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rixatrix
09/22/09

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I love Terry Bellefleur. And I loved him when he knocked up Lane on Gilmore Girls. (But I think I love him more now - the lovable, PTSD-suffering Southern macho man with a soft side.)
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mbot says Spock yeah!
09/22/09

@rixatrix: I love Terry, too! He and Arlene are so adorable! And Andy/Frank Sobotka is so adorable! And Hoyt and Jessica are SO ADORABLE! And Jason is so beautifully, adorably, hilariously stupid. Ah, do we have to wait until next summer for more? :-(
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Ms. Take
09/22/09

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how was this not just a bunch of clips of lafayette and pam?
i am disappointed.
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Her Grace
09/22/09

@Ms. Take: Agreed. All Pam all the time.
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andBegorrah
09/22/09

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"if"?
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
09/22/09

@andBegorrah: This is why they didn't get any Emmy noms, I don't understand why they call themselves a drama.
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Superawesomerad
09/22/09

@katie.scarlett.o'hara: Why are people so shocked that TB didn't get any Emmy nods? I mean, I love it, Lafayette is sassy and Bill is nerdy and Sookie is tolerable and Eric is hot and Jason is hilarious ... but it is not a good show in the sense of "high-quality writing and acting." I don't want TB nominated for an Emmy any more than I want Rocky Horror up for Best Picture.
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LolaInSlacks
09/22/09

@Superawesomerad: I completely disagree. TB aims for a certain tone and hits it completely. That requires both good acting and writing. Just because it isn't the same kind of writing and acting that's seen on other shows doesn't mean it's bad.
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
09/22/09

@LolaInSlacks: Agreed. They know exactly what they're doing, and the acting is great, in my opinion. Lafayette, at least, deserves a nomination. It's just a weird show to categorize, I guess, and ensembles generally get screwed out of acting noms.
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Superawesomerad
09/23/09

@LolaInSlacks: I didn't say that the writing and acting were bad because they were different. I just think they're bad. Enjoyable, but bad.

All of the actors have improved a lot, but even now apart from a handful of standouts much of the acting is a morass of heinous Southern accents and smile-crying. The show's writers overrely on fake-outs and cliffhangers. Any scene with romantic dialogue (Sookie-Bill, Tara-Eggs, Sookie-Eric) is painful. The Maryanne plotline this season was horribly paced.

Again, I feel weird saying all this, because I really do like the show. It's a whole lot of fun. But it's not awards material.
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Penny
09/22/09

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"Give me yer taaaawngs."

I love this show.
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IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel
09/22/09

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As someone who has never seen this show before, I can't imagine this being anything but a sitcom!
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katie.scarlett.o'hara
09/22/09

@IBleedGlitter: The High Priestess of Tinsel: It's really more satire than outright laughs, although it really is hilarious.
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Eric Northman is mine
02/24/09

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has someone brought up charlaine harris, somehow you can't talk about twilight without people bringing up true blood. An apple is a fruit and an orange is a fruit but they are clearly two different kinds of fruit. Not everyone can be deep writer, sometimes fluff is fine. Either way, i can't hate on someone who makes millions selling books it's not like she's a banker or something.
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angryblackgurl
02/24/09

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I tried to read her book, after about 40 pages I gave up!! Now when I see someone with her book..I smirk!!
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susanstohelit
02/24/09

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It's depressing that to be successful when marketing to a female teen audience, you don't actually need to be talented (see Twilight , the Jonas Brothers). Instead, it seems to boil down to non-threatening bordering on boring "romance" combined with pretty androgyny. I guess that's better than being attracted to the bad boy, but I feel like this is giving teen girls really unrealistic expectations about boys - namely that they will always be sweet and sappy and safe.

Not to mention, these girls are missing out on actually talented artists in favor of crap.
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la.donna.pietra
02/24/09

@susanstohelit: I firmly believe that one needs to read a certain amount of crap in one's life to become a well-rounded person. I hoovered up loads of V.C. Andrews when I was about 12, and it set me up just fine for all kinds of classic 19th-century lit. If Rebecca is Jane Eyre's daughter and Pamela's granddaughter, then Flowers in the Attic is Jane Eyre's slovenly trailer-trash cousin. Not sure what Twilight will set the 12-year-olds of today up for, but I have faith.

If nothing else, once you do start reading actual talent, you have a basis for comparison.
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Clare116
02/24/09

@la.donna.pietra: HAHAHA! If only the rest of literary criticism was as funny as your Pamela-->Jane Eyre-->Rebecca-->Flowers in the Attic family tree.

I agree that developing the habit of reading early on, even with easy stuff, is an important thing. My Baby-Sitters Club and Sweet Valley High of years past and the copy of "O Pioneers" that's currently on my bedstand are not mututally exclusive.

Also, I read Tess of the D'Urbervilles when I was 12 or seomthing, and didn't get a damn thing out of it (other than being super-uncomfortable with sharing a name with the villain). I could technically read above my age level, but it wasn't always a worthwhile endeavor.
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la.donna.pietra
02/24/09

@Clare116: I should probably give Alfred Hitchcock (I think) credit for the first 3/4 of that family tree; he's the one who originally came up with the notion of maternal inheritance. And I hear you on the Tess front--that book made no sense whatsoever until I was about 19. I also read the orphanage section of Jane Eyre over and over when I was younger, but never the rest of the book--it was boring! (Ha.)

Kids shouldn't ever be discouraged from reading, no matter what the subject matter is. Even Jane Eyre was once considered crap by a lot of people.
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Lady Skittlehattington
02/24/09

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The Twilight books are like fan fiction based on itself. It's amazing to me how many untalented authors end up being successful because of luck or knowing someone in the business.

Related: these books gave me the worst case of literary blue balls ever. Up there with Thornbirds, for real.
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la.donna.pietra
02/24/09

@Lady Skittlehattington: Yes, but The Thorn Birds has actual sex that actually gets described (early on, in way more painful detail than I wanted when I was 9 or so).
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arodriguez.romero
02/24/09

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if you get money for it, you're a professional

professional only implies competence sometimes
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Fate'sBitch
02/24/09

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I would also like to take a stand and say that I read the first book, attempted to skim the second and then gave up and never touched them again. They are bad, bad, bad and no one will ever convince me that they are "addictive" or "so bad they are good" These books are just bad.
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arodriguez.romero
02/24/09

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heh vampires

at dinner I chat with my kids like: "Whadya do today?" and back and forth.

They don't care what I did so I always throw in "and then the vampire came by and he was sparkley"

It still doesn't get their attention
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molly pocket
02/24/09

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"We bought The Dark Knight when it came out, and I know we will watch it someday," she says.

She basically could've said:

"I bought a pound of chicken, and I know I'll cook it someday."

-or-

"There's this great sweater I once bought, and I'm sure it'll look good with something sometime."

THIS IS SO BORING, VOGUE.
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GoldenRatioφ (aka -girl11)
02/24/09

@mollybee: Boring and IRRITATING. You actually bothered to buy a movie that 90% of America loved, and yet you couldn't invest 2 or 3 hours sitting through it? And then you want to tell us about that? Why, what is the point of knowing that? Seriously? That you don't know how to operate a DVD player or something? That you are so unusual and unique because you bought a movie you never watched?
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Everything MidnightBikeRide does is a balloon.
02/24/09

@mollybee: That cracked me up, actually. I'm imagining her saying it in a breathy, heroic, "Don't give up now, I just know we'll make it" voice. Teehee.
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tscheese
02/24/09

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Tscheesenotes on Twilight

"Edward is like, SO HOT. I'm skinny and pretty, but my GOD, Edward is like, SO HOT. And then this one time, Edward ran his finger up and down my arm idly, and it was like, electrical, and I could practically feel the flames welling up within my tortured bosom. But back to Edward. He was doing all this while smelling really good, and also, being really good-looking in a dark and unkempt way, and also, I am REALLY REALLY awkward. Oh, nevermind the fact that I'm beautiful and intelligent and I always know exactly what to say--I, uh, run into stuff. And I'm DIFFERENT. And no one gets me. It's really, really hard being Mary Sue--er, I mean, Bella.

But back to Edward. His dark, smoldering eyes are dark and smoldering, and I can see two millimeters of his interestingly insouciant widow's peak underneath his interestingly insouciant hairstyle. Also, I'm clumsy and a total outcast. NO REALLY. NO REALLY. I'm different, damnit! Despite being unrealistically attractive and fit and intelligent. Did I mention I am beautiful? AND DIFFERENT?

Oh, and I want vampire sex and I can't have it. The end."
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zombie.nancy is a godess of fierce
02/24/09

@tscheese: I like your version better.
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Fate'sBitch
02/24/09

@tscheese: But never get into HOW or WHY Bella is different. Don't give her any dreams or goals or motives or personality, just have people constantly tell her she's special.

Tell don't show. That is the rule, right?....wait.
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largirl
02/24/09

@tscheese: Can someone explain the "Mary Sue" thing me, please?

I have a feeling that is such a stupid, obvious question that I feel a crazy urge to write it in LOLspeak.

I can haz Mary Sue xplanshon plz?
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
02/24/09

@largirl: It's kinda vague, but read this: [tvtropes.org]
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cwisto moweina has got yer goat
02/24/09

@cwisto moweina has got yer goat: and by vague I mean so detailed that you won't really know what to think, so not vague at all but has the same result.
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TheExperience
02/24/09

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She avoided creative writing in college for fear of CRITICISM?

As someone who would die without a pen in her hand, I seriously pity her very existance. What kind of outlook is that to have in college?
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taranwanderer
02/24/09

@TheExperience: Makes me wonder what her relationship with her editor was like...
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la.donna.pietra
02/24/09

@TheExperience: She also attended Brigham Young University. If I went there, I'd probably try to avoid any criticism from my peers too.
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