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Annnnnnnnd plugging on NaNo, getting further and further behind. Notebook writing I'm doing fine on, but I'm lazy when it comes to typing it all up. Huh.
It's odd really. I love Kate Bush. And I love the single that made her famous, Wuthering Heights. I love the song that was inspired by the book, Jim Steinman's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now." (The Staffshipping Love Theme, nomnomnom~ ♥) I hate Wuthering Heights. Now what is wrong with this picture?
Truth be told, I have not read it. But from what I have gleaned off of detailed plot summaries and people's own thoughts about the book, I utterly and completely despise it. I hate Heathcliff and think he is a despicable and disgusting man (albeit, I'm supposed to think this. Yet he goes scott-free with no punishment after all the abuse and rage he forces everyone and his own damn kids who had nothing to do with the people he holds grudges on). He and Catherine need to be drawn out in a long and excruciating torture, considering that they're "one and the same" and all that.
I hate to sound Fandom Secrets-ish about this, but really. I detest the sort of thing that happens in stories like this:
Some two years after that, Catherine agrees to marry Edgar. Nelly knows that this will crush Heathcliff, and Heathcliff overhears Catherine's explanation that it would be "degrading" to marry him. Heathcliff storms out and leaves Wuthering Heights, not hearing Catherine's continuing declarations that "she is Heathcliff" and that her love for him is immovable like the rocks.
What if he stuck around and heard everything that Cathy had to say? What if in a short time after, Catherine told him the whole damn story? Maybe he wouldn't have to start that stupid and selfish destructive cycle that's put everyone else through hell in the first place?
This is what bothers me for stuff like the first Shrek and Edward Scissorhands. If Shrek had just listened to the whole damn story or one of the bratty teenagers just SAID SOMETHING ALREADY, maybe Shrek wouldn't have almost lost Fiona and Edward Scissorhands would have still been living with his adoptive family in the suburbs. Stuff like this just makes me want to pull my hair out and scream. I automatically think less of the movie/book/whatever if it uses such devices like that. Hell, it's the only thing I didn't like about Edward Scissorhands and really wish it could have been cut out and dealt with in another way; it's like a perfectly delicious apple with an ugly bruise smushed on it. I wish someone would make a parody of this annoying device and tear it mercilessly into shreds, showing how stupid it is.
It's gah... is it strange to love the song but not be able to stand the book it's based on? I feel weird singing to Heathcliff and beckoning him to come home when I honestly want to strangle him.
Ah well. We'll always have Monty Python's The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights, right?
It's odd really. I love Kate Bush. And I love the single that made her famous, Wuthering Heights. I love the song that was inspired by the book, Jim Steinman's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now." (The Staffshipping Love Theme, nomnomnom~ ♥) I hate Wuthering Heights. Now what is wrong with this picture?
Truth be told, I have not read it. But from what I have gleaned off of detailed plot summaries and people's own thoughts about the book, I utterly and completely despise it. I hate Heathcliff and think he is a despicable and disgusting man (albeit, I'm supposed to think this. Yet he goes scott-free with no punishment after all the abuse and rage he forces everyone and his own damn kids who had nothing to do with the people he holds grudges on). He and Catherine need to be drawn out in a long and excruciating torture, considering that they're "one and the same" and all that.
I hate to sound Fandom Secrets-ish about this, but really. I detest the sort of thing that happens in stories like this:
Some two years after that, Catherine agrees to marry Edgar. Nelly knows that this will crush Heathcliff, and Heathcliff overhears Catherine's explanation that it would be "degrading" to marry him. Heathcliff storms out and leaves Wuthering Heights, not hearing Catherine's continuing declarations that "she is Heathcliff" and that her love for him is immovable like the rocks.
What if he stuck around and heard everything that Cathy had to say? What if in a short time after, Catherine told him the whole damn story? Maybe he wouldn't have to start that stupid and selfish destructive cycle that's put everyone else through hell in the first place?
This is what bothers me for stuff like the first Shrek and Edward Scissorhands. If Shrek had just listened to the whole damn story or one of the bratty teenagers just SAID SOMETHING ALREADY, maybe Shrek wouldn't have almost lost Fiona and Edward Scissorhands would have still been living with his adoptive family in the suburbs. Stuff like this just makes me want to pull my hair out and scream. I automatically think less of the movie/book/whatever if it uses such devices like that. Hell, it's the only thing I didn't like about Edward Scissorhands and really wish it could have been cut out and dealt with in another way; it's like a perfectly delicious apple with an ugly bruise smushed on it. I wish someone would make a parody of this annoying device and tear it mercilessly into shreds, showing how stupid it is.
It's gah... is it strange to love the song but not be able to stand the book it's based on? I feel weird singing to Heathcliff and beckoning him to come home when I honestly want to strangle him.
Ah well. We'll always have Monty Python's The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights, right?
