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Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 7:27 am
by Deepcrush
Tsukiyumi wrote:Desperate Housewives is popular... and it sucks.

Grey's Anatomy is popular... and it sucks.

CSI is popular... and it sucks.

Law & Order is popular... and it sucks.

IMO, things that are "wildly popular" are generally terrible from any sensible standpoint; I'm not surprised, of course: 9 out of 10 people are idiots, or some variety of dirtbag.

Hey, L&O and L&O SVU are good shows. The other does suck pretty hard though.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:28 pm
by Sionnach Glic
Tyyr, the reason that a massive amount of hate is being directed towards it is because it's popular right now. Undoubtedly all those other such examples of horrible yet popular movies got their own hate-fests when they were big.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:44 pm
by Nickswitz
Deepcrush wrote:
Tsukiyumi wrote:Desperate Housewives is popular... and it sucks.

Grey's Anatomy is popular... and it sucks.

CSI is popular... and it sucks.

Law & Order is popular... and it sucks.

IMO, things that are "wildly popular" are generally terrible from any sensible standpoint; I'm not surprised, of course: 9 out of 10 people are idiots, or some variety of dirtbag.

Hey, L&O and L&O SVU are good shows. The other does suck pretty hard though.
I agree, however, I don't see CSI as sucking, it started to go downhill once Grissom left though, because he was the main character, and all the spin offs are the same as the original just with different characters, who were identical to their counterparts.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:45 pm
by Reliant121
We have to remember that what people enjoy and what people don't are widely varying things. For a vast majority, being a good show, and being an enjoyable show are entirely different things. There Are a vast majority of people who like a particular program even if it's poorly written, has a ropey plot, is unrealistic or whatever it may be. I, for example, enjoy Andromeda even though it's all rather fantastical, and even a little over acted in places.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:03 pm
by Captain Seafort
Topic moved. It's not sci-fi, but that's why the forum's called "Other/General".

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 6:29 pm
by Tsukiyumi
Nickswitz wrote:...identical to their counterparts.
Yeah, pretty much every episode of those shows are identical to each other.

Deep - same with Law and Order.

If you look up "Generic Procedural Cop Show" in the dictionary, there should be listings for both of those "series".

Thank God someone finally staked ER in the heart...

Of course, it was replaced by ten more "Generic Procedural Medical Dramas". :bangwall:

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 8:56 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
I read all four books... and to be honest, I have read far more insulting pieces of literature.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:08 am
by Lighthawk
I can't say that I care enough about Twilight to hate it. Everything I've ever heard about it combined might get a "meh" out of me.

It's a fad series, it'll pass. Especially if the rumors about the author's shit fit have any truth to them.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:32 am
by stitch626
Especially if the rumors about the author's s**t fit have any truth to them.
Say what again?

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:46 am
by Lighthawk
stitch626 wrote:
Especially if the rumors about the author's s**t fit have any truth to them.
Say what again?
Let me first state, I could easily be mangling this, given how little I care about the series.

Anyway, rumor was, their was a leak for the next book in the series, one of the editors I believe. And the author blew up over it, threw a huge hissy fit, and declared that because of the leak, she wasn't going to finish the series.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:53 am
by Nickswitz
Lighthawk wrote:
stitch626 wrote:
Especially if the rumors about the author's s**t fit have any truth to them.
Say what again?
Let me first state, I could easily be mangling this, given how little I care about the series.

Anyway, rumor was, their was a leak for the next book in the series, one of the editors I believe. And the author blew up over it, threw a huge hissy fit, and declared that because of the leak, she wasn't going to finish the series.
Well thank god!

I mean, that's so horrible... :roll:

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:56 am
by Lighthawk
Nickswitz wrote:Well thank god!

I mean, that's so horrible... :roll:
Again, meh. Though I must say, if that's how the author takes life's disappointments, it's no surprise Bella (right?) is constantly being described as a whiney bratty bitch...she's just the author.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 2:10 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Lighthawk wrote:
stitch626 wrote:
Especially if the rumors about the author's s**t fit have any truth to them.
Say what again?
Let me first state, I could easily be mangling this, given how little I care about the series.

Anyway, rumor was, their was a leak for the next book in the series, one of the editors I believe. And the author blew up over it, threw a huge hissy fit, and declared that because of the leak, she wasn't going to finish the series.
No, that's pretty much what happened. The leak was wrong, don't get me wrong. But she overreacted to it. Besides, the book was basically a rewrite of the first one from Edward's point of view instead of Bella's! Everyone should've known what happened, leak or no leak.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 4:35 pm
by Lighthawk
RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote: No, that's pretty much what happened. The leak was wrong, don't get me wrong. But she overreacted to it. Besides, the book was basically a rewrite of the first one from Edward's point of view instead of Bella's! Everyone should've known what happened, leak or no leak.
Really? Wow, talk about blatantly trying to milk some more cash out of things.

Re: The official Twilight Bashing thread...

Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 11:59 pm
by RK_Striker_JK_5
Really, Lighthawk. Entitled 'Midnight Sun'. It would've had some additional scenes, but for the most part it was twilight from Eddie-kins' POV.