Double Standards (or, Bella's womb and mutant fetuses make me giggle)

[gioiamia]

I really should stop giggling at the more obsessed Twilight fans.  It's completely hypocritical of me, seeing as I avidly fangirl shows about aliens (some of the teenage) and wizards (most of them teenage).  So why should I snicker and point at the more obsessive fans of teenage vampires in a book I've yet to read (but will read eventually, I swear

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[captain91]

*gag*
*retch*

that is just disgusting. if that's what they enjoy t read then i have no problem with that, but surely there still are some limits?

...then again if the doc ever got soemone pregnant in canon i can thi k of a few people who would be inline ot make a human/galiphreyian model!

[gioiamia]

It's definitely pushing the limit, that's for sure! But you're right - whatever fandom we're in, there will always be those who would do something that over the top! :-D

[harmony_bites]

Well, I snicker and point--and it's not about the fan doings per se. You know we have full frontal nuts--vicious ones at that--in Harry Potter.

But really, I'm with King on the difference in quality between the source material. And if you think the felted womb is creepy, take a look at the inspiration, Breaking Dawn where Bella has her demon baby break her ribs, her pelvis, her spine, before eating its way out of her womb killing her.... (But it's OK, cuz Edward's venom gets to her in time to change her over).

No, I'm not making this up. And I guess I should feel guilty for spoiling you. Feel free to slap me. But really, is the above really weird in context of that. And that is a professionally published bestseller.

[gioiamia]

Yeah, don't feel too guilty about spoiling me. Making me want to throw up, on the other hand, you should be soooo remorseful for that! :-P

*peers at Harmony*

Hmm... you don't look that remorseful...

The felt womb thing is so over the top that it really is impossible not to giggle. But I have to admit I really do feel a tiny bit (just a tiny bit) guilty about laughing too much over Twilight, because I figure that if I think about it, people could probably pull similarly ludicrous plot points out of Roswell, Harry Potter, and Doctor Who.

But mostly I think that if I tell myself all that, acknowledging the silly things in my own fandoms, then I'm just giving myself an excuse to continue mocking Twilight. Because after all, so long as I publicly acknowledge my double standard, that makes it okay to continue to point and laugh, right?

[harmony_bites]

I figure that if I think about it, people could probably pull similarly ludicrous plot points out of Roswell, Harry Potter, and Doctor Who.

I can't absolutely vouch for Roswell or Doctor Who, only saw one episode of Doctor Who (at Wonderful's urging--didn't like it) and never saw Roswell. And God knows Rowling has plot holes of doom, but Good God, I refuse to believe anything can be more ludicrous than Twilight even before the baby of doom (tm)