I know they proverbially say you shouldn't read the comments on YouTube, but my jaw dropped when I came across the comment chain in response to Kyla Hint (Christine actually did fall in love with him at one point and all he wanted was to live a normal life with the woman he loved. If you've never read the book I highly suggest you do cause it puts a whole new perspective on the characters)
When someone points out that in fact the book Christine does NOT fall in love with the Phantom, it turns out that the gospel being quoted here for the 'true' Erik is Susan Kay (and even so the commenter hasn't actually read anything other than the E/C fangirling section at the end of that book "because it hurt my heart so much for him").
And then we get flabbergasting comments like Which is why many of us believe that at some point she came to her senses as to who the real man was... After all this time, I suspect there are more people who believe Christine wound up with Erik and, if she did not love him immediately, grew to love him (e.g. fans prefer to ignore all versions of canon and mutually agree on a new ending) and (in response to the complaint that Erik is NOT 'the real man' in that relationship) LOL - you need to read some fan fiction. Erik redeems himself.
I think "LOL you need to read some fan fiction" as a rebuttal to people who are citing canon facts is one of the most bizarre arguments I've ever seen... (I checked out her story: she starts off by rewriting the Final Lair so that Christine tells the Phantom she is in love with him, then goes on to state that she had told Raoul on the roof of the Opera House that she would never marry him, and then assure Raoul "You are the murderer in your heart". I can see why she prefers the fanfiction version of the story :p)
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Date: 2018-08-01 01:53 am (UTC)I know they proverbially say you shouldn't read the comments on YouTube, but my jaw dropped when I came across the comment chain in response to Kyla Hint (Christine actually did fall in love with him at one point and all he wanted was to live a normal life with the woman he loved. If you've never read the book I highly suggest you do cause it puts a whole new perspective on the characters)
When someone points out that in fact the book Christine does NOT fall in love with the Phantom, it turns out that the gospel being quoted here for the 'true' Erik is Susan Kay (and even so the commenter hasn't actually read anything other than the E/C fangirling section at the end of that book "because it hurt my heart so much for him").
And then we get flabbergasting comments like Which is why many of us believe that at some point she came to her senses as to who the real man was... After all this time, I suspect there are more people who believe Christine wound up with Erik and, if she did not love him immediately, grew to love him (e.g. fans prefer to ignore all versions of canon and mutually agree on a new ending) and (in response to the complaint that Erik is NOT 'the real man' in that relationship) LOL - you need to read some fan fiction. Erik redeems himself.
I think "LOL you need to read some fan fiction" as a rebuttal to people who are citing canon facts is one of the most bizarre arguments I've ever seen...
(I checked out her story: she starts off by rewriting the Final Lair so that Christine tells the Phantom she is in love with him, then goes on to state that she had told Raoul on the roof of the Opera House that she would never marry him, and then assure Raoul "You are the murderer in your heart". I can see why she prefers the fanfiction version of the story :p)