Beast on DVD. Which I did, btw. Like, three days after you mentioned it. OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW. But yeah, they have like this empathic link, and I agree, it would be better without it. And this goes back to my Romance Pet Peeves which I've been compiling...I think what's interesting about the list is that I *used* to find these things sexy and entertaining. I used to think characters having some kind of "link" was really cool. Now I agree, it seems like a total shortcut, and things are so much more complex when it's just human being trying to connect like the rest of us. EVEN IF ONE OF THE HUMAN BEINGS IS A CAT-MAN. *coughs*
It beckons me to ignore the thirty WiPs on my Word doc with something shiny and new.
Dude. Are you me? *checks*
I do view all my fic as wish-fulfillment but most of them don't end happily, or end at all.
Yeah, it's interesting how many sad stories I still think of as wish fulfillment. It's wish fulfillment in that we wanted to see the romance addressed in this way, even if it doesn't end happy.
Re: non linear thoughtssamsomMarch 21 2007, 01:34:46 UTC
I used to think characters having some kind of "link" was really cool.
Maybe it'd be cool of the link was detrimental to both people. You know, if in case one accidently writes a blood exchange between a human and a vampire, and now is cornered by plot idea she can't get out of?
Um, but yeah. I used to think it was awesome and cool but I think we eventually get past the need to see a 'link' between two people. Attraction is a strong enough link, a complusion for someone, without convenient mystical/blood origins.
Re: non linear thoughtsletteredMarch 21 2007, 21:04:26 UTC
You know, if in case one accidently writes a blood exchange between a human and a vampire, and now is cornered by plot idea she can't get out of?
Hahaha! You're so cute. No, I think it can work. I mean, I'm loving BatB right now even thought they do have that link stuff. I just think it's something that needs to be handled both sparingly and carefully.
Re: non linear thoughtssamsomMarch 22 2007, 07:13:10 UTC
Know what I was thinking about today?
*props chin in hand*
Why Vincent never entered Katherine's apartment. He always went as far as the balcony, and no further. He'd make noise or softly call her name, and wait for her to come out. The only times I remember him entering was when she was beaten in her living room, and another time when she was kidnapped (I *know*, narrow it down much?).
I wondered if it was some odd way of keeping him separate from the world above, as if by entering her domiscile, suddenly he'd just be this big man-cat standing there in ruffles and a cape.
More seriously, maybe it represented lines he wasn't willing to cross. Yet.
Re: non linear thoughtsletteredMarch 22 2007, 16:08:41 UTC
!!!!!!!!!! I love you, you know that?
So I was reading BatB fanfic the other day and it mentioned as to how Vincent never came in Catherine's apartment, and I thought, "he has to have. All those times she was getting beaten in her living room, and kidnapped!" Then I watched some more eps and sure enough, she was getting beaten in her living room and he saved her. But then I noticed yeah, he *doesn't*.
Anyway. I thought it was lines he wasn't willing to cross, but your first theory makes a lot of sense, like, show-wise. I mean, on many levels, the premise is kinda stupid, the whole catman thing is kinda silly, and the way they dress him is...yeah, so bringing him into "real life" as it were seems even more far-fetched somehow than keeping him in this underground fantasy place.
No wonder you didn't want to buy Beauty and the Beast on DVD. Which I did, btw. Like, three days after you mentioned it. OMG I LOVE THIS SHOW. But yeah, they have like this empathic link, and I agree, it would be better without it. And this goes back to my Romance Pet Peeves which I've been compiling...I think what's interesting about the list is that I *used* to find these things sexy and entertaining. I used to think characters having some kind of "link" was really cool. Now I agree, it seems like a total shortcut, and things are so much more complex when it's just human being trying to connect like the rest of us. EVEN IF ONE OF THE HUMAN BEINGS IS A CAT-MAN. *coughs*
It beckons me to ignore the thirty WiPs on my Word doc with something shiny and new.
Dude. Are you me? *checks*
I do view all my fic as wish-fulfillment but most of them don't end happily, or end at all.
Yeah, it's interesting how many sad stories I still think of as wish fulfillment. It's wish fulfillment in that we wanted to see the romance addressed in this way, even if it doesn't end happy.
If that makes sense.
Completely.
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Maybe it'd be cool of the link was detrimental to both people. You know, if in case one accidently writes a blood exchange between a human and a vampire, and now is cornered by plot idea she can't get out of?
Um, but yeah. I used to think it was awesome and cool but I think we eventually get past the need to see a 'link' between two people. Attraction is a strong enough link, a complusion for someone, without convenient mystical/blood origins.
Dude. Are you me?
*checks birth certificate*
Nope. Still me. *g*
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Hahaha! You're so cute. No, I think it can work. I mean, I'm loving BatB right now even thought they do have that link stuff. I just think it's something that needs to be handled both sparingly and carefully.
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*props chin in hand*
Why Vincent never entered Katherine's apartment. He always went as far as the balcony, and no further. He'd make noise or softly call her name, and wait for her to come out. The only times I remember him entering was when she was beaten in her living room, and another time when she was kidnapped (I *know*, narrow it down much?).
I wondered if it was some odd way of keeping him separate from the world above, as if by entering her domiscile, suddenly he'd just be this big man-cat standing there in ruffles and a cape.
More seriously, maybe it represented lines he wasn't willing to cross. Yet.
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So I was reading BatB fanfic the other day and it mentioned as to how Vincent never came in Catherine's apartment, and I thought, "he has to have. All those times she was getting beaten in her living room, and kidnapped!" Then I watched some more eps and sure enough, she was getting beaten in her living room and he saved her. But then I noticed yeah, he *doesn't*.
Anyway. I thought it was lines he wasn't willing to cross, but your first theory makes a lot of sense, like, show-wise. I mean, on many levels, the premise is kinda stupid, the whole catman thing is kinda silly, and the way they dress him is...yeah, so bringing him into "real life" as it were seems even more far-fetched somehow than keeping him in this underground fantasy place.
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