1. Concurrence!!!!!! Which is why I don't read much romance out of the stuff that actually is romantic SF...get a new plot, y0.
3. I can get that out of a Harlequin romance, except it's 200 pages or less, and I only have to pay $0.69 at the charity shop for them--unlike the mounds of paper and printer ink that I find almost necessary to do to read long fic.
5. I like my pretty boys. I find that CLAMP and that Korean lady who draws Under a Glass Moon serve my needs on that end pretty well, and I don't have to look at HP characters to get it either.
Actually I used to like the anime-style HP fanart until around last year when I was looking at some Snape site--where he was actually wearing robes--and I commented to startredder "Is that Snape? It could possibly be mid-series Honor Harrington in a particularly bad green dress." I had to wash my mind out after that, and I didn't go looking for HP fanart again.
But I like anime-style fan art. Of course, I like anime, which probably makes a big difference. I've never heard you talk about anime, so I'm assuiming you don't really care for anime. Thus, your tastes would be a bit different from mine. Of course, I'm honestly not a big fan of fan art in general ... Like movies, it tends to take away from how I see a character when I'm reading.
I kind of agree with number 1 and really agree with number 2 though. :)
Amen to numbers 1,2,3 & 5 (especially five!), and I have a feeling that the only reason I'm not saying 'amen' to number four as well is that I don't follow that fandom. #5 especially bugs me, if only because it tends to make the characters so... pretty.
#1. Indeed. Not the foundation for a romance. At the very best, the foundation for a one-night-stand. But far more likely to be met with a slap in the face by any reasonable woman. And if the kisser was a woman, then that's really wierd. I'd suspect drugs. Or alien mind-control. Or any other reason which results in someone not being in their right mind.
#3. 3,000 pages of senseless misunderstandings, petty jealousies, yelling matches and shocking revelations does not constitute a viable plot.
Indeed, indeed. But it seems to be the staple of soap operas. Which is why I can't stand them. Nor Roswell, nor Beauty and the Beast -- though what really irritated me about Beauty and the Beast (I mean the TV series) was that Catherine was a self-pitying wishy-washy wimp. If she really loved Vincent, she should either have gone with him, or brought him out with her, and stared down anyone who dared to whisper about him. Humph! (hmmm, got a bit carried away there...) Buffy at its worst is also soap-opera-ish.
I loved Beauty and the Beast when it first aired, and I was devastated when it ended in such an abrupt and stupid way. But a few years back I rented a video of two B&tB episodes and found myself squirming uncomfortably at the soppiness of it all. All those breathy conversations and long tortured glances did get pretty darn old after a while...
Vincent was purty, though, and Ron Perlman had a lovely voice.
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3. I can get that out of a Harlequin romance, except it's 200 pages or less, and I only have to pay $0.69 at the charity shop for them--unlike the mounds of paper and printer ink that I find almost necessary to do to read long fic.
5. I like my pretty boys. I find that CLAMP and that Korean lady who draws Under a Glass Moon serve my needs on that end pretty well, and I don't have to look at HP characters to get it either.
Actually I used to like the anime-style HP fanart until around last year when I was looking at some Snape site--where he was actually wearing robes--and I commented to startredder "Is that Snape? It could possibly be mid-series Honor Harrington in a particularly bad green dress." I had to wash my mind out after that, and I didn't go looking for HP fanart again.
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But I like anime-style fan art. Of course, I like anime, which probably makes a big difference. I've never heard you talk about anime, so I'm assuiming you don't really care for anime. Thus, your tastes would be a bit different from mine. Of course, I'm honestly not a big fan of fan art in general ... Like movies, it tends to take away from how I see a character when I'm reading.
I kind of agree with number 1 and really agree with number 2 though. :)
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#3. 3,000 pages of senseless misunderstandings, petty jealousies, yelling matches and shocking revelations does not constitute a viable plot.
Indeed, indeed. But it seems to be the staple of soap operas. Which is why I can't stand them. Nor Roswell, nor Beauty and the Beast -- though what really irritated me about Beauty and the Beast (I mean the TV series) was that Catherine was a self-pitying wishy-washy wimp. If she really loved Vincent, she should either have gone with him, or brought him out with her, and stared down anyone who dared to whisper about him. Humph!
(hmmm, got a bit carried away there...)
Buffy at its worst is also soap-opera-ish.
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Vincent was purty, though, and Ron Perlman had a lovely voice.
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