Two Questions...
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leahbobet...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.
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.
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Date: 2008-09-24 07:03 pm (UTC)(And if you have anything to clue me in re: the Mormon thing as per my question to
Indeed there was -- interestingly, not in what I guess I could term the "mainstream culture": the kind you see in newspapers, on TV, etc. (http://cristalia.livejournal.com/272536.html?thread=2312600#t2312600)
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Date: 2008-09-24 07:12 pm (UTC)Vampires are Anne Rice, sexual and nasty (I know all about Buffy and the more modern potrayal). Vampires are dark and dangerous and scary for the conservative who would protest / complain about a book.
That's my perception.
The Mormon thing - Mormons are the red-headed step-child of the Christian faith. Very likely misunderstood and perceived as either being polygamous or the two guys who show up at your door trying to convert you to your faith. Mormons, like vampires, are scary.
To some.