Heh, it's good to know I'm not the only one. Hey, it's good to know on MY end that I'm not the only one. I literally didn't know if anyone else reading the Breaking Dawn sporkings wasn't a de facto member of Leahdom (which doesn't exist yet, but I suspect eventually will under one name or another).
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. Devoting an entire post to the Leah Clearwater chatbox was just BEYOND WEIRD, in my opinion. I mean, fine, so the comm likes her. But an ENTIRE POST?
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!! Yeah - I feel the sporkings and discussions are degenerating into 'No one except Leah, Charlie, and occasionally Rosalie and Emmett can do anything right, and Leah, Charlie, and Emmett and Rosalie are awesome'.
They stand out as good characters and people because they're given fewer opportunities than the leads to do anything offensive or moronic. And if they do anything offensive or moronic, it's usually against the main characters, which will get ignored/justified/glorified because the main characters are such lousy people. D|
And yes, Leah would be an interesting but average character if she were transplanted into a world of decent quality. A quarter of the people now worshiping her would probably be bashing her because 'the place where she came from couldn't be THAT bad' (if she retained her canon Twilight background), 'she doesn't get over her grudges', and so on and so forth. Doubly so if she turned her aggression and snark on characters they liked.
As far as I'm concerned, she really is the Severus Snape of Twilight. The difference is that Twilight's hatedom is much larger and more unified than Harry Potter's. The fandom reaction is almost exactly the same.
(Speaking of Harry Potter, have you seen the newest Pottermore info? Oh good grief. Amongst other things, we now have a single charm that could duplicate the effect of the entire Marauder's Map. Because it's not like the existence of such a charm would have ripped flaming holes of most of canon or anything...)
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Hey, it's good to know on MY end that I'm not the only one. I literally didn't know if anyone else reading the Breaking Dawn sporkings wasn't a de facto member of Leahdom (which doesn't exist yet, but I suspect eventually will under one name or another).
Devoting an entire post to the Leah Clearwater chatbox was just BEYOND WEIRD, in my opinion. I mean, fine, so the comm likes her. But an ENTIRE POST?
Yeah - I feel the sporkings and discussions are degenerating into 'No one except Leah, Charlie, and occasionally Rosalie and Emmett can do anything right, and Leah, Charlie, and Emmett and Rosalie are awesome'.
And if they do anything offensive or moronic, it's usually against the main characters, which will get ignored/justified/glorified because the main characters are such lousy people. D|
And yes, Leah would be an interesting but average character if she were transplanted into a world of decent quality. A quarter of the people now worshiping her would probably be bashing her because 'the place where she came from couldn't be THAT bad' (if she retained her canon Twilight background), 'she doesn't get over her grudges', and so on and so forth. Doubly so if she turned her aggression and snark on characters they liked.
As far as I'm concerned, she really is the Severus Snape of Twilight. The difference is that Twilight's hatedom is much larger and more unified than Harry Potter's. The fandom reaction is almost exactly the same.
(Speaking of Harry Potter, have you seen the newest Pottermore info? Oh good grief. Amongst other things, we now have a single charm that could duplicate the effect of the entire Marauder's Map. Because it's not like the existence of such a charm would have ripped flaming holes of most of canon or anything...)