The in-universe reason is that Bella is actually ridiculously gorgeous. It’s never flatout said by any of the characters, but the description of Bella’s appearance includes words like “tall,” “thin,” “perfect skin,” etc, etc.
No, but my personal theory is that there’s simply nothing there to read.
And doesn’t her blood smell really, really delicious or something?
As stupid as it sounds out of context, that’s one of the best vampirey things Meyer does. In-universe, there will occasionally be a person throughout history that is a perfect meal for a vampire. To every other vampire, you’re just another walking bag of blood, but to one vampire, you’re a gourmet seven-course meal with a naked and willing [insert celebrity of your choice here] at the end.
A different writer who doesn’t care about teen romance could probably make a really awesome story out of that.
Maybe Julia Roberts could make the movie.
Eat Prey Love…
hate the books (what little I could force myself to read). hate what I’ve seen of the movies (not much admittedly). have to be familiar with them since I work in a high school with teenage girls who should have gotten over crap like this but haven’t.
The opening post could have been written by me. My eternal questions about this shitty series - My does Edward care about Bella? Why should I care about Bella? and if the damn vampire baby was gonna be such a problem why didn’t they use BIRTH CONTROL???
I’ve never read the books, but a good friend has made me tag along with her to see each of the movies (which aren’t totally awful-- in fact, they start ridiculous, but this last one truly isn’t bad. It’s not great either, but it’s certainly not bad. Good fluff pop movie).
Anywho, the way it has been explained to me is that Bella is just a special human. The reason this came up is that I was complaining, after seeing the last movie, that it’s so ridiculous that this girl had to give up her entire family and life just to be with this guy-- I mean, now that she, too, is a vampire, she certainly can’t go around her family. “Au contraire,” my friend (who has read all the books) said. She then went on to explain that in the book, it explains that Bella was a very super special human (that’s why Edward can’t read her thoughts) and as such, she’s a very super special vampire, too. So, when she does turn into a vampire, she takes to it with much greater ease than anyone else does.
This is one of the most telling signs that the character of Bella is a Mary Sue. She’s naturally awesome at everything, everyone loves her (with perhaps a few haters who are jealous of her) and she gets every single thing she wants.
I’m sure someone somewhere along the line asked the author about Bella being wish fulfillment for her, and she denied it… every author denies it.
Ain’t just a river in Egypt.
Because Stephanie Meyer wouldn’t use birth control. And because she doesn’t recognise a mind-controlling parasitoid when she writes one.
Personally, I’d argue in favour of more drastic forms of birth control.
Because nobody thought a dead vampire could impregnate a human. They address all that in the movie, so I’m sure they do in the book, too.
thanks guys for the answer to my vampire-baby question. another question - did they have a Christian wedding ceremony for the vampire & vampire-to-be?
They weren’t married in a church-- it was out in the Cullen backyard. Here’s a video with their vows- just standard stuff.
You say Mary Sue, I say every protagonist ever.
Now stop making me defend Twilight.
No, a Mary Sue (esp the Twilight Mary Sue) is different from other protagonists in that she is so very blank as an individual. What would she have studied if she hadn’t met Edward? What would her career path have been? We can’t imagine for her as for other protagonists because she’s so damn blah, er empty.
What career path? She’s a high schooler. But I’m pretty sure the book mentioned she planned to go to college to study literature (she’s always talking about old books she reads).
She’s actually described as short in the book, and wishes that she were a tall, tan, blonde instead of a short, pale brunette. I don’t remember if it’s specified that she has “perfect” skin, just that she’s pale. (Kind of odd given her constant whining about how much she loves the sun and how terrible it is that she voluntarily moved to a rainy region.) It was my impression that she was meant to be taken as girl-next-door pretty and not a budding supermodel or anything. She says that guys at her old school weren’t interested in her.
I love this. Even SkyMall magazine has a better plot than Twilight.
I use to have a link about Twilight is Mormon Propoganda and it was extremely well written and funny. I can’t find it.
I wouldn’t count on it. I read an interview with Meyer once where she claimed she’s never read a book about vampires, or seen a vampire movie all the way through.
Am I being whooshed, or are you actually arguing that there are no books out there with protagonists who are incompetent, unpopular, or unsuccessful?