A diversion if you will
Oct. 30th, 2010 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_oracle To prove that I'm a big ol' nerd, we're going to disect one of the things about the new Sweet Valley Confidential US cover that is driving me INSANE.
The lavaliere.
Behold:
It's very sparkly and very pretty on its own. This much I agree on. However, it is not *the* lavaliere. It's not even close.
This is the lavaliere in its original glory:
BEHOLD. It is ridiculously simple in that it's a simple gold bar pendant. Google search that and you'll find quite a few things that are pretty much right on target (and even more that aren't.) It survived Margo trying to whack Lizbeth and was still prominently displayed until #115 when the illustrated versions of the Daniel twins took up residence above the SVH logo on the books.
Like so:
Right. There. Couldn't miss it if you looked for it at all. (Which you probably didn't but hey. It's there between the E in Francine and the P for Pascal if you needed help.)
Anyway.
This?
This is a key. How in the... why... what?
Look. From the aforementioned google search. Tiffany's, even.
OR
See? Simple. This isn't my favorite but it's still closer than a friggin' KEY. (And I love key necklaces something crazy.)
Odds are good that the magical lavaliere was given by Ned and Alice to the gruesome twosome because it would go with *everything*. It might not always be the best choice *coughLIZcough* for a given outfit, but it wouldn't look out of place with a tank top (see Secrets) and it worked well enough with the dress Margo and Liz wore to Lila's NYE party. And you know Lila's dress code. How is this hard to grasp?
With that out of the way, we return you to new!cover glory.
US:
Congrats, art department. You've airbrushed them into non-people. I'm getting the re-launch of The Vampire Diaries from the front cover and I've got to agree with people on the back cover. It's vaguely porntastic and the more you look at it, the stranger her upper lip and nose begin to look. See? Now you can't unsee it either.
I will say that if the back cover picture looked less like wax melting, I would love it. It's not perfect (even if you fixed the previously discussed flaws) but it sets the tone. Mystery! Sex! Bad sex, even! And blondes doing bad things to one another. I get it.
UK:
I... still don't know how to feel about this one. I've had less time to come to grips with it. I think the red and the pink clash, but it's not the first time they've used the combo (and Playing with Fire is a pretty well known SVH cover so...). It needs something tweaked to make it not so... "intern in the basement threw this together as a mockup"-y. I will say the models are very pretty, but the lack of a background is making things weird. White space! *is ded*
Thoughts? Opinions? Votes for me to be committed?
The lavaliere.
Behold:
It's very sparkly and very pretty on its own. This much I agree on. However, it is not *the* lavaliere. It's not even close.
This is the lavaliere in its original glory:
BEHOLD. It is ridiculously simple in that it's a simple gold bar pendant. Google search that and you'll find quite a few things that are pretty much right on target (and even more that aren't.) It survived Margo trying to whack Lizbeth and was still prominently displayed until #115 when the illustrated versions of the Daniel twins took up residence above the SVH logo on the books.
Like so:
Right. There. Couldn't miss it if you looked for it at all. (Which you probably didn't but hey. It's there between the E in Francine and the P for Pascal if you needed help.)
Anyway.
This?
This is a key. How in the... why... what?
Look. From the aforementioned google search. Tiffany's, even.
OR
See? Simple. This isn't my favorite but it's still closer than a friggin' KEY. (And I love key necklaces something crazy.)
Odds are good that the magical lavaliere was given by Ned and Alice to the gruesome twosome because it would go with *everything*. It might not always be the best choice *coughLIZcough* for a given outfit, but it wouldn't look out of place with a tank top (see Secrets) and it worked well enough with the dress Margo and Liz wore to Lila's NYE party. And you know Lila's dress code. How is this hard to grasp?
With that out of the way, we return you to new!cover glory.
US:
Congrats, art department. You've airbrushed them into non-people. I'm getting the re-launch of The Vampire Diaries from the front cover and I've got to agree with people on the back cover. It's vaguely porntastic and the more you look at it, the stranger her upper lip and nose begin to look. See? Now you can't unsee it either.
I will say that if the back cover picture looked less like wax melting, I would love it. It's not perfect (even if you fixed the previously discussed flaws) but it sets the tone. Mystery! Sex! Bad sex, even! And blondes doing bad things to one another. I get it.
UK:
I... still don't know how to feel about this one. I've had less time to come to grips with it. I think the red and the pink clash, but it's not the first time they've used the combo (and Playing with Fire is a pretty well known SVH cover so...). It needs something tweaked to make it not so... "intern in the basement threw this together as a mockup"-y. I will say the models are very pretty, but the lack of a background is making things weird. White space! *is ded*
Thoughts? Opinions? Votes for me to be committed?
