I mean, it's one thing to show a certain level of favoritism to your favorite characters, but I wish the people over there would stop gushing about how awesome Leah is and get back to talking about the books. When I write Harry Potter parodies I may favor characters like Snape or Peter Pettigrew or whoever if they're actually on-screen and/or relevant, but I don't shoehorn them into EVERYTHING (and I poke fun at them too--I don't grant them immunity just because I like them and they get a raw deal in canon)! I can't help but feel like there are things the people at Das_Sporking could be discussing more broadly or deeply that they're just ignoring in favor of Leah Is Awesome!!
The way I see it, a good bit of why characters like Charlie and Leah come across as good characters in Twilight is largely because all the other characters are so awful. They stand out as good characters and people because they're given fewer opportunities than the leads to do anything offensive or moronic. That's the way it works in bad fiction. Leah may be a good character by Twilight's standards but I wager that if you were to transplant her into a world that had consistently-good characterization and character development, she'd be pretty indistinguishable in terms of quality.
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I mean, it's one thing to show a certain level of favoritism to your favorite characters, but I wish the people over there would stop gushing about how awesome Leah is and get back to talking about the books. When I write Harry Potter parodies I may favor characters like Snape or Peter Pettigrew or whoever if they're actually on-screen and/or relevant, but I don't shoehorn them into EVERYTHING (and I poke fun at them too--I don't grant them immunity just because I like them and they get a raw deal in canon)! I can't help but feel like there are things the people at Das_Sporking could be discussing more broadly or deeply that they're just ignoring in favor of Leah Is Awesome!!
The way I see it, a good bit of why characters like Charlie and Leah come across as good characters in Twilight is largely because all the other characters are so awful. They stand out as good characters and people because they're given fewer opportunities than the leads to do anything offensive or moronic. That's the way it works in bad fiction. Leah may be a good character by Twilight's standards but I wager that if you were to transplant her into a world that had consistently-good characterization and character development, she'd be pretty indistinguishable in terms of quality.