(don’t know how appropriate this is but having gone through what she’s going through twice before now, I can assure you that NO, IT DOES NOT TASTE GOOD)
After years of making fun of it, I watched 50 Shades of Grey and its sequel 50 Shades Darker. I’m even thinking about reading the books. How crazy is that?
And yes this yet another Fifty shades series retelling from ‘Christian’s perspective” of the second book Fifty Shades Darker. Another attempt to prove that she totally did not copy from other fanfiction writers to write the original travesty and that she has merit and..
… she totally needs cash to finish off her money making cash cow that is those “adaptation movies”. Totally.
If i understand the Gun control stance correctly, anyone in America can learn to shoot even if they are a civilian. Ray does not need to be in the Army at all. Another British/ Indian-ish?/ Rest of the world even!, thing which snuck up on a novel based on America. Terrible fanfiction.
literally two people looked back in first edit. Man! either ELJ is gloating on how awesome this scene is or the whole side extras don’t give a shit like us.
i am concluding my fifty shades commentary articles from today and i am extremely happy about it. in this process i realized that i may be not the most hilarious writer on the block-there are plenty of those around -but i do loved discovering new websites to see what kind of things they found funny. i laughed so hard, especially redlemonade and badbooksgoodtimes and there are many more( seriously just google “fifty shades of grey blog” and by page 4 on-wards you will find awesome funnies! my dream to reach there at least.sigh!)
SO TODAY I AM TALKING ABOUT..
i decide to tackle the most controversial and most debated aspect of this series in itself-Christian Grey. doing my bit of research psychologists, blog writers, general review writers and many more are divided into faction of either they hate him , is a harmful character to romantically idolize him or they idolize him anyway, usually into something which he is not. this was more prominent when e l James released her fourth in the series Grey ( fifty shades re-imagined from christian’s POV) when most of the reviewers were perplexed. they could not find the “controlling’, “alluring”, “domineering” personality they were looking for.many who hate the series and despise christian grey are satisfied to see that they have plenty of material to justify christian is “psychopath”, “sociopath”, “self-centered”, “domineering”(in a bad way, not the sexy time one) and so on and so forth. seriously, i am still baffled on how did they reached the”psycho” conclusion 😛 , the rest i can still understand.
it is true, christian grey is a domineering, sexist, hermit, disturbed , abusive, self-loathing and misguided fella, a very misguided fella. i will explain why. reading and re-reading this book, i feel the reasons of his behavior are much more articulate and relatable than the ones from whom this character took root from: Edward Cullen.
to understand christian grey, we have to understand the basic underline of Edward Cullen created by Stephanie Meyer. fifty shades series, after all started off as a fan-fiction of twilight. knowing what i know of midnight sun and twilight series, Edward Cullen is equally domineering and even more abusive if you could believe it. and if the creation of Katherine Kavanaugh could be relied upon, e l James is completely aware of these traits.
“I think that is one huge coincidence, Ana. You don’t think he was there to see you?”
“Ana, there’s something about him.” Her tone is full of warning. “He’s gorgeous, I agree, but I think he’s dangerous. Especially to someone like you.”
“I’m glad you’re back in one piece. There’s something about Christian,” [kate] adds quietly, apologetically. I give her a small, reassuring smile – all the while thinking… How the hell does she know?”
“This is next-generation tech.” She raises her eyebrows at me. “Most women get flowers or maybe jewelry,”[ referring to christian sending computer for ana’s BDSM research.
. “Are you going to come and help Ana with the move?” Her eyes flash. She’s challenging me[christian that is.]
“Ana, if he’s a jerk with commitment issues, dump him. Though I don’t really understand his commitment issues
“Grey – your cards are marked,”
e l James is completely aware that her fan-fic creation is a nut-case and nothing to be emulative about but i suspect that her clumsy editing did not make that clear and hence, when she feels people would understand, they don’t because she is herself is unaware that the tone of her novel oscillates between comedy and sarcasm to outright isolated instances of serious reflection on issues of consent and love. so you can never be sure that Anastasia is being sarcastic or exaggerating or serious or comic.keeping both factors in mind, lets us delve on what is Christian and why is he in a way much better character written than Edward Cullen.
there can be no debate that Edward Cullen looks to be swoon-worthy to half the population of teenagers in the world. i mean a girl like Bella whose parental attention for love is being prioritized according to their needs, would no wonder fall for a guy who seems to lavish his every attention and energy on her and so does his family. looking at the crux summary, it does not sound as romantic as we like to is it? even at the of 15 i was aware while reading it that feeling addicted to so much attention from her boyfriend and her family is preferable to Bella because Charlie and Renee certainly do not pay as much as attention as she deserves.
then comes Edward whose is full of angst that he was turned into a an immortal against his consent and still unable to assimilate his troubles even after having 100 years at his disposal. i have to say i don’t understand his problem. he is in peace with Carlisle but not his immortality? he feels rudderless but he was present during some revolutionary women empowerment movement, so handling Bella as if she is a porcelain, dumb, baby like object gets him off? and to top it off, surrounded by ostensibly exemplary example of equal partnership of Renee and Carlisle, so why is he so distressed?
knowing all this, his obsessive and isolating behavior with Bella looks nothing short of a disaster going to happen. and he really has no excuse or background to even explain.
e l James must have released this problem because she does some things right of the bat
made sure christian has human reasons to be distressed and his obsessive behavior. his parasomnia and night-terrors as well his deep-rooted self-loathing were effectively used for..
a pedophile Elena to pounce on a 15 year old christian. the united states law being so ambiguous on BDSM , it makes more sense that christian is effectively isolated by Elena from his family, peers, any guiding figure( especially when he paid to get trained in BDSM clubs)
his sexual interaction after that even was carefully controlled by Elena( she used to introduce new submissives to christian) so that nobody can really understand and question him on their clinical relationship.
anastasia being a virgin , though sound very outdated and sexist, does make sense so that we as an uninformed readers and Anastasia will be more willing to explore on why christian is so disturbing.
hence, in my next part, i will explain on how these factors make christian far more redeemable and understandable than his original outline.
rantofalifetime 