Harry Potter vs. Twilight
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Re: Harry Potter vs. Twilight
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Your comment about trying to say something nice about Twilight made me laugh. But I do agree. The franchise is sold as 'romance', but it is more like ' unhealthy obsession'.hasmartz wrote:Harry Potter, absolutely.
For the sake of discussion, I'll try to say something nice about Twilight, though. I felt like she captured some of the feelings of teenage obsession very well. I remember how it felt to have an unhealthy crush at that age, and I think she nailed it. The problem is that I would never really want to relive that, nor do I think it's a great example to set for younger girls reading it. I'd rather my daughters be like Hermione than Bella.
My opinion, of course, like most of the people here, is Harry Potter. While I admit that Twilight has some fun parts, I'd choose Harry Potter if I were asked which series I would re-read. And, while Harry Potter teaches us values, Twilight doesn't.
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I agree with this wholeheartedly, especially considering the fact that Fifty Shades was started as a Twilight fanfiction. If you read both series you can 100% see the parallels between the two.tbughi1 wrote:Yeah, it's pretty hard to compare Harry Potter to anything. Its massive appeal and influence (heck, they built a theme park for it) to all makes it a bit out of Twilight's league. If you want to compare Twilight to something, Fifty Shades is a much better competitor. They both go after the same theme from completely different sides of the spectrum. Also, they've both struck heavily upon one single group and thus share a sphere of influence. Like watching a DC comic fan go head-to-head with a Marvel fan, a Twilight vs. Fifty Shades fight could get ugly I think.
Of course I'm a huge Potterhead, so I would choose Harry Potter over anything every time.
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Haha! Love this!AlysonofBathe wrote:Applauds!hdg1822 wrote:I believe that Stephen King said it best: "Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
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YES. This hits the nail on the head exactly.hdg1822 wrote:I believe that Stephen King said it best: "Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
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Harry Potter is stronger. It has longevity. It's in its own category. Movies, plays, theme parks. It will still have that majestic quality 20 years from now.
Twilight is like one of those cult hits that you think about when your nostalgic.Twilight is always a fascinating but frustrating series for me. It catches a lot of flack for its toxic, mundane, obsessive teen romance but everything else in the series was far more superior but received little focus. If Twilight actually focused more on any number of the fascinating secondary and tertiary characters rather than its lackluster protagonists it really could have been far greater than it was. And it was a hit. A plethora of Indigenous characters, the werewolf/vampire dichotomy and how it related to colonization/gentrification. The untapped potential to explore stigmitization of mental illness. Trauma, race, cultural identity, body autonomy...Focus was on all the wrong things. It could have been so much greater.
Twilight had endless possibilities and so much untapped potential it's painful to think about. Harry Potter actually tapped into and executed its themes and greatness.