My Sphere of Curious Delight
I'm a 20 year old guy; making it all up as he goes and bluffing all the way.
I'm still waiting for the weird anon questions...
YEAH RAMONA. BECAUSE YOU’RE A TOTAL BITCH AND NO ONE LIKES YOU. GO HOME.
Scott’s also a dick, tbf. His inability to end a relationship, his tendency to be uncaring about the feelings of others, his self-obsessed nature. This gets explored more in the comic, fully addressing how much of a bastard he really is.
I don’t care about Scott though, Ramona acts likes she’s ‘oh so fit and mysterious, omg everyone wants me therefore I can act like a super cunt.’
It actually makes me angrier than Summer Finn in 500 days.Ramona is damaged. She’s had some rough relationships, especially Gideon, who even years after the fact still has control over her. This is established quite a few times, that Ramona is not a good person, and that she’s not a Manic Pixie Dream Girl destined to make Scott’s life magically better by dint of her presence. Same goes for Scott.
As to the Summer Finn comparison…let’s not say things we can’t take back, now.
Arrrgh, ‘damaged’ what does that even mean. Everyone in life has been ‘damaged’ it’s just no excuse. It’s not even that she’s not a ‘good girl’, she’s just so unlikeable, like I don’t see how anyone can be interested in her character other than ‘omg she’s so hot and weird/quirky. Omg she’s been through stuff man’
Seems like her tough past is just a sorry excuse to make her more of a ‘complex’ character.Yes. Everyone is damaged. But Ramona has had worse experiences than you or I have been through (her relationship with Gideon is severely fucked up), and not everyone recovers or responds to their scars in the same way. I’m interested because Scott Pilgrim started as your typical “boy meets girl” indie-cute narrative and then changed into a study on relationships, coming to the conclusion that neither Scott nor Ramona were normally functioning people, or people the reader should aspire to be. Both are self-obsessed assholes carrying a lot of baggage, and if they want a chance at making their relationship work, they need to come to terms with that. Not just their own problems, but those of their partner’s. Why do you think Scott’s ultimate weapon is a sword literally called THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING?
You know how the romance between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan is doomed because Gatsby never took into account what Daisy wanted, but rather his constructed fairy tale vision of a perfect future? That’s basically Scott and Ramona’s relationship, only that succeeds once they pull their heads out of their respective arses.Meh, I don’t think so. I mean, she comes across as a “poor little rich girl”. I mean, yes Gideon is cartoonishly evil with regards to controlling her (literally having a chip to control her) but it gets sorted out pretty quickly. I always felt their relationship in the film felt way too forced. There’s a deleted scene that makes them have so much more chemistry but it was cut because Ramona *shock horror* smokes.
Anyway, Scott’s power was self-respect? And that failed xPThere I go confusing the comic and the film again re: Scott’s ultimate weapon. My point still stands regardless.
Also, I doubt it was cut because a major character was smoking. This isn’t a film made for children, Ramona doesn’t light one up at any other point during the film, and it couldn’t have been cut to give the film for “more mainstream appeal” because…fucking look at it!
But…that completely demolishes your point? Self respect has nothing to do with the understanding point you made.
And yet the fact remains: It was better shot, made more sense, had real depth and was cut. What other reason could it be?
YEAH RAMONA. BECAUSE YOU’RE A TOTAL BITCH AND NO ONE LIKES YOU. GO HOME.
Scott’s also a dick, tbf. His inability to end a relationship, his tendency to be uncaring about the feelings of others, his self-obsessed nature. This gets explored more in the comic, fully addressing how much of a bastard he really is.
I don’t care about Scott though, Ramona acts likes she’s ‘oh so fit and mysterious, omg everyone wants me therefore I can act like a super cunt.’
It actually makes me angrier than Summer Finn in 500 days.Ramona is damaged. She’s had some rough relationships, especially Gideon, who even years after the fact still has control over her. This is established quite a few times, that Ramona is not a good person, and that she’s not a Manic Pixie Dream Girl destined to make Scott’s life magically better by dint of her presence. Same goes for Scott.
As to the Summer Finn comparison…let’s not say things we can’t take back, now.
Arrrgh, ‘damaged’ what does that even mean. Everyone in life has been ‘damaged’ it’s just no excuse. It’s not even that she’s not a ‘good girl’, she’s just so unlikeable, like I don’t see how anyone can be interested in her character other than ‘omg she’s so hot and weird/quirky. Omg she’s been through stuff man’
Seems like her tough past is just a sorry excuse to make her more of a ‘complex’ character.Yes. Everyone is damaged. But Ramona has had worse experiences than you or I have been through (her relationship with Gideon is severely fucked up), and not everyone recovers or responds to their scars in the same way. I’m interested because Scott Pilgrim started as your typical “boy meets girl” indie-cute narrative and then changed into a study on relationships, coming to the conclusion that neither Scott nor Ramona were normally functioning people, or people the reader should aspire to be. Both are self-obsessed assholes carrying a lot of baggage, and if they want a chance at making their relationship work, they need to come to terms with that. Not just their own problems, but those of their partner’s. Why do you think Scott’s ultimate weapon is a sword literally called THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING?
You know how the romance between Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan is doomed because Gatsby never took into account what Daisy wanted, but rather his constructed fairy tale vision of a perfect future? That’s basically Scott and Ramona’s relationship, only that succeeds once they pull their heads out of their respective arses.
Meh, I don’t think so. I mean, she comes across as a “poor little rich girl”. I mean, yes Gideon is cartoonishly evil with regards to controlling her (literally having a chip to control her) but it gets sorted out pretty quickly. I always felt their relationship in the film felt way too forced. There’s a deleted scene that makes them have so much more chemistry but it was cut because Ramona *shock horror* smokes.
Anyway, Scott’s power was self-respect? And that failed xP
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I’d like to do cute shit with you. But also fuck the living fuck out of you.
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That’s all of my relation…nope, all of my good relationships.