Bill Compton, on the other hand, is a civil war veteran whom is tryign to cope with a past he’s not proud of, and the loss of a family that is still near and dear to his heart at the hands of some tawdry vampire harlot who was too self-centered to care about his life or his feelings. Seeing Bill confront that woman and finally have the courage to tell her off seemed more real to me than most other vampire lore since Interview. We get to see a part of Bill that still clings to his humanity. You don’t see that with Edward. With Sookie being a Fae, Bill has a chance to be human again, or at least see the light of day without bursting into flames.

I’m not too thrilled with how MEyer chose to leave out an entire plethora of possible races and occult belief structures with her books and the films.

True Blood introduced us to a new sort of series, where Fae, Vampires, Werewolves, Werecats, and Human demi-gods are as realistic as it can get. I like how the series blurrs the lines between all of these fantastic realms of reality and illusion. Twilight just lacks any real appeal for me.

And I couldn’t figure it out either. Her primary personality traits appear to be clumsiness, insecurity and lack of any instincts for self-preservation.

While reading Twilight, I kept wanting to talk back to the book. No, vampires don’t sparkle. They don’t play baseball. They don’t get excited about the prom, unless it’s to feed. Who is Stephenie Meyer to pull the fangs out of hundreds of years of vampire myths?

Ugh. Part of the mystique and sexiness of vampires are that they not like us. They may be able to go from here to there in a flash, but it’s not because they are really good runners. They are magical beings, straddling the line between life and death. They’re not hawt.

But what drives me absolutely NUTS about Twilight is how it shamelessly rips off The Southern Vampire Mysteries on which True Blood was based (and which came out years before Twilight). In both series, one main character can read minds of everyone EXCEPT the other main character, which leads to them getting together. One character is a vampire, one is human. Seriously…this is just shameless.

I could go on and on here. There’s just so much wrong with Twilight. How exactly have the Cullens managed in Forks, never aging? I guess the Cullen kids just repeat senior year endlessly, and no one really notices. And I’m sorry…Edward lives off of mountain lions? That is just freaking wrong.

It’s so depressing to me that this is a best seller. I think I’m going to go write a book about really bright zombies who’ve learned to eat jelly molds instead of brains and smell like roses.

–Max

1) LOVED the article, I agree whole-heartedly with all of it.

2) Sparkles…COME ON! I seriously said this, out loud, in the theater (never read the books so I didn’t “know” before hand)…it was one of THE most ridiculous things I’ve ever seen from a “vampire” flick and as an avid paranormal/horror fan..that’s saying a lot.

3) True Blood takes a slight departure from the books (which I love and have read all of them) but keeps the overall feeling and is deep and has way more character dimension than Twilight, which barely scratched the surface of what a human/vamp would even act like. It was like watching puppets.

I mean, Bella is so devoid of feeling, shes like a zombie most of the movie and the acting..don’t get me started. But who knows someone for a week and is all I LOVE YOU and is ready to give everything up for them. It was melodramatic to the extreme..almost the entire movie (Edward shows his sparkly side and it tries to be all suspenseful) I mean..seriously? L A M E

I could go on and on but, its all been said above Granted, Twilight is basically for kids and True Blood is for adults, but Harry Potter is aimed at “kids” too and those are some great movies *though the books are better*

Mel
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