| Midnight Sun |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|01:43 pm] |
So, if you are somewhat of a big Twilight fan you must have at least heard that the first chapters of Midnight Sun, Twilight from Edward's point of view, were leaked a while ago. Many people were wondering why Stephenie Meyer had not mentioned something on her website and discarded the 'leak' as fan fiction, some even going so far as to say that it was such bad fan fiction, it could never compare to something by Meyer. Today, I wake up to an update on Meyer's site, by Meyer herself stating that not only is she really upset about the leak, she's pretty sure she knows who did it, in her own way says she won't press charges, and will put the book on hold indefinitely because if she were to write in her current moo, she'd just have James kill all the Cullens. Alright, I understand that she must be really upset about having her work mishandled like that when the only reason there were any manuscripts going around was because of an attempt to help the Twilight movie people understand Edward better. Of course, she might have given some drafts to friends and family, and publishers, but it seems more likely to me that a draft may have been misplaced at some point during the movie shoot and someone took advantage of the opportunity and posted it. Like I said, I feel bad that Meyer's been upset by this all, but holding the book indefinitely from her fans is really not something she should do for many reasons. Stepehine had told fans herself that she would in fact be releasing Midnight Sun sometime after she'd finished Breaking Dawn and had had proper time to work on it; she should break a promise because let's face it, she's no longer writing just for herself, but for a huge fanbase and though it's nice that her books are still very personal for her, there are certain expectations she should at least meet. Of course, I don't mean to imply that she should change a book because some fans don't like it, but rather not lie to her fans, that's all. Sure, the circumstances were different when she made said promise, but Breaking Dawn was completely leaked online before the release and she still released. I don't see how this instance is any different. Also, there is the issue of how much of a let-down Breaking Dawn was to such a significant percent of her fanbase; those let-down fans were more than looking forward to the Midnight Sun release and now, her decision will further anger them and I'm not sure she maybe even get those fans back even if she releases Midnight Sun. All of her fans are important, sure they didn't like the last book, but they obviously loved the last three or they wouldn't have been so excited about Breaking Dawn and been consequently disappointed. Still on the topic of fans, even fans that liked Breaking Dawn will probably get mad simply because Meyer is acting immature and giving up, for the time being, on what could be her most anticipated project just because a few pages were leaked. Yes, I know twelve chapters were leaked, but she told us to expect the book to be at least 900 pages long and what's been leaked isn't even a quarter of that. If anything, there's just more hype for the book release and I'm sure anyone that's read the leaked material would be more than happy than to buy the book once released. The chapters were leaked because people were impatient, yes, it's wrong, but it only further proves that fans were and are still interested in the Twilight world. If Meyer had told us we'd have to wait two years for the book because she needed time away from Twilgiht, I would have been understanding and given her credit for handling the situation well by removing herself from it for a while, but telling us that the book is on indefinite hold is just her having a temper tantrum and taunting her fans by the fact that she in fact knows what will happen while we don't. Taunting us by telling us that she holds control over the series, as she should, but that little things can easily throw her off balance and cause her to give up. I am truly upset; upset that we're all being punished by someone's mindless actions, but really, shouldn't she be more mature about the situation. Though I'd be mad is she were to tell us the book will never be released, I would prefer that to an unknown. it's been obvious Meyer can't handle criticism from her reaction to many fan's reactions toward Breaking Dawn, but an incident like this should not discourage an author sure of their work. As for ending the book with james killing all the Culles, I say 'now Stephenie, now you're just being silly because most of the major points in the book are already written, we're only looking at it from Edward's perspective; it sounds suspiciously to me, like you're just running out of reasons as to why you're stopping Twilight.' Now, think what you may, but this decision as left me with a rather poor judgement on Stephenie's character, maturity, commitment and gratitude toward her fans, not to mention ability to even create a convincing lie to strengthen her argument.
Alright, this is my opinion, so don't get mad if you don't share it. I do welcome debate if anyone's up for it, so long as its based on opinions backed up by sense, logic, and facts, rather than insults. |
|
|
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
mp3_lt![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
peaceful
