Good story/bad writer: (Was: What a snob!)/SPOILER for Twilight and Dawn

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" <alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:

> > zanooda:

> > Did Angel or Spike sleep in coffins :-)? 


> Ali:

> Angel did spend a lot of time in a mausoleum. Does that count?


zanooda:

That depends :-). Was he actually sleeping in there or just spending time :-)? 



> Ali wrote:
  
> Angel is definitely a part of the new age reimagining of the vampire
> as a monster struggling against his nature, so if that's your thing,
> it's worth checking out.


zanooda:

I guess I like it, only if there is not too much of it :-). If the entire book/movie is *only* about this struggle (man against himself, as you say) without a good external story, I would probably get bored :-). 


> Ali:
 
> I do agree about that sleeping in coffins thing, though, but I can
> understand it.  Coffins do go along with the rising from the dead
> element of the mythos.


Really? I thought vampires get recharged in there or something, LOL.


zanooda, who is definitely not an expert on vampires...