Twilight

So... Twilight. My lecture on twilight has been repeated so many times that to try to type it out for this blog would be simply beating an old dead horse. But, having found the video that I'll share in a moment, I will give the summed up version of my feelings about the series...

It is the first book I can recall ever throwing. It is high school drama. I didn't like high school drama when I was in high school, so why on earth would I want to make it a part of my leisure time now? Bella is a typical teenage girl, and so is Edward. The funny thing is that so many girls I know think they are in love with Edward. The truth, however, is that - when you look at how Edward acts - we all know guys who act very similarly (minus the vampire teeth and sucking deer blood) and girls don't like them. The whole "I don't have a life of my own so I'll follow you everywhere and stare at you without an intelligent thought in my head and sneak into your bedroom to watch you sleep and cause drama in your life... etc" attitude just doesn't make for a great boyfriend. You can try to phrase it all nice and pretty, and the girls might think it sounds nice, but in practice it amounts to the same thing. Yes, being sensitive might make you a better boyfriend. But when a girl says she wants a sensitive boyfriend, she means that she wants a guy who is still a guy but sensitive to her as well (I shall save the rest of that particular rant for another day).

I could lecture on Twilight for a while, but the truth is that what really really irks me about the series, the thing that makes me the maddest, is that when you take out all the gunk - the chapters upon chapters of self pity and young love - there is actually a somewhat interesting plot. The story in itself I like - it isn't groundbreaking by any means, but I would enjoy it. I would enjoy it - if all the gunk was left out. "Inside of every novel is a wonderful short story just dying to get out" someone once told me, and it is - in my personal opinion - very true about the Twilight series.

So without further ado, another video for you to enjoy...



Sean