I used to be a sucker for romantic stories, but lately, they have done nothing but aggravate me. I swear there was a time were children were precious and love was wonderful, and then during my angry teenage-angst days, they were like little devils roaming the earth. Well, my current mindset is no different than my senior high days at the moment.
Children = spawn
Romance = society-imposed delusion
Dating = a means to reveal how bleak the future is when all the potential partners out there are nothing, but creeps
Love = nonexistent
True Love = a figment of our imaginations
Yeah, sad, but what-ev.
Anyway, that's not my point. Well, it's part of my point. I'm just pretty adverse to anything "romance"-related lately and this does not exclude the Twilight series. It truly is a teenager's book 'cause nothing about that series appeals to me. One has to love mawkishness and sap to really enjoy it. I mean, most of the book is about the notion of a "true love" that transcends time, space, and form. I really wish I could like the story, but I can't.
Usually, a character like Bella is not bad at all. Especially if you are a teenager like I was whom grew up with little self-esteem and can't believe it whenever something really great happens. If you are like that, you can totally see it from Bella's point of view and grow to think from her perspective too... except... I can't help, but think that teenagers are pretty stupid when it comes to love =_=;
I keep telling myself that Bella's only a teenager, of course she's going to act irrationally at times and be really dumb when the love of her life leaves her, but it doesn't soften the irritation I have towards her character throughout all of New Moon. Towards the end of Twilight, it was still somewhat understandable given that she thought her mother was in danger, but then for her to become all suicidal once Edward left her was a little too much for me.
Yeah, when we were teenagers and the guy or girl we really liked left us, we pretty much felt that dying was a good way to go, but now that I'm older, it's hard for me to sympathize with her anymore. And on top of that, I just find her very stupid. I really want to like Bella, but I can't stand her. I usually really like main girl characters in stories. For instance, where lots of people hate Rinoa Heartilly from Final Fantasy VIII, I don't find anything wrong with her. Honda Tohru from Fruits Baskets is another one that I like even if a lot of angry teenagers hate her. An undying trend of girl fans towards certain series around me tend to really hate the main girl(s), but I've never really disliked any of them until now. I've finally found a series where I just cannot stand the main girl at all. I like her in the movie when Kristen Stewart played her, but when I was reading her in the novel, I, for some reason just can't stand her =_=
The way she thinks, the way she acts, the way she treats her friends is appalling to me at times. When she gets all depressed, and then tries to use Jessica to get her dad to get off her back, and then trying to approach some inappropriate people, it's too much. Even if the love of your life leaves you, it's no excuse to mistreat your friends. I so don't blame Jessica for getting all anti-Bella in the book. Lauren, I can say that I don't like 'cause she's the typical girl that gets all psyched out and shows her claws early 'cause she can't handle a little competition. Jessica isn't really my favorite character either 'cause she's kind of insensitive and self-centered at times, but I don't blame her for not wanting to be Bella's friend later 'cause Bella was just really acting stupid.
And why in the world do these women always go back to the original man!? I guess it wouldn't mean anything if she ended up with Jacob, but I just wish there's a series where the heroine could just choose the second leading man rather than the first. I'm so tired of this overdone formula. In life, the number one rule is: Don't go back to a man who left you regardless of the reason. And if you're going to return back to him anyway, don't lead someone else on =_= (O-M-G). Yeah, I really don't care that Jacob ends up with her daughter later, I just wish things would work out in a more interesting fashion is all. *sigh* Then again, it wouldn't be fun without a little drama and little triangle here and there.
Anyway, I just wanted to rant about how much I dislike Twilight. Maybe it's because I lack any love or romance in my life, but I can't really empathize or sympathize with Bella for New Moon. That book literally made it really difficult for me to even pick up Eclipse. The storyline's not exactly all that well-written so I really don't understand the hype to it.
I mean in Twilight, Bella meets Edward, and they fall in love and she gets to know him better. Then suddenly these three bad vampires show up and one starts hunting Bella. It felt so out there and random... I didn't even feel like I had time to wrap it all around my head. The movie seemed to have done this part much better, at least you knew that there was danger coming and so there was some anticipation. Sure, there was a preface in the book and all, but seriously? It was like "Oh yay, life is going well somewhat. BAM!!! Here are some bad guys! Let's try and make this climax interesting so I can move on!" That's what the plot looked like to me in a nutshell. Very boring.
Then in New Moon, all I could remember was Edward leaving, Bella getting all depressed and suicidal, leading young Jacob on, and then when Edward thought that Bella died, he tried to get himself killed, and at the end they got engaged. Most of the book seemed to be of Bella trying to kill herself, and yes after reading multiple unsuccesful suicide attempts, you really wish she could just succeed once to end both of your miseries ... sad to say.
Despite how much I loathe reading the series, it doesn't change that I'm somewhat interested in the movie. There are times when an adaptation is better than the original. While I can't say that the Twilight movie was all that great -- it was really and painfully slow at some parts -- there were some things I preferred over what I read in the book. So I'm curious as to how the movie will be.
Still haven't read Eclipse yet. It's been a challenge trying to even pick it up after how much I hated New Moon =_= The whole Victoria thing just didn't seem all too urgent or interesting to me so I can't seem to make it any further than maybe fifteen pages. The only reason why I'm even reading it is because my friend told me that it gets better and I'm a fairly patient person so I'm interested to see exactly how it will get "better." I'll eventually pick it up again, but for now... I'm feeling very adverse to the series.
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