Post by lysystrata on Jan 27, 2011 16:19:44 GMT
As some of you on here may have detected, I'm a bit of a Victoria shipper. I honestly feel she and Rosalie were the only really decently done characters in the series.
That said they were still flat, one dimensional, this is something Meyers does a lot.
I write Bellice because somehow Alice has become this imaginary ideal woman to me, there are enough hints in the original books of an unspoken relationship between Alice and Bella I generally just inject a bit of personality into Bella (God knows she needs it) and I've added an original character or two for spice (I've give you good odds my Penelope in 'Riddles' has had a far more interesting debut then resurfacing than any Meyers character )
What Meyers did was provide hints of what Victoria and Rosalie could actually be if the author actually cared about them.
Jocelyn Torrent has proven just how strong a character Rosalie can be if properly tended for by the author.
I'd like to see someone do the same for Victoria and perhaps, once I feel more confident in my skills, I will attempt it. I read 'Interview With The Vampire" when I was eight and though it may speak ill of me, I somewhat understood the sexual undertones. Victoria is the only Meyers vampire who could exist in the Rice universe, which was my initial understanding of vampires.
On a different note, I think Meyers has a not so secret support for polygamy which shows in both the Twilight series and in her sci fi piece 'The Other'.
I won't provide examples, either other people see it or I'm just nuts.
I've no moral objection to polygamy, frankly I think it's none of the governments business, but I really feel Meyer's feelings are based in her Mormonism which I think has no place in these types of novels.
Whew, that was a bit of a rant, sorry.
~Sara~
That said they were still flat, one dimensional, this is something Meyers does a lot.
I write Bellice because somehow Alice has become this imaginary ideal woman to me, there are enough hints in the original books of an unspoken relationship between Alice and Bella I generally just inject a bit of personality into Bella (God knows she needs it) and I've added an original character or two for spice (I've give you good odds my Penelope in 'Riddles' has had a far more interesting debut then resurfacing than any Meyers character )
What Meyers did was provide hints of what Victoria and Rosalie could actually be if the author actually cared about them.
Jocelyn Torrent has proven just how strong a character Rosalie can be if properly tended for by the author.
I'd like to see someone do the same for Victoria and perhaps, once I feel more confident in my skills, I will attempt it. I read 'Interview With The Vampire" when I was eight and though it may speak ill of me, I somewhat understood the sexual undertones. Victoria is the only Meyers vampire who could exist in the Rice universe, which was my initial understanding of vampires.
On a different note, I think Meyers has a not so secret support for polygamy which shows in both the Twilight series and in her sci fi piece 'The Other'.
I won't provide examples, either other people see it or I'm just nuts.
I've no moral objection to polygamy, frankly I think it's none of the governments business, but I really feel Meyer's feelings are based in her Mormonism which I think has no place in these types of novels.
Whew, that was a bit of a rant, sorry.
~Sara~
