I don't think it had much on plot, to be sure. Actually in a recent interview Green said that plots are really his weaker skill, which is why he is glad he didn't write the screenplay. But I think 1. the characters are engaging and 2. the story does it's best to be frank about chronic illness and disability. At least…

I'm going to still try to see EoT because I like sci-fi time-twisted stuff like that and I've heard the acting is solid. But yeah, I did go see TFioS last weekend.

So it's cool to like or dislike whatever you want. Really, it is.

About the Anne Frank house thing ... yeah it's awkward. In the movie's defense, they focused way more time and attention to Hazel willing herself up the many stairs (and the ladder) up to the attic than they do showing the kiss. The whole sequence is way more about her making the choice to push her struggling body up…

I'll tell you though, I wept hard reading the book but I managed to make it through the movie and didn't cry. Maybe because I knew what was going to happen? Maybe I already cried out my feelings reading it? Dunno. The closest I got to tearing up was the flashback to Hazel's mom and what Hazel hears her mom say just as…

I actually kind of liked that he was sort of dorky. It makes the "cool hot guy love interest" thing not seem so cliche, if that makes sense. Like, he was kind of a normal, thinks-he-knows-the-world kid.

I would say if you do want to see it, wait until it's on Netflix or something so if things get too much you can just turn it off. Because yeah, it would probably hit really close to home.

Yeah, it's kind of my least favorite part of the story. Wasn't a dealbreaker, but yeah I get why people are turned off by it.

I actually found myself liking Gus more in the movie. I got him a bit more, I think. Some of that really does have to do with the fact that we're watching the scenes instead of in Hazel's head, so there are parts of Gus that we see as viewers that aren't as dazzled by him like Hazel is, if that makes sense. Like when…

I think you can make the argument that him using the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope is also subverting it - namely by having his male protagonist be REALLY unreliable narrators as far as how they see the girls until he realizes "Oh right, I should be viewing them complexly and not as happiness dispensers." Granted I…

Yeah, I'm 28 and have read the book and after watching it in a theater filled to the brim with teenage girls I realized that the majority of what I liked about the story came from the frank look at chronic illness (the book does a bit more into the way people treat you like "the other" when they know you're sick)…

I'm a fan of Green's webseries (series-es, really, because my god does he do a ton of projects online) and he was already doing his vlogging when his friend died. He ended up doing a video after he found out she died and he was just completely devastated. I know that he's said that TFioS isn't HER story (her parents…

Yes! It's like opposite math!

Wow ... fuck that guy. Like, Jesus Christ what the hell.

I read the word "trend" and my stomach churned. Ugh. Just Ugh.

Yeah, I'm tired of people who hear women talking about issues online going "You're just talking, not doing!" Except they have no idea what those women do outside of the internet. And considering a ton of women do feel helpless in the sexism they see every day, telling them they aren't doing enough is a horrible thing…

A good portion of the article is about how HBO were pushing these boundaries in earlier shows, but they were pushing them BETTER. To make a point about violence. And Game of Thrones does sometimes do that, but more and more they DO use titillation and the male gaze and make it about pure .

Honestly (and I was trying not to be sarcastic when I answered your question before) a lot of the stuff in the show is done through the lens of our own world and the injustices that happen in our world. A reflection of real world violence. However, the show does go into exploitation (the opposite of empathy for the…

Who the hell can sue them, exactly? With everything else that has happened on that show, can you really tell me they're going to sue them for showing penises? Especially since they have show one actual penis in an early episode .... they just don't want to do it you know, like they show all the ladies.

Look, I've seen way too many people in this thread go to "well just don't watch it" when criticism comes up. If that's not what you mean, I apologize. I'm just getting a little irritated that when people bring up legitimate points, the first response is "be quiet and ignore it."