Question about Twilight.
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With something more overpowered. In this case, Werewolves.Skeleon said:
They can run faster than vampires and their teeth is the only thing that can cut a vampire's skin and bone. I don't know if they retain the vulnerabilities of the werewolves of lore.
I think it just gets bad when people say (mainly younger fangirls/boy) that its the best series ever. I dont like the series cause of that, and also I like the traditional vampire. Reading bram stoker's Dracula and then trying to even get into twilight just turned me off. Another good vampire book is Salems Lot by Stephen King. Excellent vampire book.
Vampires are, when you get right down to it, supernatural creatures. They have supernatural strengths (such as longevity, super strength etc) but they also have supernatural weaknesses (such as garlic and holy water). That's what they are.
Sure, you can deviate the from the whole 'must kill and drink blood' thing. Terry Pratchett for example managed it very well with his neurotic, desperately trying to fit in vampires. But they had the weaknesses as well. They at least kept some characteristics that made them vampires.
The vampires in Twilight don't, and haven't. They have all of the strengths, and none (NONE) of the weaknesses. They're no longer vampires - they're essentially demigods. Mary Sues. How can you characterize well something like that? The answer is: you can't.
Edit: A little more on the characteristics front. Imagine if I said 'I'm going to write a story about unicorns. But they're not horses, don't have horns, and they're not appealing to girls'. You'd think I'd gone mad. And yet here we see this insane book written by an insane Mormon. If you want to write about something, fine. If you want to alter it a little bit to make it more unique to your books, fine. But don't try to pass a duck off as a chicken.
Sure, you can deviate the from the whole 'must kill and drink blood' thing. Terry Pratchett for example managed it very well with his neurotic, desperately trying to fit in vampires. But they had the weaknesses as well. They at least kept some characteristics that made them vampires.
The vampires in Twilight don't, and haven't. They have all of the strengths, and none (NONE) of the weaknesses. They're no longer vampires - they're essentially demigods. Mary Sues. How can you characterize well something like that? The answer is: you can't.
Edit: A little more on the characteristics front. Imagine if I said 'I'm going to write a story about unicorns. But they're not horses, don't have horns, and they're not appealing to girls'. You'd think I'd gone mad. And yet here we see this insane book written by an insane Mormon. If you want to write about something, fine. If you want to alter it a little bit to make it more unique to your books, fine. But don't try to pass a duck off as a chicken.
Vampires don't sparkle. Stephanie Meyer either failed to research vampire lore, made up lore for herself, or both.
Or they live in the town of Retardsavania where corpses have neck bites and people assume a bear sucked the blood out rather than the whitest kids who don't come to school on sunny days and don't eat the school lunch even though they continuously buy them.generic gamer said:
Yes, I have a question.
why does Twilight... eh. what is the word... exist?
See i was thinking about it. Most powerful evil entities must be destroyed by finding the heart of it. In this case, the heart of these terrible books success is the teenage girls who read them. So by that reasoning, i believe that to truly defeat Twilight, we must round up and exterminate teenage girls.... wait...
why does Twilight... eh. what is the word... exist?
See i was thinking about it. Most powerful evil entities must be destroyed by finding the heart of it. In this case, the heart of these terrible books success is the teenage girls who read them. So by that reasoning, i believe that to truly defeat Twilight, we must round up and exterminate teenage girls.... wait...
Also, unless vampire in question is a top-tier elite or somehow has believable protection, it BURNS from exposure to sunlight. In many cases it often combusts and turns into ashes.