888Em-chan888 said:
Alright, I honestly don't understand what people see in sparkley "vampires." Vampires are strong, fast, BURNS UP in the sun, blood sucking creatures. Stephanie Meyer has portrayed them as gentle and fun and people loving fairies. I'm serious. Only fairies SPARKLE. Well, Fairies and pixies. but they're pretty much the same thing. Now, I get that Ms.Meyer is Trying to protray her sexual fantasy onto the main character Bella, but couldn't she at least make the fairies more vampire like? She calls them vampires but she doesn't portray them as so. Does any one agree with me?
Yeah, Stephanie Meyer may have turned vampires into fairies, but keep in mind that the only reason we can say that is because Disney ruined fairies in a similar way around the time they released Peter Pan (Contrast Old-School Fairies: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFairFolk).
Concepts of mythical creatures will be continuously updated for modern times as people get bored with, or sick of, or just lose interest in the old portrayals. Take Zombies, for example; movies like 28 Days Later did zombies in a completely different way than they had been done previously. Some people like the new style, some people don't.
For a less fantastic example of this kind of shift, think about Batman, and how he was portrayed in the early comic books. Compare his portrayal in The Dark Knight. Completely different, and yet not really any worse. Of course, I can say this because the movies Batman Begins and The Dark Knight were actually good, and thus we get to the crux of the matter.
Let's get one thing straight here people; the Twilight books are bad because they are very poorly written, nothing more, nothing less. Just because she brought it across so badly doesn't necessarily mean that Meyer's portrayal of vampires doesn't have it's own merits.
Nevertheless, you are always entitled to your opinion and personal preference. Personally, my favorite type of Vampire will always be the kind that considers men to be nothing more than miserable piles of secrets, if you catch my drift.
