104. The thing I always saw with TTTW is that it KNOWS the relationship is far from sweet and perfect. The narrative - and the charavers even - KNOW it's not a healthy relationship and they realize how it looks. That? Already makes it better than Twilight. Then we also have that the story has more plot besides the romance, that the disease actually DOES something other than being shiny, and more than anything, there are consequences, because in Twilight, just about everything seems to be consequences-free or taking the consequence-lite version of it.
And I also really, really liked the premise that 'everything that has already happened you can't change', since in most stories that's one of the things that always happen: you can rewrite history, nothing is set in stone. Does it make things creepy? Fuck yes. But that's one of the things I like. If Twilight hadn't tried to add the 'PERRRRFECTION' creed to it, and with a better writing (because I think TTTW's prose is gorgeous), things might have been different.
I'll admit to this: I did hate that Henry left that last letter, thus leaving things 'to happen'. I would have liked the chance to see how things happened without Henry to say a thing.
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And I also really, really liked the premise that 'everything that has already happened you can't change', since in most stories that's one of the things that always happen: you can rewrite history, nothing is set in stone. Does it make things creepy? Fuck yes. But that's one of the things I like. If Twilight hadn't tried to add the 'PERRRRFECTION' creed to it, and with a better writing (because I think TTTW's prose is gorgeous), things might have been different.
I'll admit to this: I did hate that Henry left that last letter, thus leaving things 'to happen'. I would have liked the chance to see how things happened without Henry to say a thing.