Twilight- Awesome Saga or Corrupting Fantasy is Disguise?

[Shadowfax]

*checks* my brain's still intact.

[Shennifer]

*checks* my brain's still intact.

for now.

I'm kidding, but I do think Twilight should be avoided.

[Steehl]

Twilight is only encouraging the lustful, obsessive, stalking, and psychopathic tendencies in teenage girls who are already ditsy and boy-crazy enough to act them out. (put plainly)

[AIO Psyche]

Twilight is only encouraging the lustful, obsessive, stalking, and psychopathic tendencies in teenage girls who are already ditsy and boy-crazy enough to act them out. (put plainly)

Good grief.......I kinda feel sorry for the future children of a lot of members here......

People read too much into things today.

[Caswin]

Twilight is only encouraging the lustful, obsessive, stalking, and psychopathic tendencies in teenage girls who are already ditsy and boy-crazy enough to act them out. (put plainly)

..."psychopathic"?

[jelly]

Twilight is only encouraging the lustful, obsessive, stalking, and psychopathic tendencies in teenage girls who are already ditsy and boy-crazy enough to act them out. (put plainly)

Good grief.......I kinda feel sorry for the future children of a lot of members here......

People read too much into things today.

I like the smiley you put at the end. Nice touch.

[ric]

Twilight is only encouraging the lustful, obsessive, stalking, and psychopathic tendencies in teenage girls who are already ditsy and boy-crazy enough to act them out. (put plainly)

Good grief.......I kinda feel sorry for the future children of a lot of members here......

People read too much into things today.

Well, if they all had children now, I feel sorry for them too. But they'll grow out of it. Hopefully.

[jasonjannajerryjohn]

Twilight is only encouraging the lustful, obsessive, stalking, and psychopathic tendencies in teenage girls who are already ditsy and boy-crazy enough to act them out. (put plainly)

Says a thirteen year old male who probably knows next to nothing about girls. That's more true of boys. Sorry, but biologically that's the way we are. Except very few people are generally psychopathic.

Honestly, Twilight is hard to watch. It's depressing, I felt myself oppressed by it. Of course, this same feeling could be applied to Harry Potter, which I love. The story line, though, was utterly hard to sit through. I'm going to site spoilers here as examples so:

In the movie New Moon, the Volterie, the quasi-head of the vampires, leads tour groups into their layer in Italy to feed upon them. When I saw this in the movie, needless to say I was incredibly depressed and had to take a bit of time to recover. Also, in the movie, Eclipse, one vampire builds an army of vampires for the sole purpose of getting revenge. The Cullens grant asylum to one of the younger vampires in the army, but the Volterie don't let her live. Again, it took me a bit of time to recover.

Given the examples I cited above, I have some major problems, from a moral standpoint, saying that these movies are good for people. The examples I gave don't even begin to talk about the insanely depressing plot of the main movie. I would not recommend it.

Also, from an artistic standpoint, the stories really aren't that good anyway. The plot is droll and predictable and the main characters are extremely two dimensional. Minor characters like Jasper and Carlile have more personality than Bella, Edward, and Jacob.

[Steve]

Twilight is just lame from any standpoint. Don't waste money on something that is going to be old news in two years.

[Lee]

Agreed. This fad will pass... just like Justin Bieber will... hopefully.

[Steve]

Oh, please let Justin Beiber's voice change!! He's almost as bad as Twilight and Hannah Montana combined!

Of course, Hannah Montana quit

[Lee]

Thats what I mean. HM was huge last year and now you dont see that stuff around as much. Thats where Justin Bieber will be next year.

[Termite]

Guys, in two years the last movie will be released in June. You're going to have to be a bit more patient.

[jelly]

I don't even care about Twilight, yet I find the conversation in this topic is disturbing.

[jasonjannajerryjohn]

How so?

[UNCLEBITTLES]

Thats what I mean. HM was huge last year and now you dont see that stuff around as much. Thats where Justin Bieber will be next year.

That's because Miley went down the deep end and Disney isn't going to film her show or anything anymore, if you want to go in to more detail PM me cause we're getting off topic.

[jelly]

How so?

Ignorance. People think that hatin' on Twilight or JB or whatever makes them cool. That prophesying how it will all be dead in a year makes them more intelligent then the fans.

The thing about Twilight is that it's not actually Twilight that people think is disgusting... it's the fan obsession that is disgusting. I get that. Sure there may be some pretty hardcore fans that obsess and scream, and it IS disgusting... but that doesn't mean that all fans obsess and scream. Some people may just think the books are decent and enjoy them. But in a world of two extremes, they might feel like idiots for being lumped into the same category as the screaming fan girls; which is exactly what the haters (e.g., people who probably don't even know anything about Twilight) do to anyone who's not also a hater.

I used a lot of extremes, but you get what I'm saying.


also...

Thats what I mean. HM was huge last year and now you dont see that stuff around as much. Thats where Justin Bieber will be next year.

That's because Miley went down the deep end and Disney isn't going to film her show or anything anymore, if you want to go in to more detail PM me cause we're getting off topic.

...no.

[The Kings Daughter]

I have not read the books nor watched the movies, and I most definitely never intend to. I'm already disgusted with it looking at the 'romance' (romance would be a slight way of talking about it) posters all around fast food places and stores.

[jasonjannajerryjohn]

How so?

The thing about Twilight is that it's not actually Twilight that people think is disgusting... it's the fan obsession that is disgusting. I get that. Sure there may be some pretty hardcore fans that obsess and scream, and it IS disgusting... but that doesn't mean that all fans obsess and scream. Some people may just think the books are decent and enjoy them. But in a world of two extremes, they might feel like idiots for being lumped into the same category as the screaming fan girls; which is exactly what the haters (e.g., people who probably don't even know anything about Twilight) do to anyone who's not also a hater.

I would say that the stories are disgusting, but I wouldn't hate on it. I respect it, as art, and I use that term loosely.

Also, the fandom is ridiculous, that's true.

[Caswin]

Also, the fandom is ridiculous, that's true.

Some of the fandom. The loud, obsessive "EDWAAAARD HAPPY PERFECT BEAUTIFUL LOVE" ones (who admittedly make up a larger ratio than in most fandoms; there are reasons for that) tend to drown out the more restrained ones. (Yes, they do exist; I'm related to one.)

Personally, I'm more concerned about the overall depiction of "love" in Twilight, which unfortunately also happens to be just the right kind to stoke the fires of fanatical admiration and praise. The "vampires" involved, in all their beautiful, sparkly, creepy, predatory glory, are just icing on the cake.