leahbobet ([personal profile] leahbobet) wrote2008-09-24 01:49 pm

Two Questions...

...both spawned by the never-ending parade of posts about how terrible Twilight is.*

1) So two major YA series hit big in the last ten years: Twilight and Harry Potter. In the early part of each series, you saw what can be charitably called low production values in terms of craft, plots that revolved around blatant wish-fulfillment, and wholesale rips of the tropes of already established subgenres. Potter is the poster child for mainstream acceptance. Twilight is excoriated regularly in newspapers, the internets, and local bookstores in reenactments of the Five Minutes' Hate.

What's the difference? What causes that?

I have my own theory, but I want to hear yours.


2) Where do people get the idea that exposing a child to a worldview or idea at all means the child will automatically agree with, adopt, and adhere to that worldview or idea?

Really, peoples. You met kids?


*Haven't read it, not gonna, no opinion on the matter.

[identity profile] leahbobet.livejournal.com 2008-09-24 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
A big chunk of this is part of why I think people are up in arms, yes.

I do have to ask, though: what's with the Mormon thing? In terms of mainstream American culture, I mean. I suspect I do not get that part of the discourse, since really, all you Christians look the same to me. ;)

[identity profile] ex-fandrogy.livejournal.com 2008-09-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I know what you're asking. Are you asking where Mormons fit within mainstream American culture, or how they're commonly characterized, or what they actually believe? (I'm not Mormon, but I've known quite a few of them and they never shied away from answering my questions about doctrine, and they were all different shades of devout.)