Holy Christ on a fucking cracker, the Twilight series is the worst thing ever. I know that in the past I have ragged on literary snobs because of my love of genre lit, but this Twilight schlock is simply indefensible. Even my taste in fiction is not this piss poor. The main character is a Mary Sue. She is literally nothing more than an empty shell into which the reader is supposed to insert herself. And all the vampires having their own unique power? That's the hat technique. The author can't be bothered to actually create compelling characters, so instead she gives each character a different hat. It's horrible, lazy writing. Ok, so I only watched the movies. And even copious amounts of alcohol and the MST3K treatment didn't make it better.
And why do the immortal undead with super powers repeat high school over and over and over and over? And American Indian wifebeating werewolves. Really? Really?
6.02.2010
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Indeed. Joss Whedon she's not. That and the whole thing is one big abstinence metaphor.
I haven't read Twilight, nor can I say I've had any desire to. My cousin Bethany does, though -- she LOVES it. It's pretty much the only thing she reads, and that makes me sad.
I've only read the Twitterature version of the books, myself.
The big problem with Twilight is the stereotypical gender roles. Manly men (or creatures, whatever) fighting over the girl (the prize), who pines away pitifully because her boyfriend left her. Every girl wants this, nobody ever gets this because it's not reality, and the whole Price Charming thing is perpetuated. Unimaginitive, boring.
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