I Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher

[redbrunja]

 I watched the finale of True Blood, if anyone is interested in chatting about that.

I also finished The Lightning Thief today, which I greatly enjoyed. I reminded me a lot of early Harry Potter (in a good way) and I enjoyed it enough to put a hold on the next volume. (I hope it gets darker as Percy gets older, like HP did.) I loved all the mythology, Percy was a great pov character (and I liked how his dyslexia was described), Annabeth was awesome, Grover was annoying, they treated Percy's mother like a character in her own right, and not just as The Mom. My one major complaint was that I could really tell it was written for 12-year-olds. (Grover, in particular, was a character would only exist and would only behave as he did in a children's book. By that I mean I found it ridiculously that he would have been given the task he was.) Also, I totally want Annabeth to get Cybernus as a pet at some point. That would be awesome.

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[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wish there could be a pre-Bill/vamps version of the show that focuses on the gang at Merlottes.

That would be awesome. And would give me more of Sookie and Tara being best friends, which is sadly lacking in thos show. I was grateful for the little we did get in this episode.

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was pretty much what I was thinking. I really love Sookie and Tara bestie moments and we get so few of them (especially in season 2-3).

I have a question... Why do you hate the faeries? I just ask in honest curiousity. I still haven't decided how I feel about them since I was spoiled for it and then when I saw it on the show I figured, "Eh, I'll go with it for now."

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I do not feel the fairies, especially the way that Harris wrote the fairies, fit into the world she built. Vampires and werewolves and shifters are one thing, and they really work well with the metaphors she's working with. However, the fairies, especially when Sookie goes off to fight in a fairy work, really, really don't fit in for me. Additionally, they seem WAY to tame. Harris shoved classic fantasy elves* into her horror urban fantasy, and the crossing of genres made me want to gag (and was also really, really boring).

Then we get to True Blood, which decides to follow Harris' lead for once in the show's run and shove sweetness and light fantasy fairies into their violent, bloody, vampire soap opera using the MOST MIDDLE-SCHOOL PRODUCTION OF 'A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM COSTUMING AND IMAGERY THEY POSSIBLY COULD.

It's fucking ridiculous and boring.

*This is not to say that fairies COULDN'T fit into a horror book/show. They would just need to be Melissa Marr or Emma Bull type fairies (those are two authors who did the fair folk right, imho).

[mistaria.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this makes so much more sense to me now. I wasn't aware that they never turned into more the Melissa Marr type fairies so I can see how this is going to get stupid. I didn't think the "Midsummer Night's Dream" costuming was well done at all but I figured eventually it'd be kind of an ironic thing. Although I guess I should have figured this was how things would be considering vampires managed to pretty much wipe them out.

Now I am feeling the hate too. Urgh. What editor let her get away with tossing tra-la-laing fairies rather than rawr-creepy-kind-of-evil fairies into her horror story?

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Now I am feeling the hate too. Urgh. What editor let her get away with tossing tra-la-laing fairies rather than rawr-creepy-kind-of-evil fairies into her horror story?

Apparently they get more badass later in the books? However, I'd stopped reading by that point, so.

[lady-tigerfish.livejournal.com]

This is not to say that fairies COULDN'T fit into a horror book/show. They would just need to be Melissa Marr or Emma Bull type fairies (those are two authors who did the fair folk right, imho.

WORD.

[shiegra.livejournal.com]

But...the show fairies didn't follow the book fairies at all? Like, Claudine, who is the most fluffy happy shiny book fairy, also slaughters her way through the ranks and laughed as she crushed goblins foes beneath her heels? And gave the person who killed her sister a five hour start so she could hunt her down like an animal.

Pretty much every other fairy is a) a cold blooded killer and b) pretty strongly, um, elitist regarding humans except for whatever ones they might have deigned to take a personal liking to.

C-come on, you have to admit that Niall going 'OMG BABY'S FIRST KILL :D :D :D' and Sookie going 'WTF WTF' was funny.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Like, Claudine, who is the most fluffy happy shiny book fairy, also slaughters her way through the ranks and laughed as she crushed goblins foes beneath her heels? And gave the person who killed her sister a five hour start so she could hunt her down like an animal.

See, I got bored and stopped reading the book where that happens before what you mentioned happened, so I all I got was their elitist attitude towards humans which a.) bored me and b.) have seen that dynamic for fairies over and over again. So moving to ridiculous and boring fairies on the show doesn't actually feel like a switch in dynamics in a way that changes my opinions about the fairies.

C-come on, you have to admit that Niall going 'OMG BABY'S FIRST KILL :D :D :D' and Sookie going 'WTF WTF' was funny.

I will admit that.