is it even worth mentioning?
I haven’t been watching Twilight, or the second movie, as I’ve learned that nothing but pretty images could be seen in those Saga-called crap, but I received a very interesting video on youtube, of a guy reviewing the first movie and it made me laugh, and pretty much agree with what he was saying.
Then, I watched a video of a young girl, who was also ranting about the books Mayer wrote, wondering why some people liked the books, and even thought of the them as good writing, which I have been wondering myself, because nor the writing or the story are good, and logic in those books does not exist even in the slightest. And then I remembered myself as a child [in-between seven and fourteen years old] and how I adored impossible love stories in shows and movies [for example: Xena and Ares (Xena: the Warrior Princess), Buffy and Spike (Buffy: the Vampire Slayer), et cetera], and even though, we know that they love each other, getting further into their relationship and putting them in an official couple would have ruined all the interest in the show – it would have become winy and shallow, but when I was watching those shows, I really wanted them to be together, and I suppose that I would have watched a show only based on their love, because I loved them myself and I believed they belonged to each other. Now, what Mayer did was exactly like it: she took two characters, who normally shouldn’t be in love, and put them together; they are bound to one another, for some reason, and that idea, of an impossible love story being held by all the means is what the girls like in those books. At that point, they don’t even care if Bella is a Mary Sue or not, or if Edward if weird and freaky; they see a love story and that makes their heart melt, because in the books, Mayer described, with all the words from the dictionary possible, that those two are meant to be together.
Problem is: WE. DON’T. KNOW. WHY.[!]
She doesn’t say it, she doesn’t explain…and frankly – I think she doesn’t know herself. All she wanted was two characters who love each other; how they got there – it isn’t her problem.
The biggest mistake she made in her books, except making her Vampires sparkle, was that she didn’t explain the characters and she didn’t write at all how Bella got to love Edward, and vice versa.
[ BELLA’s VIEW ] He is hot, we got it. Apollo like, as she wrote soooooooo [x 12] many times: hard chest, beautiful face, soft skin, amazing breathe [which is completely unnecessary for the description], let’s add in: expensive car and all the girls from the school want him badly. Overall: Nothing. Notice also that the author did not write anything of precise about how his face looks like, and I exactly know why, as it was not a simple mistake; it was planned on purpose. She wrote that he was hot, and so, as no further description was seen in the book, all the girls who read it imagine their perfect boy next door as the Edward in question. He has millions of faces, but I wouldn’t have known how to imagine him if I haven’t seen the movie first. For me: Robert was always popping in my head, how everyone read the books and imagined him without seeing the movie that is a big fat question.
[ EDWARD’s VIEW ]This is more simple, truth to be told: he is 100-and something years old, he never dated and he needed love and attention. Suddenly, he notices a human, who smells like puddin’ and the cherry on the top of the cake is: he cannot say what she is thinking. For someone who can read minds all the time – it’s a big turn on. He watches over her, saves her life and feels her heart beat; she is more like a puppy to him than a girlfriend. In his case, the normal thing to do would be to let her stay human and have his fun with her, because, once she turns a vampire – he wouldn’t be able to play with her as he used to. But then, I guess, he really wanted to get laid. Then comes the second book, and I’m confused.
[ BIGGEST MISTAKES OF THE BOOKS ]
I. Edward enters Bella’s room without her knowing it and watches her sleep. Freaking – yes, but that is not the problem: those Cullens are rare specimens: they feed on bears, but what of the other Vampires who drink human blood? Are you telling me that they can enter a human’s house without an invitation? Humans would have been all dead by the beginning of the first book, then, because I don’t think that there are no Vampires who like a little fun play with some humans in their own house. That also makes mo wonder why Victoria, the woman who hates Bella’s guts, did not avenge her mate by killing everyone Bella knew [her friends mostly, and dear daddy]. She can enter houses without an invitation after all.
II. Mythology died. They sparkle in the sun. I believe that if they didn’t sparkle, this book would have much more fans [or at least, less haters], because this little fact made all the real fans of vampires to dislike the books and the author. And that also makes me wonder about religious matters: vampires are creatures of the night for a reason; they are demons, in some point, toothy bastards. Sun is their enemy – they fear it; if it wasn’t for the sun – humanity would have been killed by those monsters. What happens with that? I’ve read many times of this version: the sun burns them, because the sun is the weapon of the God. [Not Apollo, in this case].
Another question about the sun: the rays of this big firing ball touch the earth every day, and yet, they do not sparkle every day. They walk normally, and not even the top of their heads has any glittering on it. What’s with that? Does she think that sun affects us only when there are no clouds at all?
[ FANS OF THE BOOKS/ MOVIES ]
I have nothing against them. Hell, I know many people who love the movies or the books, and those people are not stupid at all, but when I ask them why they love it so much, they have all pretty much the same answer: 1. Robert is hot. 2. Their love is cute. 3. I’ve never read the books, but the movie was cool.
People who really understand it must fill me in, because those answers cannot make me look at the overall with an understanding face.
