Am I the Only Person who Hates Edward Cullen?

[Radelaide]

No wonder there are no women on the internet. You idiots would make them feel terrible.

You're a dude?

No, honey. I'm a chick. I just brave some very stupid people on the internet. (Not implying you)

 

[Radelaide]

No wonder there are no women on the internet. You idiots would make them feel terrible.

Just doing our civic duties.

You dropkick. Lol.

 

[jboking]

I loved the books for TWO reasons.
One: They were written like bad fan fiction and were absolutely delicious.
And Two: Since Harry Potter, they were the best books I'd read.

I hated Lord of the Rings. I couldn't get past the first chapter because of the utter crap spluttered across the papers of that book.

No wonder there are no women on the internet. You idiots would make them feel terrible.

look up kafka, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., and Jack Kerouac. All of them are better authors than J. K. Rowling or Stephenie Meyer.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

No wonder there are no women on the internet. You idiots would make them feel terrible.

You're a dude?

No, honey. I'm a chick. I just brave some very stupid people on the internet. (Not implying you)

I was quite aware of that. I was just being facetious. But in all seriousness, I must agree that the Twilight hate is getting old. Everything just boils down to "Edward sucks, (*insert vampire name here*) is cooler," "Everyone in Twilight should die," and "Twilight fans are rabid preteen girls."

 

[Radelaide]

No wonder there are no women on the internet. You idiots would make them feel terrible.

You're a dude?

No, honey. I'm a chick. I just brave some very stupid people on the internet. (Not implying you)

I was quite aware of that. I was just being facetious. But in all seriousness, I must agree that the Twilight hate is getting old. Everything just boils down to "Edward sucks, (*insert vampire name here*) is cooler," "Everyone in Twilight should die," and "Twilight fans are rabid preteen girls."

Exactly my point. If you hate Twilight, do us all a favor and ignore it.

 

[gtchamp7]

I also hate Twilight with a passion. I go to an all-guys school, so there's no Twilight fans there, but the all-girls school across the street from us is packed with Twilight fangirls. Literally every girl over there is obsessed with it.

Go to /b/ as well, 'cause about every 2 minutes there is a new "I Hate Twilight" thread.

 

[Liminal Dusk]

(For the sake of perspective, I'm a bisexual male who prefers females. Also, for the simplicity's sake, whenever I say "guys" or "girls" I mean straight ones.)

Out of all the things in Twilight, you're bagging on Edward?

Edward's designed to be a fantasy. He's gorgeous, sparkles and is a hopeless romantic who falls in a love with a plain jane book-reader. And he's undead. Being undead is always sexy. It's the epitome of badassery, which is something almost every girl looks for in her fantasies. (not in boyfriends, fantasies. Important distinction)

He is extremely dreamy. He has amazing beautiful eyes. That's the point. The reason why you (and I at first) get upset when girls fawn over him is jealousy. Just like you hated that really cute guy all the girls obsessed over in middle school.

When I try to explain this to guys, I use pornstars as an analogy. They're designed to be fantasies. Just like Edward, the idea of it is completely retarded. There are extremely few girls out there who geniunely enjoy sex with random strangers, moaning the whole time, trying their best to please the man while doing nothing more than rubbing themselves to pleasure themselves.

I don't dislike the actor when I say this, so ignore that straight off. I don't even DISLIKE the character, mainly because disliking imaginary people is very useless. What I dislike is Meyer's writing. The character IS supposed to be a fantasy, but part of criticism is to criticize based on the knowledge of what the person was trying to convey. I agree that was her goal, but my dislike of it is in that it wasn't a worthwhile character. The entire romance seems overly fantastic and unrealistic, more like a pornographic romance novel than an actual intellectual one. In the real world, relationships don't work like this and then work out. A book crawling with teenage angst should NOT be glorifying the way that Bella handles her relationship(s), and by making a fantasy of a male lead, she has lost any conceivable connection the reader could have to the man, because he's NOT REAL in any sense of the word. Maybe that's the intention of using Vampires, but here I don't believe that either, because of how she implements it in other characters.

To me, it sounds like a teenage girl's vampire fanfic that somehow caught on to novel popularity because of its direct-to-drama storytelling and supernatural overtones. Neither of which is acceptable.

 

[LewsTherin]

I hated Lord of the Rings. I couldn't get past the first chapter because of the utter crap spluttered across the papers of that book.

Why.....*twitch*

*foams at mouth*

/faint

 

[Lunar Shadow]

I would hazard the guess that the amount of venom towards Twilight is so great, that the haters can't let it go, hence the amount of threads. That or the fact that the piece of shit is so popular that it's fucking everywhere and people need to reassure they aren't the only sane person left.

As for the dude above, your avatar is win. If you want a decent fantasy story look up the Legend of Drizzt series, or even Clerics Quintet. Actually fuck it, just read some damn FR books.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I read the plot of this movie on wiki and thought it was alright although I never came it much thought. A friend of mine yesterday asked if I saw the movie and proceeded to tell me how it was awful and she was glad I have not seen it. Yes, you read that correctly, she despised the movie, Edward Cullen and wants to kill every girl that shrieks about how sexy said actor is. She is a vampire buff however she likes the proper stories not these teen flick pathetic films. Gotta love women like this, I say.

 

[Mr. Payne]

Ya and I just hate Twilight all together. A fuck load of girls at my school were reading the books, finished them. Then when the movie came out, another fuck load of girls started reading them, and the ones that finished the books already read them again.

It really pisses me off that bad ass vampires were never as cool as these homo-licious let's stop a car with my hand and no one will notice tards.

At least twilight is spreading literacy among today's youth.

Today's youth is generally moronic, except for the kids who recognize this as shit, and should go back to harry potter (excellent literature) lord of the rings (ver good literature) or even anything written by f*cking George Orwell, or Eugene Zamiatin (probably the best 2 books ever are WE and 1984, written by those authors, not respectively)

*hops aboard good book literacy and enlightenment express* Yeah.. youre right, there are way better books out there that will get thm to think... Like say, Dan Simmons Hyperion/Endemyon books..

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Gods, no. I absolutely despise Twilight, mostly because it's completely trashed the image of vampires. Also, because it's droves of ravenous fangirls have completely decimated RP forums.

At least they haven't attacked here yet. The Escapist may be the last bastion of decency left on the high seas of the internet.

 

[Ursus Astrorum]

Gods, no. I absolutely despise Twilight, mostly because it's completely trashed the image of vampires. Also, because it's droves of ravenous fangirls have completely decimated RP forums.

At least they haven't attacked here yet. The Escapist may be the last bastion of decency left on the high seas of the internet.

Amen, and we will defend it with our lives.

 

[Mr. Payne]

Gods, no. I absolutely despise Twilight, mostly because it's completely trashed the image of vampires. Also, because it's droves of ravenous fangirls have completely decimated RP forums.

At least they haven't attacked here yet. The Escapist may be the last bastion of decency left on the high seas of the internet.

Amen, and we will defend it with our lives.

And i will play double agent on the new age trolls preparing to attack.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Gods, no. I absolutely despise Twilight, mostly because it's completely trashed the image of vampires. Also, because it's droves of ravenous fangirls have completely decimated RP forums.

At least they haven't attacked here yet. The Escapist may be the last bastion of decency left on the high seas of the internet.

Amen, and we will defend it with our lives.

FOR THE ESCAPIST!*draws sword*

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Ever since I saw that poster for the Twilight movie (you know the one I mean) I have been opposed to it.

 

[Bunyip Andler]

I loved the books for TWO reasons.
One: They were written like bad fan fiction and were absolutely delicious.
And Two: Since Harry Potter, they were the best books I'd read.

I hated Lord of the Rings. I couldn't get past the first chapter because of the utter crap spluttered across the papers of that book.

No wonder there are no women on the internet. You idiots would make them feel terrible.

Wow, that's probably one of the most stereotypically posts written by a female with bad taste in books.

How could you call Lord of the Rings utter crap? It's a literary classic. The only reason you enjoyed the book is because of its sexuality. That doesn't make it the best book you've read. Like I said, I wouldn't say my favorite porno is "the best movie I've seen recently". That's just stupid.

 

[Bunyip Andler]

What I dislike is Meyer's writing. The character IS supposed to be a fantasy, but part of criticism is to criticize based on the knowledge of what the person was trying to convey. I agree that was her goal, but my dislike of it is in that it wasn't a worthwhile character. The entire romance seems overly fantastic and unrealistic, more like a pornographic romance novel than an actual intellectual one. In the real world, relationships don't work like this and then work out. A book crawling with teenage angst should NOT be glorifying the way that Bella handles her relationship(s), and by making a fantasy of a male lead, she has lost any conceivable connection the reader could have to the man, because he's NOT REAL in any sense of the word. Maybe that's the intention of using Vampires, but here I don't believe that either, because of how she implements it in other characters.

To me, it sounds like a teenage girl's vampire fanfic that somehow caught on to novel popularity because of its direct-to-drama storytelling and supernatural overtones. Neither of which is acceptable.

Yes, that is a very good point. And I've whole-heartedly agreed with that since I read the beginning of the second book. (It was the only one around when I was bored) She's an author in the loosest sense of the word, and people praising her really don't understand what's going on.

Edit: You can't delete posts? I don't want to double-post. ;_;

 

[LewsTherin]

I would hazard the guess that the amount of venom towards Twilight is so great, that the haters can't let it go, hence the amount of threads. That or the fact that the piece of shit is so popular that it's fucking everywhere and people need to reassure they aren't the only sane person left.

As for the dude above, your avatar is win. If you want a decent fantasy story look up the Legend of Drizzt series, or even Clerics Quintet. Actually fuck it, just read some damn FR books.

I've read all/most of Mr. Salvatore's books, hence the avatar.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I hated Lord of the Rings. I couldn't get past the first chapter because of the utter crap spluttered across the papers of that book.

Why.....*twitch*

*foams at mouth*

/faint

I suppose this isn't a good time to say that I really don't like the Drizzt books is it?