Twilight-mania... what gives?Follow

Edited, Nov 3rd 2009 11:37pm by TirithRR

It's because every pre-teen, tween, & teen girl in America has read the books & wants to get hammered by Edward Cullen.

Why?

Because he sparkles.

I'd imagine it's much the same thing that caused a lot of us back when I was a stupid kid to get into the Anne Rice book craze.

Nah, Lestat was just ******* cool & bad ***. Well, before Tales of the Body Thief. That book was ghey.

(Memnoch the Devil was cool, again, though)

I read them (GF had 'em) & they sucked. Granted, I'm aware I'm not the target audience, but to build up an entire series to one pivotal fight & have them Spoiler talk it out was just cruel.

But, I read this thing that got leaked online where the author of the Twilight series (Stephanie Myers) wrote the first book from Edward's perspective & it was actually pretty cool. The fact that he's Spoilertelepathic is almost glossed over, as the books are from Bella's perspective.Spoiler & he can't read her mind. His telepathy is pretty much always on, so while it was from his perspective it was also a pseudo-omniscient perspective as well.

But she got PMS over the fact it was leaked & like a little girl decided she wasn't going to do it anymore.

*****.

Her other book, The Host (GF also bought), wasn't horrible.

It's true about the sparkles.

I was watching the movie (I carelessly stumbled across it at the video store, read the cover and figured it would be a decent vampire movie) when Edward says they don't go into the light, because it shows their true form. He takes that chick through the forest into the sunny patch and I was like "Hells yeah, we're gonna see black smoke, red eyes, membraned wings of awesome and fangs" and then he starts to sparkle. I think I lost a lot of respect for the movie there. So vampires don't go into the sun because it reveals their final form of... glitter? Ooh, scary.

As for Anne Rice, I enjoyed the Vampire movie and loved the Mummy novel. The latter wasn't exactly "teenage romance," though. Unless teenage romance involves a smoking hot resurrected Cleopatra to have sex with you and then snap your back like a twig afterwards. In which case Species, I imagine, would have quite an audience as well. Tongue action!

Thinking back, it's true that the Twilight story caters to a lot of young females. Even more so in the sequel where that native guy gets a haircut and turns out to be a wolfie, rawr. Vampires vs. Lycan-- woops, werewolves. Yeah, original.

Funny thing is, my sister has read the books and watched the movie and she's normally very, um, sane when it comes to judging pretty boys. I was discussing the movie with her and I told her how I didn't get the mania going on. The actor portraying Edward wasn't even that good-looking (I can say stuff like that without questioning my sexuality, by the way). She just dropped her jaw on the floor and told me he was such a "hunk" and dark and handsome. I was like, girl, look at his face. No, look at his face when it doesn't sparkle! Yeah, he's like 10% of the handsome seen in any teenage movie these days. Yes, he's tall and has that dark gothic /wrist thing going on, but seriously, he's not hot.

She couldn't follow me. It was then I realized that the mania had claimed yet another victim. A girl who will never again be normal until she nails that sparkly vampire guy who can't be with her but won't leave her alone.

Bleah.

Some of us still hold out hope for humanity?

Only question is: Will the werewolf sparkle?

Yeah, but Anne Rice can write.

Wow...how have I lived so many years amongst Harry Potter fans and fic'cers without ever having caught a whiff of this phenomenon? It hurts, and yet...I...can't...stop....

It totally was. I think thats why it was my favorite.

Edited, Nov 4th 2009 11:05pm by Dyadem

Just wait until he discovers the drinking game that goes along with it. :D

"My Immortal" has nothing on "Artemis's Lover." That fanfic was so bad, my husband printed out a copy and slapped a UN warning label on it saying it violated the Geneva convention.