Question about Twilight.
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Bella - "I want you to turn me into a vampire so I can be with you forever."ravensheart18 said:
Because we all know who our true love is at 16 and are ready to start a committed relationship based on a guy who basically stared at you for 1/2 of the book.
I've never seen it that way before... wow thats creepy, kinda makes it sound like Edward is a dirty old man lol.Cliff_m85 said:
Well Twilight stopped my lurking ways and forced me to come out in the open. So, let's get started on this rant.
On the subject of whether it's acceptable to change established mythos, I would say it is perfectly fine to change them to better suit your ideas. However, Meyer went beyond that point. She completely and utterly destroyed the vampire folklore from it's very root. Let's take a closer look at the meaning of "Children of the Night", and what that represents. Usually, night is the time when strange things start happening. It is a well known artistic motif. At night, the supernatural takes center stage, uncertainty replaces the certainty, a completely different world shows itself, with rules that are fundamentally different from our own. Vampires are supernatural creatures belonging to this world and not being able to walk in the daylight pretty much emphasizes this aspect.
And Stephanie Meyer took all the mystery behind vampires and burned it entirely. I'm going to put a small spoiler warning here, because I will be referring to the last book in the series, "New Dawn". Vampires walk in daylight, they go to school, there is a half-assed scientific explanation to their origin, they have their own government (yay, politics!) and to top things off, Edward and Bella have a child together. To quote the fat guy on Two Stupid dogs: Ain't that cute...BUT IT'S WROOOONG!!! To bottom-line it, Meyer took all the interesting parts about vampires and turned them into a big, nasty wet-dream.
On the subject of whether it's acceptable to change established mythos, I would say it is perfectly fine to change them to better suit your ideas. However, Meyer went beyond that point. She completely and utterly destroyed the vampire folklore from it's very root. Let's take a closer look at the meaning of "Children of the Night", and what that represents. Usually, night is the time when strange things start happening. It is a well known artistic motif. At night, the supernatural takes center stage, uncertainty replaces the certainty, a completely different world shows itself, with rules that are fundamentally different from our own. Vampires are supernatural creatures belonging to this world and not being able to walk in the daylight pretty much emphasizes this aspect.
And Stephanie Meyer took all the mystery behind vampires and burned it entirely. I'm going to put a small spoiler warning here, because I will be referring to the last book in the series, "New Dawn". Vampires walk in daylight, they go to school, there is a half-assed scientific explanation to their origin, they have their own government (yay, politics!) and to top things off, Edward and Bella have a child together. To quote the fat guy on Two Stupid dogs: Ain't that cute...BUT IT'S WROOOONG!!! To bottom-line it, Meyer took all the interesting parts about vampires and turned them into a big, nasty wet-dream.
I dont want to sift through 3 pages of twilight bashing to see if anyone actually answered your question. The whole sparlking thing was bad for the vampire because it meant that they couldnt go mingle with normal humans in sunlight without people noticing so it was really just a pain in the neck to the vampires who didnt feed on humansiamq said:
Just thinking out loud here, but isn't making stuff up, y'know, the entire point of writing FICTION?Cid SilverWing said:
So if it's fan fiction, you obviously don't agree with Cid's idea that she made it up on her own.Nmil-ek said:
So I'm gonna be completely honest with all of you, I think it's totally hilarious that even though all of you seem to think twilight is so insignificant, you're spending time out of your no doubt very busy day to point out just how insignificant it is. By talking about how terrible it is and how much you want the series to die, you're just bringing it to the attention of more people and prolonging the life of the fad. Most of the people I know who read twilight did so because they saw a forum thread like this and wanted to know why everyone was making such a big deal out of it.
Oh, and before you call me a hypocrite for posting in a thread I so obviously want to die, I don't want to die, watching the irony of these one-sided flame wars unfold amuses me.
im afraid its to late. When the cancer gets to big, its cut it out or die, and twilight has our women in its maw deep!