It happens in the Time Traveller's Wife, too, right?
Well, not really. t spoiler He's already married to her in the future when he meets her as a kid. And behaves appropriately and keeps his identity from her as long as he can, IIRC. t /spoiler
Anya: We should drop a piano on her. It always works for that creepy cartoon rabbit when he's running from that nice man with the speech impediment. Giles: Yes, or perhaps we could paint a convincing fake tunnel on the side of a mountain.
'Touched'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
smonster - Jun 20, 2011 10:42:26 am PDT #13395 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Zenkitty - Jun 20, 2011 10:42:51 am PDT #13396 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Creepy guys falling in love with young girls... well, better that he wait years for her to come of age than that he try to woo her now.
Honestly, though, it's the "waiting for her" part that's really creepy to me. If a young man saw a 17-year-old girl and thought, dang, she's cool, if she were older I'd ask her out, and then moved on with his life and happened to meet her again in 5 or 6 years and said, hey! you grew up! and you're still awesome, wanna go out? That would be okay. It's the obsessiveness of the waiting that ain't right. And the age disparity, if it's more than about 5 years. The difference between 17 and 22 is not as disturbing as the difference between 17 and 32.
I met my first real boyfriend when I was 16 and he was 23. He "waited" for me to turn 18, insisted we get married, and lost his shit when I refused. Then I discovered that what had seemed so cool was in fact a creepy psycho.
If she's 8 when he falls for her, though, he's a nutcase. I'm sorry, dude: even if you two were madly in love in a previous life, in THIS life you're a pedophile.
Jesse - Jun 20, 2011 10:47:05 am PDT #13397 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, good, smonster.
That actor is Eugene Tooms! He married a 16-year-old. The creepy factor went up by 20.
Hmm. I don't remember Tooms at all -- I must not have been really watching XF yet at that point?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 20, 2011 10:54:44 am PDT #13398 of 30001
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
Wait, what? Really? Not enough EWWW in the freaking world.
At least it's funny when viewed in this form: [link]
brenda m - Jun 20, 2011 10:58:37 am PDT #13399 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Isn't that part of the plot of the last sparkly vampire book? Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire?
Wait, that is how they resolve the whole Edward/whast's his name thing? Oh man, not enough ew in the world.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2011 11:01:45 am PDT #13400 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I haven't seen any of the previous movies, but I might catch this one just to see how they handle the WTF.
Oh, it will be FULL of glorious, glorious WTF. Because in addition to that bit of plot crazy, the movie will have the Cesarean by vampire teeth part! I am still sad that the movie wasn't directed by David Cronenberg.
Sophia Brooks - Jun 20, 2011 11:05:00 am PDT #13401 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Wow. Twilight is way more bizarre than I thought it was.
JZ - Jun 20, 2011 11:06:18 am PDT #13402 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yeah, I haven't seen any of the others, but I've been perversely longing to see this one ever since Cleolinda detailed all the excruciating details of the WTFery. I may have to sneak a martini shaker into the theater.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2011 11:06:56 am PDT #13403 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The last book is one long GodKing Badfic. Cleolinda's recap is the best coverage of it, by far.
Atropa - Jun 20, 2011 11:08:23 am PDT #13404 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I may have to sneak a martini shaker into the theater.
I'm planning on going to one of those fancy theaters that serves food & alcohol, so I don't have to bother with smuggling flasks of absinthe with me again. Instead, helpful staff will bring me booze!