The Host movie.

[keire_ke]

Stephenie Meyer is, I think, very talented when it comes to burying her admittedly excellent ideas in sub-par prose and non-existent plot. I say this, because she frequently takes the trouble to present an alternative take on the same events which end up being more exciting and evoke more genuine emotion than the entire story. Case in point the

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[twelve_pastels]

From what I got of "The Host", it's basically a Stargate romance badfic, correct me if I'm wrong. Parasitic aliens using humans as hosts? Eyes that glow a different colour, a metallic one? Humans running in fear and having a resistance? Nothing of the host survives, except when it does?

Dude. Come on, really.

[keire_ke]

I've never seen Stargate, so I wouldn't know, but I heard that the same basically applies to Animorphs, I think? Parasitic aliens also appear in Isaac Asimov's stories. And hey, humans begin a resistance the moment the government sneezes wrong.

I kind of appreciate the approach she takes though, for once there's no cult of violence and the hero being a mindless smashing machine. Her execution is very poor, but I read yesterday someone going on a rather sexist tangent on how it's sci-fi for girls, in that they befriended the aliens instead of bashing their heads in, and as offensive as they were, they did have a point, and I appreciate it.

[seraphim_grace]

All of this took place in a psychiatric hospital, where she was treated for having premonitions.

isn't this Drusilla's story from Buffy, that they found her in a nuthouse and turned her because they wanted her visions for themselves and it just drove her totally mad....
just sayin'

[keire_ke]

Was it? I thought Angelus turned Drusilla on the night she was going to take vows to become a nun. At least that's what Angel said early in Buffy, I haven't watched the whole thing.

[seraphim_grace]

did you not watch Angel?
She was sequestered because she was batshit and had visions - ergo a prophet, he and Spike broke into the nunnery, slaughtered everyone in front of her and he turned her for two reasons, one her visions and 2 to keep spike, she was a gift to him.
and I can't find it on youtube, damn you for predating the internet addiction where everything is available on youtube.

[keire_ke]

First two season. :)

They aren't exceptionally original ideas, true, and she fails at developing them, but still better than her A plots.