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Logic's Insight: Twilight Introduction

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Anyone ever met someone who they had a bad feeling about from the start? Maybe they didn't put themselves out in the open as often, seemed like nice people and looked legitimately trustworthy. Even then, they just seemed like someone you could have a good time with. But you had a bad feeling about this person that only grew the more you hung out with them. Eventually you see them for the manipulative jerk that they really are and see signs that they'll cause trouble. But you look around to see that many of your friends don't see what you see until...the person does something.

That would be the best way to sum up the Twilight Saga. While at first glance, it appears to be a teenage love story about a girl who falls in love with a vampire despite the obvious danger. Good or bad, the premise isn't terrible in itself, in short, it's a nice set up for a decent read. Unfortunately, Twilight is much...much...worse...

There is a three word phrase that I can use to sum up my feelings for this series: POS. The reason I'm using an ancronym is because I've decided to decrease the amount of curse words used and so I can use them more sparingly for the stuff about this series that REALLY ticks me off. My point is that Twilight has become akin to what some called the Prequel saga. But while the prequels were only base breakers and haven't really damaged the Star Wars legacy beyond repair, I cannot say the same for Twilight. Just like the Bible is still around after thousands of years, Twilight is unfortunately going to remain a stain on human intelligence. An immortal written shrine to humanity's potential for literary genocide by tainting an otherwise reputable genre of books for generations to come.

And if you think I hate Twilight because it's a love story, then I would kindly disagree. True, I'm more of a character/story fan myself. In a way, it's really not hard to entertain me when it comes to movies, books, comics, anime, manga, video games, plays or etc. If I can find a character or a story point that I like, then I'll enjoy the overall product, even if it's only a mediocre product at worst.

The reason I hate Twilight is because it fails in what it presents itself as. The second big reason is that despite how it fails, I am constantly baffled at how well the books sell and the box office results for the movies. Even critics didn't like the movies, but people went to watch them anyway...this series has just as much fans as the Harry Potter series when it probably doesn't deserve more than a 1/20th (I'm being kind here) of what Harry Potter had.

It's the equivalent of people electing the Joker as president and considering him one of the greatest leaders that the country has ever had.  Even though all he does is gas major cities with laughing gas, most of his legislation involves some sort of lethal joke at the citizen's expense, and the economy was sabotaged because he kept blowing up or wrecking every vehicle that America has.

So you might be asking my friends...why do I hate Twilight? I can break it down into four main reasons that have nothing to do with my personal taste in entertainment. These reasons really center around how Twilight fails in the area that it's supposed to be in.

Here they are and I'll be expanding on them through this retrospective review:

1) The main characters

2) The Relationship development and dynamics

3) The Story

4) Everything else!

But it's not going to matter in the end, because this series has made it's author, Stephanie Meyer, rich beyond what some think she deserves. It has a fanbase somehow...people actually paid money to buy books beyond the first one...they cosplay as characters from this series...people see the main characters as ideal boyfriends/girlfriends...it's just...

Someone throw me a bone here, if you have any insight that you'd like to share then please do. Until next time my friends.
The intro for a full four part review of twilight and why it fundamentally fails as what it presents itself as.

Done in sort of a style that mixes the methods of the Spoonyone, Redlettermedia, Nostalgia Critic and Confused Matthew. Because all four are funny and pretty good in their own respects, even if I don't always agree with what they say.

That said, anyone reading this is completely free to disagree with my opinion or my points. Any Twilight fan reading this should not take personal offense to what I might say here. You may have a perfectly valid reason for liking Twilight, that's your choice.

Consider me a Devil's Advocate whose asking why it's so popular.

Part 1: [link]

Part 2: [link]

Part 3: [link]

Part 4: [link]
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I admire you for analyzing such a terrible series in detail. It is a challenge in itself, I'll tell you that. :salute: Good luck.

You say that we can offer you insight. I can give you general information about the writing (analytically speaking) and the author's concept behind it, also as to why Meyer in my opinion fails as a writer.