Yes, on the one hand it's "the book wasn't that great," and then on the other it's "the horrid menz don't know what girls want." I put it to Lindsey that the evil suits DO know what teen girls want, as the Twilight franchise has become a licence to print money, and only a small part is Meyer's actual writing. Having tried to read the source text (LOL) and watched the Rifftrax of the movies, I can assert that the movies, terrible as they are, actually improve on the books. Characters have a teensy bit more motivation, things happen for a bit of a reason, etc. The reason this didn't happen with TMI, is that there was nothing to salvage.

Once again I ask myself, what is this magical power CC has over people, that they give her such an out over everything? I mean, it's not like she wrote a book which, like her fanfic, was just a cobbled together mishmash of various tropes and wish-fulfilment fantasies . . . oh, wait. I feel Lindsay has kind of misrepresented the whole plagiarist thing, with "it's only fanfic". Fic writers take plagiarism just as seriously as pro writers, ta very much. What if someone took her entire video transcript, made it into a review, and passed it off as their own? I guess, by her argument, that wouldn't matter, as it's only an online review.

I also take issue with Lindsay's comment about a certain beloved female character (see icon). Don't go there, girl.