
< RANT ABOUT TWILIGHT AHEAD!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!! >
I will be so freaking happy when this Twilight crap ends. I'm just tired of seeing that ugly girl all over the place. I'm usually not one to harp on looks because I believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and being bigger I feel a certain kinship for ugly ducklings and big girls. But I suppose what irritates me about this Kristen girl is that she seems like a truly miserable person. Like, she thinks she's the greatest actress ever and we should all be so thankful that we get to see her. PFFT! Of course, I feel the same way about Ellen Page, who again, acts as if she's God's gift while simultaniously telling everyone she's not.
Also, I've read the first book of Twilight and I swear, the girl is not Shakespear, her characters are one dimensional, and she nearly, completely, copied the character of Edward from Angel. I'm just tired of the worship of a series that truly doesn't deserve it.
That doesn't mean I think JKR is the greatest writer in the world. In fact, I think her work is flawed in a lot of ways. However, she laid the ground work for truly interesting characters that her fans can build off. Meyers took an already used, and done better genre, and tried to establish her career off of it by telling tweens that it's completely new. Um...excuse me?! Dark Shadows and Buffy came first, and they did it better.
I think it's just the overabundance of this drivvel everywhere. I mean, yahoo, foxnews, my thirteen year old cousin, all love this tripe and act as if Shakespear or Austin has come back reincarnated as Meyers. She admitted, once, in an interview that she used to write Buffy/Angel fan fiction and she got the idea from a fan fic she wrote. Well, that's all well and good, but then she recanted and has since said that she never said that. Um...hello! Yes, you did!
Anyway, I'm just sick of all of it. This isn't directed at people on my flist, but I'm just perturbed by seeing all the rave about it on yahoo and other sites that I just needed to say my peace.
Oh, and Edward only WISHES he was Angel or Spike. The end.
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