Twilight
So, I read Twilight. At no point did I throw it across the room. I even enjoyed it, in an OMG kind of way, and I definitely want to read the rest of the series. But I think what I enjoyed most was then reading the comments and recaps of cleolinda, which made me laugh until I cried.
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If you've seen the Cleolinda recaps I take it you've also seen Growing Up Cullen? Some of it will spoil later stuff but it's mostly a series of IM conversations where Edward acts like a prissy, angsty, spoiled brat and Emmett and sometimes Jasper make fun of him. It is awesome.
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The first one is by far the best written (such as it is)
Only problems I found were Buffy/Angel brooding flashbacks (although there each was dangerous to the other, it wasn't so one-sided) and Bella's Mary Sue-ing ("I think I'm nothing special and a real klutz but every human male is attracted to me and the most beautiful man/vampire on the world thinks I'm wonderful, tra la la").
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I actually have the same thing with Twilight that I did with Buffy and Angel. I just don't care about the central romance/character other than to mock it (Particularly Bella and Buffy rather than Edward and Angel). But i kinda love the central characters enough that i want to read it for them. Without Emmett and Alice in particular i'm pretty sure I wouldn't have bothered with the whole series.
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Oh, I got sucked in and teary about Buffy/Angel - but I adored the intra-show mocking, like Giles' description of their relationship as both poetic and maudlin, and Cordelia and Wesley's acting out of the Buffy/Angel reunion for Fred and Gunn.
There just wasn't enough intra-book mocking of Bella/Edward!
No, i don't think it's bigheaded to think that i'm as handsome as Cedric!"
Yeah, Robert Pattinson's a nice guy but he is not godlike, at least not as far as I can see. I wonder who Meyer had in mind when she described Edward, because she really set herself up for the film not living up to the book with all the descriptions of Edward's marble body, and so on, ad naueseum.
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I think he's cute but i wouldn't say he's the most godlike, sparkly Adonis that's portrayed in the book. I'm not sure who I would've cast though. The thing I like about Robert Pattinson is how bemused he is by the whole situation. He's called his own character psychotic and stupid and then said similar stuff about Bella.
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Yes, and I read the interview where he says he played Edward as self-hating and the transcript where he suggests that this is all the author's fantasy and it's a little embarrassing reading it. Amen, brother!
I'm not sure who I would've cast though.
As a SPN fan I have to say a young Jensen Ackles.
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