On Queen's Thief vs Tangled
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queensthief On the recent post regarding the similarities between the Queen's Thief series and the movie Tangled:
How do these similarities make you feel about the movie? Do you resent them/the movie? Do you find it suspiciously or annoyingly interesting? Or do the coincidences make you like the movie all that much more?
I'm on the fence myself. On the one hand, I sort of sniff at the movie for being blatantly unoriginal and because Gen the Thief is totally superior to Eugene the thief. But on the other hand, ahh, it's coolly uncanny how many similarities there are!
How do these similarities make you feel about the movie? Do you resent them/the movie? Do you find it suspiciously or annoyingly interesting? Or do the coincidences make you like the movie all that much more?
I'm on the fence myself. On the one hand, I sort of sniff at the movie for being blatantly unoriginal and because Gen the Thief is totally superior to Eugene the thief. But on the other hand, ahh, it's coolly uncanny how many similarities there are!
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Date: 6/15/11 05:26 am (UTC)I think, for your last point, that it's probably a combination of both. There might also be a secondary originality effect: sometimes, the first book of a particular type that a reader reads becomes the paragon of that type of story in their head, and no other story ever quite compares with it, because it came first, and was the most fresh and new seeming at the time. I know I've had it happen to me with a few stories. I can appreciate other books that do the same thing, but there's just a sort of... "loyalty" factor. I can't ever bring myself to like the later books as much as the first one, because it was, for me, my first exposure to that particular twist/trope/stereotype.