Twilight

All right. Time to kill the hype.

Let me show where I stand first: From what I have read, it's writing is horrible. Not down to atrocious, that would be evil. But it's bad writing. Fine. It's in first person. but would it kill to stop mentioning how smexeh Edward Cullen is? I mean, sure, it's from the blinded-by-love lead lady, but please, stop gushing at how hawt E.C. is. And, F.Y.I, it's not ok to fall in love with someone who 'admits to her face he feels urges to kill' you. (Words in inverted commas paraphrased from someone's paragraph.)


And here is, from what I find, the best Anti-Twilight paragraph:

"There is a lot wrong with Stephanie Meyer's writing. Annoying, one-dimensional characters, overused and redundant adjectives, a disturbingly sick and obsessive relationship, and the most disgustingly blatant Mary Sue since Stephen Dedalus. Not to mention the fact that a love story that is supposedly about seeing inner beauty is impossible to take seriously when the writer can't stop gushing over how gorgeous and pretty and beautiful and hot and sexy and graceful and attractive Edward is. It's also worth noting the fact that it ignores pretty much all accepted ideas of vampirism, removing every single weakness and curse vampirism entails, from holy water to sunlight to the need to drink human blood, and replaces them with...random superpowers. Then there's the utterly twisted plot points, like Bella marrying and getting pregnant right out of high school, Bella refusing to get away from a guy who admits to her face he feels urges to kill her solely because he's hot (or would "dazzling" be more appropriate?), and a werewolf falls in love with a newborn baby and promises to care for her until she is "of age" so he can woo her. If that wasn't horrifying enough, the baby conveniently happens to physically mature at an accelerated rate, and will look 17 when she is 7, so that's okay. No it's not.

I could accept this as a badly written book, but there are some things here that go beyond fantasy and reveal either a very naive or very twisted author. The series, which is written for girls nearing dating age, idolizes a textbook abusive relationship. Edward is controlling, prone to bursts of anger, moody, and jealous. He cuts her off socially, and she follows him like a blind puppy, expressing horror at the very concept of him leaving her. Or, you know, killing her. He justifies any wrongdoing against her with “It’s just because I love you” or “It’s what’s best for you.” As if that wasn't enough, he watches her while she sleeps. That's not sweet, that is stalkerish, and if a girl gets the idea that this is acceptable from Edward, she will be ignorant of a classic warning sign of a very dangerous person. It presents a risk of violence and abuse as an exciting obstacle that can be overcome with true love, and treats obsessiveness as romantic and flattering, which is a great mindset to have while being abused. I have enough confidence in human intelligence to know that fans of these books aren't all going to be eager to get into abusive relationships, but if the best thing I can say about the love story is "readers will probably be smart enough not to emulate the main character," that is not a good thing.

The Twilight series is a poorly written story of an obsessive relationship told by an unreliable narrator, but even with all this I could still ignore it. But there is one story aspect that I simply cannot overlook, one that fills me with such rage and disgust at the very thought of it that I feel true, genuine hatred for this series and its author. I am talking, of course, about sparkly vampires. That is not a joke. The vampires sparkle. They're not weak to sunlight, it makes them glitter. I could understand if it was a cringeworthy metaphor, but no. As if Edward wasn't already slathered in adjective and adverb vomit, he has to literally emit glowing rays of light to really drive the point home that he's pretty. For Pete's sake, even My Little Pony has the taste and common decency to forgo bioluminescence, and she's a horse who exists for no reason other than to look pretty. Edward, a humanoid, has no such excuse. For all the poor writing and warped notions of how romance works, it's the fact that Edward is basically a big piece of jewelry with a rocklike personality to match that drives the point home that these are bad books.




Sparkly. Vampires." - Cathexis, BZpower Member (If you're reading this, hope ya don't mind! =D)


AND SHE RUINED VAMPIRES.

For fuck's sake, Vampires have to drink Human blood, they are weak against sunlight, and usually, the urge to drink human blood will overcome any other emotion.

Are those present in the book? Don't think so.

And here's a thought, Edward has been around for a long time. Technically he's like 200 or so years old. Bella is what? 18?

That's pedophilia, I say! E.C. is a pedophile. =O

But that's not the point. The point is that WHY is everyone so crazy about the Twilight movie? Because it's based, on a book, that all fangirls flock to read. FFS, a movie of a book usually ends in tears, unless the director is super-cool.

Everything, anything, against Twilight, can be found here:

Linkeh

I resteth my case.

Let the fangirls kill me. I'd like that.

So get the killing started.

[~K~]