Why I Don't Like The Twilight Series

I've never read the books so can't really comment on them.

I know the movies are the ultimate fantasy for young adolescent girls. When I watched New Moon. It's Edward and Jacob fighting over which one of them gets to love Bella more. That's definitely a fantasy for teenie-bopper girls.

Kristen Stewart is very accessible to young fans in the movies. She wears hardly any make-up. She wears casual clothing, like tennis shoes, plaid buttoned shirts, drives a beat-up red truck and she's cute. She's a girl that girls can relate too.

All the reasons that you guys listed about why the series suck, is totally true.

*clapping*

I for one am extremely interested in the weird questions raised and would love if you would help us out by answering them.

1) Why does Edward choose to go to high school, and how does he continually stay in high school? Does the family move every two years so he can stay in high school? Does he do any homework? and for that matter, does bella?

2) Do they ever explain how his sperm stays alive? I doubt it, cause that's 'gross', but how does it work in the books?

3) And what is the attitude towards Bella's pregnancy? Does she graduate high school before they get married? I assume they marry before she gets pregnant. And what kind of ceremony do they have? How do they plan on the relationship staying together shen she ages and he doesn't?

4) Do they describe the resulting child in any detail?

Pretty sure Depp is alive. So you aren't like... a sicko or anything.

That fan letter about The Wolfman ripping off Twilight was one of the funniest and most disturbing things I've ever read on the internet.

You said to get down with my verbose self so here goes because I have even more to say and encouragement to say it! X-D
I'm going to start with the most recent post and work my way back.
One Thousand Wolves: I'm not trying to be mean here I swear. I honestly can not tell... are you trying to be funny/ironic? I'm not always the best at picking up tone in people's posts.
But in case you are serious I'll let you know that Twilight in no way inspired or had anything to do with the 2010 movie The Wolfman with Benicio Del Toro. That was a remake of the 1941 horror classic The Wolf Man with Lon Chaney Jr. The story, cinematography, even the effects and makeup were updated ideas taken directly from the 1941 version and given zazz.
Also, Twilight isn't horror. How do I know this? Because both the author and the director of the first movie said so. Maybe some people consider it horror but that's never what it was intended to be either in print or on film.
By the way, if you really are waiting for the 4th movie because you think that "eventually Edward beats the shit out of Bela's vagina with his cock" you will be sorely disappointed. A) That doesn't even happen in the book, and B) The director has already said that they won't be showing a sex scene between Edward and Bella, just the usual fade to black and waking up in bed together the next morning. Sorry
ellenXxXzena: I totally get what you mean- I understand why people find vampires sexy in theory, I just never really saw them that way either. And I think I might one-up you on the weird/crazy factor when it comes to fictional character crushes... I seem to have some kind of bad-guy radar. Whenever I'm watching something and I think "oh he's pretty hot" thats the guy who inevitably turns out to be the killer. Not only that, but I seem to find guys much hotter once I've seen them be or do something evil. Like Sayid in Lost; didn't do anything for me until I saw him kill a guy with his feet. Or Sam Winchester; only sexy as Lucifer's meat-suit dressed all in white. And Dr. Lecter? Love him.
I like some good guys too, though most of them have a dark streak. And even my mom has a Johnny Depp poster in her bedroom!
Superheidi: So the Twilight weirdness... Why Edward chooses to repeatedly go to high school really boils down to him being the only member of the Cullen family without a mate.
All of the kids have gone to high school (and college) several times. When vamps want to live around people they can't draw attention to themselves and have to move on before people start noticing they aren't really getting any older. So the younger they claim to be when they get there, the longer they can stay. Edward is the youngest in the sense that he was physically 17 when he was turned so it's easy for him to pass as a junior or senior in HS. The others are older and have a harder time with it so usually start as seniors and go off to "college" (or France or wherever) or sometimes live as newlyweds or young couples on their own. But Edward doesn't have a mate so he stays with Carlisle. Edward was the first vamp Carlisle ever turned and he only did it because he was already dying and his whole family was dead. He saved his mate Esme similarly shortly after that. Why doesn't Edward just go off on his own? Apparently the vamps that want to hold on to their humanity and not kill need contact with like-minded vamps and with real humans in order to do so. Edward tried to go on his own but couldn't stand it, killed people, and came back. So Edward's stuck with Carlisle and Esme either as a HS or college student. He does homework but it's as easy as breathing to him since he's done everything so many times before. Bella does homework and studies for tests and gets decent/good grades most of the time. Edward is very big on making sure she studies and gets into a good college so she could go instead of becoming a vamp like she wants to.
The explanation they give about Edward's sperm staying alive is just that vampires are frozen in the state they are in when they are changed and in order to have a baby a woman's body must change. But a man's body stays the same all of his life- he has no such thing as childbearing years. (Charlie Chaplin was 73 when his youngest son was born) But how would anyone know that vamp sperm worked if only female vamps were the ones having sex? Well no one would. And no one did until Bella gets knocked up!
Bella and Edwards marriage and sexlife were all part of the negotiations for turning Bella into a vamp- something she wanted and he didn't. She wants to be with him forever and is ready at 17 to give everything up and do just that. Plus things keep trying to kill her. In New Moon Edward leaves Bella to try and force her to get over him because he thinks she'd be better off without him.It doesnt work of course and he comes back. He also makes it clear that if/when she dies he plans to kill himself right after, something his family wont tolerate. So Carlisle agrees to turn Bella after she graduates and tells Edward "You've chosen not to live without her, and I will not lose my son." Bella confesses to Edward that she would like him to be the one to turn her. He agrees on one condition: that she marry him first. Bella's parents getting married right out of high school and their painful separation have ingrained in Bella a fear that marriage ruins love/relationships, making Edwards request the one thing she is hesitant to agree to. They go on for a while in that stalemate until Bella decides she also wants to have sex before she's turned. Edward flat out refuses, saying it's too dangerous because of his vampire strength. But Bella begs and pleads and agrees to marry him if he would just try and if it doesn't work then it doesn't work. So Edward reluctantly gives in...but of course they must be married first! It's God's Will. So the summer after graduation they get married at the beautiful and huge Cullen house. It's a traditional ceremony- indoors at around dusk- only instead of "till death do us part" they say "for as long as ye both shall live" Her parents are there, her dad walks her down the isle, it's all so mushy you just wanna puke
Bella gets pregnant on her honeymoon and that pregnancy, the disruption it causes, the childbirth, Bella being turned, and the interactions of everyone with young vampire Bella and her child with Edward pretty much make up the last book. The child becomes a central character so oh yeah you get a description in detail- and the shit gets even weirder AFTER Bella gets pregnant.
Dang...I just go on and on X-D
One last thing: I really like this place too. Not just the actual intelligent discussions with actual intelligent people without judgment but all the content, the email alerts I get, being kept so informed and up to date, the other posters and writers- all of it.

Doesn't Jacob find out his feelings for Bella are actually for her unborn child who is his soul mate?

Yes. Jacob discovers that he's "imprinted" on Bella's child, which is basically the werewolf equivalent of a soulmate. It's not like, sexual though. It's more like she's the center of his universe. So as a baby/child he loves her as much as any parent loves their own child and would do anything for them. Then as she gets older (and he wont because the wolves don't age- convenient eh?) he'll supposedly be the best, most loyal friend and protector she could ever have. And then when she's an adult he will be her perfect match; exactly suited to her in every way and completely devoted to her. It's such a strange concept.
Jacob also pissed me off because of how he acted towards Bella and her daughter after Bella gave birth and became a vamp. Not letting her hold her own baby, getting in the way of a mother bonding with her child and acting all smug about it, and all of this after the complete Hell of a pregnancy Bella went through- with virtually no support and Jacob telling her she was stupid and not strong enough to do it the whole time. As a woman I was pissed on Bella's behalf and I don't even like her!

That sounds like the perfect romantic fantasy for women with an Electra complex.

I've just realized we really need a :rofl: emoticon.

I think it's more like "if a man really loves you, he'll knock you up in High School and hit you to just to show you how much he cares."

What I love about all the responses to the whole Wolfman/Twilight ripoff scandal is how serious people are about their werewolf lore. They're like:

"Everyone KNOWS that werewolves are killed with silver bullets and have a painful transformation that coincides with the phases of the moon blah blah!!"

Um, yes...those are definitely the facts about the mythical, non-existing, monsters. Yup.

And yes, I admit that I have been known to say that the "vampires" in Twilight are not real vampires.

But that is a combination of me expressing my frustration at how completely and utterly lame Ms. Meyer's so-called vamps are and the fact that even she herself said that the creatures she created had almost nothing to do with the traditional vampire concept; she just wanted a supernatural being of some kind. She's never read Dracula or any other vampire novels. She's never seen any vampire movies, though she did say that she started to watch Interview With a Vampire but turned it off because it was "too icky."

She even said Twilight isn't a vampire story/movie- it's a love story that just happens to have vampires in it.

(Which is exactly what I wrote in my review when it came out, only instead of "love story" I put "chick-flick" )

I just can't wait for the last movie to come out and for all the craziness to be over. I'm also grateful that my nieces are too young to read or watch the Twilight series and by the time they are old enough it will be passe. I want my girls to read about women with character traits worth emulating and who aren't so self-absorbed and shallow that their entire world is about choosing between two guys.

That's why on Saturday I gave all my nieces and nephews their first comic book