Back for episode two! This is part two of the second episode of my Mervin Reads! The Twilight Illustrated guide. These next few parts are me taking on the interview at the beginning with Shannon Hale. Part 1: • Das Ranting: Mervin Re...
To be fair, I'm a really sensitive person so I can sympathize with Meyer having a hard time with criticism. However, she has complained so much that it just sounds like she's fishing for sympathy, especially since she has never corrected anything that's been criticized. Clearly, it's not that she's overwhelmed with embarrassment at mistakes being caught, she feels that it's undeserved. As far as I'm aware, she has never owned up to any legitimate issues, instead saying we're mean to judge her and OMG GUYZ ITS JUST A BOOK LOL! I can't say I'm too sorry for making Twilight "not a happy place to be" for her. There's a difference between being sensitive and just feeling entitled to praise and adoration. She isn't a delicate flower, she's just a stuck up brat who had a tantrum.
I disagree with one thing you said. If you actually pay attention to a character, then some actions would be OCC to what you've come to know as the character. However, just change the surroundings, and then the reactions should change. That's not to say Meyer shouldn't have rewrote Bella and Edward, or given Rosalie an actual character, just that it sometimes isn't up to you, and to defy the character means you don't understand whomever you're writing about.
I just want to say that I really love you and your readings Mervin! I just started reading the sporks and I am enjoying every minute of it (even your raging are priceless). The most ironic thing I like is not just your rants but the fact that you used the song "Antissa" by E.S. Posthumus as your ending song. I LOVE E.S Pothumus! You have my respect
I had a pretty definitive end in mind for my story when I began. Deviated massively since. Had it end in an alternate reality at one point (considering using that for another story).
I may have to defend "Emily" a bit, considering this: do we know if she actually thinks her sister is a good writer, or does she just say what Meyer wants to hear so she doesn't have to deal with whining?
+DarkMasterofCupcakes, tbh if my sister wrote a story where she put me as the victim of a horrible attack and made me fall in love with the attacker, I would bitch-slap the hell out of her. Also creepy fact #69, Jacob is another of her siblings. Meyer gave Bella the name she would have given her daughter and even says she grew to love Bella like a daughter. She had her brother fall in love with daughter and then imprint on her granddaughter......
When it comes to writing, Meyer has no idea how to kill babies. ...Okay, let me explain: I took a Devised Theatre class (basically about putting together a theatre piece with a group from a prompt) and the professor told us that one of the hardest things to do was let go of ideas you like, so you couldn't let yourself get attached to something like it's your baby, because if it doesn't suit the piece that's being formed, you have to kill it. And yeah, that's a hard thing to do. Pretty much everyone in the class struggled with letting go of an idea, right up until the final. But when Meyer likes something, it must stay, no matter how it disrupts the story.
About the Quileute tribe, I really, really don't see why SMeyer used a real tribe of people for her stories. I mean, SURPRISE, SURPRISE, she actually got the werewolf mythos somewhat correct, but there's no legends of "Cold Ones" in Quileute folklore. Why couldn't she have just made one up instead of takin the risk of having an offensive portrayal of a real minority culture?
Her thing of 'upgrading' Jacob into a love interest and then having him become another Edward makes me think of the guy that creates Sword Art Online. He has admitted that *he can't write female characters, unless he makes them love interests* ! Which just makes me question, why even *add* such characters, if you know you can't write them beyond having one very tiny and specific role?
@xAutumnTwilightx i hear you on that, she contradicts herself so badly. and then blames her fans. What! we didnt write the books, she did. If i wrote the book specifically breaking dawn, that book would have been a better story all together. thank god i am learning everything i am now about writing because when i actually get published it wont be a take two of smeyer.
She changes her characters personalities all the time. Can she honestly say that Jacob was the same in New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. He has like 7 different versions of him.
By the way, your explanation of the endings and how they can change - I love that, that's exactly what I was thinking watching the HIMYM finale. They just ignored 9 years of canon and made the characters act OOC (except for Marshall and Lily, because they were barely in it). Anyway, great rant and I agree with pretty much everything you said. (I am charlie2cute, on livejournal, btw, I just have like a 1000 profiles xD)
and yes i hear you on that, when it comes to the end i have to change many endings of my books that i wrote. for example the book that i am writing now, i wrote in the end that she died. than i was forced to bring her back when i thought of an incident and put it in the novel and i realized 'oh she cant die not yet because this incident says she cant' so now i am making it a trilogy. and whether said character dies at the end of three depends on how books two and three goes.
