The Short Second Life Of Bree Tanner: Part 2

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Right, sorry about the lack of updates, but some stuff's been going on and keeping me occupied. Onward and outward though! Onward and outward!

Comments

[shaolina]

The car crash thing was retarded! The police does investigate accidents, burned or not, and they will notice all the inconsistencies with the crash. Plus most crashes don't end with the car on fire and I don't think they came up with a reason as to why it caught on fire.

I don't mind the Cd thing. Some people like to have them like that because of the art and have stereos. What I mind is the H thing with Bree. Only way I can picture an H section is by them being at a major store like Wallmart. Bookstores are a little more complicated than the H section. Of what?! plus it shows she's neither picky or curious. She takes whatever. And I doubt a major store will have a very good collection of books. They usually store whatever's popular, regardless of genre, by letter.

Still, Freaky Fred is the only decent thing about the novella if you ask me. I like Freddy and the fact he has a brain. (Well, that and the fact that Diego is gay and Bree's too stupid to notice. Don't anybody dare to contradict me. I got canon proof XD)

[zelda_queen]

The only reason the car thing worked out for them at all is because Meyer somehow made the entire human race completely retarded. I mean, I know that they're not supposed to know about vampires, but they still ought to be more alert! At least in the Harry Potter series, it was implied that the Muggles chalked most of the magical attacks as freak storms and accidents since there was no other way to see it

[shaolina]

I agree. While people won't go around shouting vampire, they're bound to notice a lot of weird things going around. And seeing how they are going around abusing their powers I'm sure people have started to notice.

That is true. But tvs and game consoles are also fragile so I guess he doesn't mind. Plus he couldn't help himself when he saw the John Barrowman compilation CD. Heaven knows I wouldn't be able to resist. XD

I know people "from the ghetto". My stepfather grew up in one of the most dangerous ones in my country and one of my friends live in that same place. He studied accounting and she law. People read what they like. Although if I went for stereotypical I would say mindless drivel like Twilight.

(I do have to laugh at Meyer's attempt at a "dangerous ghetto". She has no idea what it really is like at all.)

(Hey, how do you link back to people in LJ. I tried linking to you in my spork and failed miserably XD)

[zelda_queen]

I know people read what they like, but Meyer is so freaking stereotypical that I'm sure it would never enter her head. If her sensibilities would allow it, she'd probably all have them going for porn. =_=

I think Captain Planet hit home closer to "dangerous ghetto" than she did. I'm reminded of a Chick Tract in which a room full of college students are mocking the fundamentalist and their big insult is "crazy, man!".

Link back to the actual post, or link to a person's profile? To link to the profile, type in the name, highlight it, and click on the button to the left of the "Insert Picture" button (it looks like a chain across a person).

[aikaterini]

I don’t know if Bree referring to Victoria as “Her” was supposed to create tension, but either way, it’s stupid. First of all, we already know that Victoria is the one behind all of this because we read “Eclipse.” Where exactly is the suspense? Second of all, Meyer is ticking me off again because this nonsense of calling Victoria “Her” reminds me of Bella and the Cullens’ irritating tendency of referring to Victoria as “the female” in the first book. Once again, Meyer manages to dehumanize and belittle one of the very few strong female characters in her books. Heaven forbid she allow Victoria to have some dignity before dying. And don’t get me started on Victoria’s “childish, whiny” voice that she suddenly and inexplicably has in this novella.

[zelda_queen]

Yeah, I'll be ranting about Victoria's voice when that comes up. Jesus H. Christ, what was up with that? I'm with Cleolinda, if I didn't know it was Victoria, I might have just confused it with Jane.

[aikaterini]

Oh, I love Cleolinda’s recaps, of both the books and the movies! She's created so many "Twilight" Internet memes; it's crazy.

[carakasla]

Well, comparing Rosalie's situation to the basically mass murder those two idiots created is a bit difficult. If Meyer had a brain (which she doesn't) with Rosalie she could have pull the 'Bystander Effect'. It's a real situation where someone will be in danger, and no one calls for help or find out what is going on, either out of fear or thinking someone else will do it. It happened near where I lived a several years ago where a girl was murdered in a residental area at 6am and no one called for help. It happens and that area where she was killed was pretty wealthy too. But that only works when there is one person being attacked, Bree's situation probably has 5-20 people. Don't think so, thats a mass murder. No points to you, Meyer

[zelda_queen]

I know, it's just that in both cases, everyone indoors appears to have mysteriously gone deaf. The Bystander Effect could explain Rosalie's case, but given Meyer's level of research, I kind of doubt it.

^_^ Yep, nothing like a strange, unsolved mystery to add some fun!

The Green River Killer? *Wikipedias* That happened in 2001, so it should have happened by this story's continuity, several years prior. In which case, it makes it even MORE likely that there ought to be police out the wazoo. I don't care how fast and perfect these vampires are, there ought to be more police and stuff going around!

[carakasla]

-.- Damn Meyer, you suck so bad, even when readers come up with explainations for your shit, we automatically shoot it down because you are so stupid

[shaolina]

"Ghettos are more tight-knit then you know."

That is very true. Back at my step father's ghetto where he grew up everyone knows who he was and vice versa. A big chunk of his family lived there. It was interesting to read ethnographers write how they work as their own little society.

[southerngaelic]

I had forgotten about the Netspeak.

I shall proceed to do so once more.

[zelda_queen]

Best of luck with that! :)

[angel_renoir]

THIS is Seattle? THIS?? People in Seattle AREN'T numbskulls!!! There's HARDLY any accidents that could possibly cause cars to crunch up together and explode!!!! If anything of that sort happened, there would be MASS PANIC and the area would be swarmed by police within moments!!! Just what kind of run-down ghetto full of hobos does Meyer think Seattle is?? *RAEG*

This kind of thing would NEVER go unnoticed. I have friends from church who would often go on evangelistic missions to shady areas and red light districts. I know that when bad stuff happen in those shady areas, even if the police are somehow stupid enough to not realize anything and I highly doubt they would be THAT clueless, at least the church would know and get help.

[zelda_queen]

Yeah, really sorry about that. Meyer apparently thinks the entire human race is blind, deaf, and dumb as rocks. Apparently she also thinks that countless tourists can go missing in Volterra and no one is the wiser.