You know I've never been so confused with any other of my fandoms so much as Twilight, usually I can whole-downheartedly _like_ or _not like_ it as it goes around with Twilight however, I feel love-hate, or hate-love, pending my mood.
So this sort of justifies something I already knew.
Edward is evil, Bella is either a non-entity or manipulating them Damon!VD-like, and Jacob is the poor sob trying to be the hero, love the girl, and loath a vampire trying to eat the girl he likes.
And the sad part is, this could have been an amazing series. I think that Meyer was so focused on her end-game, on her final picture, that she forced the characters into roles and events that shouldn't have happened. And really, that, to me, is the biggest crime you can commit as a writer: not letting the characters take you on a journey, but instead wrestling with them until you they do what you want them to.
(Or maybe I'm just taking it out on her because my characters, even the ones I'm only borrowing, never listen to a damn thing I say.)
It's totally fine to babble about this! Bella really does get stuck in that whole, "my first love is my destiny" thing, to the point where Meyer forced the storyline. That's her biggest sin, for me, because it's one thing to write what a character "tells" you to, but it's another thing entirely to sacrifice almost all of your characters to do it (and I mean that as changing the core of the character, not actually killing). I hate that when I say, "I like Jacob," I have to specify that I like him before Meyer completely changed his character. (And don't even get me started on how unhealthy Bella and Edward's relationship is.)
Oh my god, some of the fanfic in this fandom...I really, really wish those people could re-write the Twilight series. You know it's bad when the fanfic is better than the original writing.
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So this sort of justifies something I already knew.
Edward is evil, Bella is either a non-entity or manipulating them Damon!VD-like, and Jacob is the poor sob trying to be the hero, love the girl, and loath a vampire trying to eat the girl he likes.
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And the sad part is, this could have been an amazing series. I think that Meyer was so focused on her end-game, on her final picture, that she forced the characters into roles and events that shouldn't have happened. And really, that, to me, is the biggest crime you can commit as a writer: not letting the characters take you on a journey, but instead wrestling with them until you they do what you want them to.
(Or maybe I'm just taking it out on her because my characters, even the ones I'm only borrowing, never listen to a damn thing I say.)
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It's totally fine to babble about this! Bella really does get stuck in that whole, "my first love is my destiny" thing, to the point where Meyer forced the storyline. That's her biggest sin, for me, because it's one thing to write what a character "tells" you to, but it's another thing entirely to sacrifice almost all of your characters to do it (and I mean that as changing the core of the character, not actually killing). I hate that when I say, "I like Jacob," I have to specify that I like him before Meyer completely changed his character. (And don't even get me started on how unhealthy Bella and Edward's relationship is.)
Oh my god, some of the fanfic in this fandom...I really, really wish those people could re-write the Twilight series. You know it's bad when the fanfic is better than the original writing.
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