That's true. She seems to take more liberty with interpretation than with the actual details of the setting. If you think about it, "Meyer's vampires are invulnerable to that which would normally kill a vampire" is a statement of fact about her characters, and Mervin accepts it as gospel. On the other hand, "My vampires are awesome and good people" is just how Meyer interprets her characters, and so she doesn't feel compelled to honor that--likely for no other reason than that she doesn't like Twilight or Meyer.
What gets to me about the person who tried to object to Mervin's "children are selfish" rant is that the people who responded to her didn't even address that point specifically. They basically said "Maybe you're right about REAL children but Renesmee is not a real child so she doesn't count." They're dodging the issue, like they're scared of admitting openly that they're wrong. It reminds me, again, of the way the HMS_STFU people regarded those on Death to Capslock. If the DTCLers complained about how mustache-twirlingly evil something made Snape look they were shallow twits who just couldn't accept that their precious Snape could actually have flaws, but if the DTCLers tried to make the case that Snape, while flawed, was not QUITE as evil as some made him out to be, then suddenly they were so fannishly eager to praise Snape that they were praising him for every little thing, even if it just meant he hadn't been as much of a jerk as he could have been. They were so eager to blame those who had a different way of looking at things that they didn't even bother with internal consistency--they just dredged up more ways to discredit DTCL.
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Date: 2013-07-04 06:41 pm (UTC)What gets to me about the person who tried to object to Mervin's "children are selfish" rant is that the people who responded to her didn't even address that point specifically. They basically said "Maybe you're right about REAL children but Renesmee is not a real child so she doesn't count." They're dodging the issue, like they're scared of admitting openly that they're wrong. It reminds me, again, of the way the HMS_STFU people regarded those on Death to Capslock. If the DTCLers complained about how mustache-twirlingly evil something made Snape look they were shallow twits who just couldn't accept that their precious Snape could actually have flaws, but if the DTCLers tried to make the case that Snape, while flawed, was not QUITE as evil as some made him out to be, then suddenly they were so fannishly eager to praise Snape that they were praising him for every little thing, even if it just meant he hadn't been as much of a jerk as he could have been. They were so eager to blame those who had a different way of looking at things that they didn't even bother with internal consistency--they just dredged up more ways to discredit DTCL.