Twilight-mania... what gives?Follow

Spike.

Belkira seems to be in a flaming mood today =O.

;P

Hehe, it was mostly taking it in context with your post in the Glee thread. I wasn't blaming you for anything, just making an (albeit incorrect) observation. Sorry =P

I wasn't cursing AT you specifically. And certainly not because you touched a nerve. I just thought it was amusing that you seemed bent out of shape over a tshirt being hypocritical. I'll admit, after reading your post in the Glee thread and then the one here, it did seem like you were in a nasty mood of some sort.

Before I even knew wtf the series was about, a friend told me to read them. I think I got 3 or 4 pages in to it on Amazon's "look inside the book" feature before I wanted to smash something. The writing is a JOKE and everything I've heard about the plot line is too.

Same thing with the Sookie Stackhouse books. I love True Blood--I really, really enjoy watching it. But the books were so terribly written that I want to claw my eyes out.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, can make me want to read a book that is written in first person about a ditzy, young woman/girl set in the modern era. I would rather claw out my eyes.

But, at least the SS books manage to do something right. The story sucks, but at least the mythical creatures are interesting and DANGEROUS. I'm sorry, but vampires shouldn't sparkle. Sun + Vampire = Death.

As for the Harry Potter books--I love them. They were a big part of my childhood. Sure, the writing isn't phenomenal, but it's acceptable for what it is. One thing I always loved was the fact that the content grew darker and more adult as Harry did. Though this does pose the dilemma of when it is okay to introduce them to my niece. :P

The biggest complaint I have against them is that all of the books tend to use the subject of a sentence way too much. "Harry did this. Harry did that. Harry went outside. Harry went inside. /Paragraph." It annoyed the hell out of me sometimes.

Nah, if I wanted to seem cool I would have pretended that I actually knew a damn thing about the Buffy series and gone to Wikipedia and read a summary or something. If I hurt your feelings for cursing, well, I don't know what to tell you. My radar probably is off today, didn't sleep much last night.

Saw the first Twilight movie with my little sister one day when nothing else was going at the cinema. One thing we both really liked was the muted and understated colouration of the whole movie compared to most Hollywood teen movies, that come across as hyper-coloured and full of plastic people. The Twilight schoolchildren seemed refreshingly real by comparison, sensibly and realistically clothed, and there seemed to be a really solid cast of new young actors among them all.

To all of you posters who disparage the good looks of Edward (or Jake) I bet you are all straight men. OF COURSE you can't see why girls and women of all ages are going weak-kneed over them. You're straight. Edward and Jake's visual signals don't register on your hormonal buttons. You are just going to have to trust that beauty is real beauty in the eye of the beholder.

I'm not interested in reading the books. I've been told the writing isn't very good, and I'm put off by stories that the author is Mormon, and her religion has strongly influenced her story writing. Apparently she has said that a theme of the books is a message to teenagers of restraint over sex, over "not doing it". I gather that Edward resisting making a Bella a vampire is part of that "not doing it" theme.

I was surprised by the whole sparkle thing in the movie, it's so far from vampire cannon, but I was enjoying too many other things about the movie to be bothered by it too much. It wasn't a surprise that later I also read that the author didn't know about much vampire cannon - not even about them having special eye-teeth fangs. So her vampires had strong crushing jaws that opened up blood to drink with the entire set of teeth. She had some vampire basics: blood drinkers, immortal, can make more of themselves, strong and heightened senses. But she had been exposed to so little vampire media that there was a heap she left out without feeling a need to explain away as human myths about vampires, plus of course the notorious sparklies, which seemed as good as any for sun-phobia, since she didn't know about the whole flaming death thing.

I too love True Blood, the Sookie Stackhouse books, the Anita Blake books, especially 1-9, and I highly recommend the TV series Being Human, which also breaks the sunlight-vampire cannon, but has the most darling gorgeous Ghost-Vampire-Warewolf friendship threesome. Yum. Even with hokey werewolf effects Being Human has great plotting.

It's his whole face. It's just all over gorgeous. Eyes, mouth and cheekbones especially delicious.

Also, I'm not a fan of muscles. I like my males whose bodies suggest that they might be intellectual... slightly slender looking, rather than buff or outdoorsy. Attraction-wise, I personally preferred Jake in the first movie to the second movie.

Oh, I get why woman find them attractive. What I don't get is how it's somehow acceptable for a women literally twice the age of these guys to get all weak kneed and silly over them, when if a man, with a similar age gap, did the same thing over one of the girls in the movie they'd be called a pervert.

Really...?

They could've picked a much more attractive Edward, in my opinion. And Esme and Rosaline should've been much prettier, at least according to the book. Rosaline was supposed to be gorgeous.

I was tickled when I realized that Carlisle was the idiot doctor from Nurse Jackie.

Woman here.

The abs in the picture linked above were very nice, but I checked them out on IMDB and the faces do nothing for me. Meh.

Depends on the exercise.

Yeah, I have to agree with Ari. I do enjoy looking at guys that look like Mr. Muscle boy there, but I would probably not be interested in being in a relationship with someone that looked like that. For one, most guys who are that gorgeous tend to be jerks in my experience, and probably wouldn't give me the time of day. But mostly it's because I doubt we'd have much in common as I'm not all that outdoorsy. I much prefer to play video games, watch movies, or read than to go hiking or play sports.

Oh and I'd much rather drool over someone like Zachary Quinto.

Edited, Apr 25th 2010 1:30am by PigtailsOfDoom