Two Questions...

[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.

Comments

[csinman.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even heard Meyers was LDS until this post! haha

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Much hay has been made on The Internets about Twilight as mind-stealing LDS propaganda.

As I said above, all you Christians look the same to me, so I have no context or background to even begin to evaluate this idea.

[csinman.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious. Well, Mormons are my favorite Christians--I find them a fascinating anthropological phenomenon. Whether or not there's any mind-stealing, I think it certainly explains why the MC's entire objective is to snag herself a man!