REBEL & Percy Jackson
Mar. 6th, 2010 02:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
branquignoleSo, enough procrastination. This is a real entry. *cough* I promised one about REBEL by R. J. Anderson- and here it is. Roughly one week after I finished reading it, so I hope that I can still remember everything I wanted to say.
The first thing about the sequel to KNIFE that kind of nagged at me in a bad way was the info dumping. When you open KNIFE, you dive right into the plot, fighting crows and standing up to Queens and falling in love with humans. You get involved really quickly. I think R. J. Anderson is incredibly good at this kind of thing. The problem is that REBEL required something else. Two new character POVs had to be introduced. Loads (and I do mean loads and loads) of things about the outside world (you know, that thing outside of the Oakenwyld :D) had to be made clear. But in KNIFE, we never really once left the Oakenwyld apart from one short trip, and I was just a bit overwhelmed with all that had to be learnt about other faeries and their relationship to humans and so on and so forth. So it was really difficult to get into the book at first.
The good thing is: I did not put it aside. I became ill the day after I had started reading and since I had nothing else to do, I lay in bed and tried to become friends with REBEL. Which worked. Brilliantly. At some point, I just couldn't stop turning pages anymore. I got as caught up in Timothy's and Linden's story as I had with Paul's and Knife's. I was glad to see all my friends again, Paul and Peri (because that is what Knife is called now), Wink and Thorn (my favouritest faeries from the Oak), and also to get to know new friends. Such as Rob. I love him- he's the sort of bad guy we girls tend to fall in love with, only that he's actually one of the good guys. That plot twist was wonderfully done and even I doubted him for a moment. But I kept saying to myself, R. J. Anderson is trying to trick me into not liking him anymore or something, Rob is one of the good guys, he's one of the good guys, he's just brilliant at play acting... and, well, it turned out I was right. Which only makes him more awesome. :)
I was also right on account of the Empress. I guessed from very early on who it was and felt like telling the characters how stupid they were for not seeing it, but since it was totally reasonable for them to believe differently, I didn't feel that was something incredibly negative. On the whole, I'm very pleased that I did like REBEL in the end because I love sequels and it makes me sad when I just can't seem to get into them as much as I did with the first book.
In other news I went to see Percy Jackson recently because a friend invited me and I could not possibly decline. I mean, she paid. I have to say that it was a rather amusing movie too. In a "mwaha, oh gosh, look at how stupid the plot is" way. It was really bad. I didn't like most of the actors either- apart from Sean Bean who I've fallen in love with a long time ago, and Rosario Dawson who portrays Mimi in RENT and is therefore LOVE. I also rather liked the guy who played Grover, but Annabeth and Percy? Not so much. None of the girls that went to see that movie with me were able to understand why I didn't like Percy!guy.
EVERYONE: OMG I loved Percy I mean GAH. drools
ME: Er...
EVERYONE: Didn't you just LOVE him as well?
ME: Er...
EVERYONE: stares incredulously
ME: cheerfully I liked Sean Bean!
Well, what can I say. I like men better than cutesy boys with sticky legs. Who are bad actors. But as I said, the plot was rather... intriguing.
PERCY: gazes soulfully at Annabeth
ANNABETH: gazes soulfully back
PERCY: leers
ANNABETH: You know what. I think I'm going to kill you.
PERCY: What, why?
ANNABETH: Because that's what I do. And also, our parents hated each other.
PERCY: Alright, then.
ANNABETH: I've changed my mind! I'm coming with you on this dangerous and deathly quest in search of Hades!
PERCY: This is a dangerous and deathly quest and you're a GIRL- ooh. Alright, come along then.
PERCY: Hooray, I'm on a dangerous and deathly quest with a girl-
GROVER: And a satyr. Whose duty it is to protect you and I will not falter- oh look, these girls are waving at me, see you.
PERCY: So, I've been in the halfgod camp for, what, one day? And I can fight with a sword almost as well as Annabeth, who has been in that camp for almost all her life? People, who WROTE this script?
PERCY, ANNABETH & GROVER (PAG): We are on a dangerous and deathly quest to find the last of Persephone's pearls. We have no time to lose!
RANDOM WOMAN: How about some lotus blossoms?
PAG: Oh well, I guess we can put ourselves in a drug haze for five days. I mean, it's not as if we were in a hurry.
ANNABETH: I am extremely intelligent. Look at me! I sparkle with intelligence!
PERCY: So do I! Whoa, hang on, that doesn't make sense. How did the last five days pass by so quickly?
ANNABETH: Oh yeah, right, cue. Hey guys, this totally makes sense. Those were the lotus-eaters. I probably could have realised that before I ate those blossoms, since the script states that I am extremely intelligent, what with me being the daughter of Athene. But I guess it would have spoilt all the fun.
PERCY: Oh hey, let's do some snogging before the movie is over. It would improve it loads.
ANNABETH: I'm sorry, mister, it's not in the script.
CREDITS: snicker at disappointed audience
And that was really the worst thing about this movie. That there was no snogging in it. At all.
The first thing about the sequel to KNIFE that kind of nagged at me in a bad way was the info dumping. When you open KNIFE, you dive right into the plot, fighting crows and standing up to Queens and falling in love with humans. You get involved really quickly. I think R. J. Anderson is incredibly good at this kind of thing. The problem is that REBEL required something else. Two new character POVs had to be introduced. Loads (and I do mean loads and loads) of things about the outside world (you know, that thing outside of the Oakenwyld :D) had to be made clear. But in KNIFE, we never really once left the Oakenwyld apart from one short trip, and I was just a bit overwhelmed with all that had to be learnt about other faeries and their relationship to humans and so on and so forth. So it was really difficult to get into the book at first.
The good thing is: I did not put it aside. I became ill the day after I had started reading and since I had nothing else to do, I lay in bed and tried to become friends with REBEL. Which worked. Brilliantly. At some point, I just couldn't stop turning pages anymore. I got as caught up in Timothy's and Linden's story as I had with Paul's and Knife's. I was glad to see all my friends again, Paul and Peri (because that is what Knife is called now), Wink and Thorn (my favouritest faeries from the Oak), and also to get to know new friends. Such as Rob. I love him- he's the sort of bad guy we girls tend to fall in love with, only that he's actually one of the good guys. That plot twist was wonderfully done and even I doubted him for a moment. But I kept saying to myself, R. J. Anderson is trying to trick me into not liking him anymore or something, Rob is one of the good guys, he's one of the good guys, he's just brilliant at play acting... and, well, it turned out I was right. Which only makes him more awesome. :)
I was also right on account of the Empress. I guessed from very early on who it was and felt like telling the characters how stupid they were for not seeing it, but since it was totally reasonable for them to believe differently, I didn't feel that was something incredibly negative. On the whole, I'm very pleased that I did like REBEL in the end because I love sequels and it makes me sad when I just can't seem to get into them as much as I did with the first book.
In other news I went to see Percy Jackson recently because a friend invited me and I could not possibly decline. I mean, she paid. I have to say that it was a rather amusing movie too. In a "mwaha, oh gosh, look at how stupid the plot is" way. It was really bad. I didn't like most of the actors either- apart from Sean Bean who I've fallen in love with a long time ago, and Rosario Dawson who portrays Mimi in RENT and is therefore LOVE. I also rather liked the guy who played Grover, but Annabeth and Percy? Not so much. None of the girls that went to see that movie with me were able to understand why I didn't like Percy!guy.
EVERYONE: OMG I loved Percy I mean GAH. drools
ME: Er...
EVERYONE: Didn't you just LOVE him as well?
ME: Er...
EVERYONE: stares incredulously
ME: cheerfully I liked Sean Bean!
Well, what can I say. I like men better than cutesy boys with sticky legs. Who are bad actors. But as I said, the plot was rather... intriguing.
PERCY: gazes soulfully at Annabeth
ANNABETH: gazes soulfully back
PERCY: leers
ANNABETH: You know what. I think I'm going to kill you.
PERCY: What, why?
ANNABETH: Because that's what I do. And also, our parents hated each other.
PERCY: Alright, then.
ANNABETH: I've changed my mind! I'm coming with you on this dangerous and deathly quest in search of Hades!
PERCY: This is a dangerous and deathly quest and you're a GIRL- ooh. Alright, come along then.
PERCY: Hooray, I'm on a dangerous and deathly quest with a girl-
GROVER: And a satyr. Whose duty it is to protect you and I will not falter- oh look, these girls are waving at me, see you.
PERCY: So, I've been in the halfgod camp for, what, one day? And I can fight with a sword almost as well as Annabeth, who has been in that camp for almost all her life? People, who WROTE this script?
PERCY, ANNABETH & GROVER (PAG): We are on a dangerous and deathly quest to find the last of Persephone's pearls. We have no time to lose!
RANDOM WOMAN: How about some lotus blossoms?
PAG: Oh well, I guess we can put ourselves in a drug haze for five days. I mean, it's not as if we were in a hurry.
ANNABETH: I am extremely intelligent. Look at me! I sparkle with intelligence!
PERCY: So do I! Whoa, hang on, that doesn't make sense. How did the last five days pass by so quickly?
ANNABETH: Oh yeah, right, cue. Hey guys, this totally makes sense. Those were the lotus-eaters. I probably could have realised that before I ate those blossoms, since the script states that I am extremely intelligent, what with me being the daughter of Athene. But I guess it would have spoilt all the fun.
PERCY: Oh hey, let's do some snogging before the movie is over. It would improve it loads.
ANNABETH: I'm sorry, mister, it's not in the script.
CREDITS: snicker at disappointed audience
And that was really the worst thing about this movie. That there was no snogging in it. At all.
