Okay, so everyone knows how much I hate Twilight, right? Right. Now you might wonder WHY I hate it, resulting in this rant below. :D
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Twilight?. It’s an insult to an aspiring writer like me. Even though I admit I do not write as good as, say, S.D. Perry or Stephen King, I actually know when something is bullshit. And Twilight is on the top of the list.
Twilight in a nutshell:
Bella meets Edward in school. Edward finds her irresistible. He saves her from a car. (which, btw, 50 POINTS FOR ALMOST KILLING THE MARY SUE). Stalks her. Watches her while she sleeps.
The most logical decision for that darn Mary Sue?
Fall in love with Edward. So basically its like a “OMG STAY AWAY FROM ME” to “I LOVE YOU~~” to “LETS BE TOGETHER FOREVER”.
Dumb dumb dumb storyline.
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I know I haven’t read Twilight, or the whole stupid series for that matter, and Twitards would probably bash me “YOU HAVENT READ THE AWSUM BOOK LOL U CANT BASH IT LOLOL” but seriously? Twilight doesn’t even NEED to be read before someone bashes it. TT
Creative? Are you kidding me? Pssh. Girl-falls-in-love-with-mythical-creature-but-cannot. So Beauty and the Beast. Rip-off much?
It is full of thesaurus rape (i.e. abusing the thesaurus to cover up her lack of vocabulary) and not only that, it reeks of purple prose. To be frank, purple prose is well, prose that (no, not purple) is too flowery and ‘bombastic’ for its own good. Big words littered everywhere. Scintillating arms. Incandescent chest. WTF? And that ONLY to describe Edward. Don’t you think that’s a little too much?
Purple prose, in my opinion, should only be used in exams to score (OH CRAP once some English teacher reads this he/she’s gonna penalise me if I use it LOL) unless you’re going for some big international writing competition-esque event thing, but whatever, the point is, Twilight is full of it.
Now, on to the characters.
Bella Swan:
Basically? A Mary Sue. Doesn’t a new girl at school get bullied for a period of time after she transfers? Why does she fit in right away? Why is she so perfect and flawless? (Well, except for her lack of a brain). Plus, why is she described so sparsely? Reason being? Stephenie Meyer (not only shaping Bella after her), designed Bella so that any girl can slip into her position in the story. To fantasise about being in the story itself. Being in love with some perfect vam- I mean fairy, to be loved heavily, to be involved with whatever crap Bella got herself into. TT Uhg. Seriously?
Edward Cullen:
GOD. Whoever said Edward Cullen was a vampire IS ABSOLUTELY BLIND. PLEASE, EVEN I’M MORE SAVAGE THAN HIM. Sparkles? Seriously? What kind of vampire sparkles in the sun? Answer: none. Edward isn’t a vampire. He’s a man-sized fairy. A real vampire would BURN once its skin gets bathed in sunlight. A real vampire would be Anne Rice’s Lestat de Lioncourt. Now THAT is a vampire. Secondly, he has no personality at all. AT ALL. He’s like a limp piece of fairy-meat with a straight face suddenly falling in love with some commoner. Wow. I, I just have no words for that kind of dumbness.
I don’t bother about the rest of the characters. TT
And the continuations?
New Moon: Bella falls in love with an Animorph (note: Jacob Black is not a werewolf because werewolves can only change during a full moon) when Edward is away. Stupidity ensues.
Eclipse: I don’t bother TT
Breaking Dawn: Bella has sex with Edward. Edward literally tears the bed apart while inseminating Bella with his miracle sperm (hello, he’s undead, his sperm shouldn’t even be living -.-). Bella gets pregnant with mutant undead baby. More stupidity ensues.
Yes.
To end off this rant, Twilight the Series sucks. Sucks. SUCKS. Go read something better like Stephen King or Anne Rice or J.K. Rowling or Cornelia Funke, I DON’T KNOW, just stay away from what’s bad for you kay? I’m just afraid some Twitards would take Twilight as their muse and start a writing career from it. The world can never be saved then.
(Self plug, a good writer would be someone like Carolyn or Vivi or I or all the above authors [except SMeyer, duh] I mentioned. K.)
Thank you. You have wasted your life reading this :D