Fifty Shades Freed--Epilogue (Part II) [SPORKERS: GEHAYI and KET MAKURA]

[gehayi]

Fifty Shades Freed--Epilogue (Part II)

In which we witness the not!vampire C-section, Christian decides that his fear and manpain are far more important than an adult woman making her own medical decisions, ELJ fails geography for the last time in this trilogy, and Ket, the comm and I finally have the opportunities to take our revenge.

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[sunnyskywalker]

I finally got my hands on Joanna Russ's essay "Somebody's Trying to Kill Me and I Think It's My Husband: The Modern Gothic," and I immediately thought of your 50 Shades sporkings. She could easily have written the essay today about this trilogy and Twilight and A Discovery of Witches and the rest of the Monster Boyfriend subgenre.

It's all there! The "dark, magnetic, powerful, brooding, sardonic Super-Male, who treats her brusquely, derogates her, scolds her, and otherwise shows anger or contempt for her." The heroine feeling both attracted to and terrified of the "hero." The Buried Ominous Secret. The threats to her life and--perhaps worse--to her happiness with the "hero." The exotic--at least to the author--location (one example involved an English author writing about an ancient mansion in the exotic Northern Ontario). The episodic structure with a passive, personality-less heroine who is inexplicably attractive to everyone. The obsession with decoding everyone's expressions. The threateningly worldly Other Woman. Even the