the fact that SMeyer has messed with the essentials of the lore is VERY far down on my list of issues with the series
Yes! I mean the books have so many other issues, it strikes me that whatever she has done with vampires comes wayyy down the list. Plus, vampire mythos or whatever you call it, has never been terribly stable or consistent as far as I know. (Do you know that Roman vampires were old women who turned into birds and sucked babies' blood?) I have to admit I do sort of cherish the sparkling for the hilarity and amusement it has brought to so many people.
As for Troy, while I didn't like the film, that was mainly because I found it boring and not a terribly interesting revision of the story rather than because it messed with the Homeric version. Plus, I sort of think that like Alexander they cut out a large amount of the stuff that made the story interesting in favour of rather boring exposition. But that's an issue of poor adaptation rather than adaptation in and of itself.
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Date: 2009-08-02 07:09 pm (UTC)Yes! I mean the books have so many other issues, it strikes me that whatever she has done with vampires comes wayyy down the list. Plus, vampire mythos or whatever you call it, has never been terribly stable or consistent as far as I know. (Do you know that Roman vampires were old women who turned into birds and sucked babies' blood?) I have to admit I do sort of cherish the sparkling for the hilarity and amusement it has brought to so many people.
As for Troy, while I didn't like the film, that was mainly because I found it boring and not a terribly interesting revision of the story rather than because it messed with the Homeric version. Plus, I sort of think that like Alexander they cut out a large amount of the stuff that made the story interesting in favour of rather boring exposition. But that's an issue of poor adaptation rather than adaptation in and of itself.