COMMENTS from the CROWD - Love me or Hate me
Update 1/6/12
I'm not known for brevity in writing
(obviously), so I added the blog summary at the top for those of you who just can't get through this.
The reason for this "update" is because 1) I've moved the long "
About Me/Who Am I" ramble at the beginning of this post into its own post, for those of you who may be interested; and 2) I think I've discovered "points" that may help the conversation become more reasonable for us.
I know I can get "hot" sometimes toward my Twilight sisters
(yes, I am currently working on trying to shorten this down and make it "more readable" for you), but it really is NOT my intention to "be mean" - I'm just trying to poke at you and get your attention so we can talk - because I started out trying to be nice and it wasn't working, ha!
Some of you are probably mad at me about "how" you got in here - many of you are coming in through comment posts tagged onto various articles out there. I'm just tacking this onto whatever *I'm* interested in reading. I figure that's where all my Twilight sisters will be hanging out, too. I didn't start out doing that... People were coming by before that because I also have a couple of press releases and an article out there
(literally thousands of eyes - in the double-digits - have crossed this story).
I TRIED to start out "doing this right". If you'll all start talking to me in a civilized manner in here, I'll let up out there.
(civilized manner, meaning your OLD tired, heated, ridiculous arguments that you've PREVIOUSLY made are all already recorded in with the LONG list of evidence along the side - we can ALL SEE Twilight for what it is, now - NO MORE "excusing" it!) ;>
Some comments are starting to happen at the end of this, and one of them should probably be up here at the top. PLEASE keep reading. I KNOW I'm semi-crazy,
but I'm not in this case for some dumb reason - I really wish I was; I'm sure it would have made accepting Twilight SO much easier, ha!
Posted as a Comment Response by me: I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons you're not taking this very seriously is because of the fact that *I* have not read the books - frankly, I'm afraid to, ha!
(I REALLY am!)
However, I've read quite alot through bits and pieces of them - especially where the baby is concerned.
AND... This was just another ONE of my many clues about all of this... I DID read through the first 5 chapters of the original Twilight book during my "anxiously reading over the book jackets moments" - I read those before I picked up the next 3 books and discovered the flaw.
After I read those first few chapters, my VERY first thought was, "what a smooth read, this is going to be
easy". THIS thought is significant for me, because I have SUCH a hard time reading through an entire book these days because I've allowed my head to become SO screwed up. I have almost NO attention span!
My second thought was, "Wow, I read through 5 chapters and I didn't hardly notice - STEPHENIE MEYER MUST BE GOOD!"
Also
(inserting another partial comment response by me) I really do not think that the movies are NEARLY as addictive as the books are. I doubt that nearly as many people have become addicted through the movies. Its just that *I* (and probably alot of young girls who are in the same boat as I was at that age - there are
unfortunately no shortages of girls like me out there still today) am so incredibly susceptible to falling under the spell of stuff like this.
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Original Post 12/27
Last night, I was updating my “
NUTHIN But LOVE for Our Twilight Character Actors” post, and I noticed that the link to the video I had originally put up was broken (it was a link to a photoshoot of the cast). So, I ventured back out into Internetland to find another appropriate video that would seem as equally-celebratory.
And I stumbled across everyone’s favorite Twilight fan videos up on YouTube… You probably know who I’m talking about. The wildly-crazed young girl from the UK who seriously CANNOT contain herself regarding all things Twilight!
I’ve only ever watched her once before a few weeks ago. It was a video where her and her little friend were camping out in line at the Breaking Dawn UK premiere. They were SO cute and adorable in their excitement. But, I was just coming across that video about the time I was starting to figure all this silly stuff out about Twilight – so I felt both thrilled and sad (and envious) for them at the same time. I hadn't thought much else about her since then…
But the original Twilight movie was my
favorite Twilight movie, and every single person who I have had discussions with about the Twilight Saga agrees with me on that. While that may not be true for “book fans”, most of the women I’ve talked to have NOT read the Twilight books (with one exception, and she was Team Jacob - THAT was a fun conversation!) – so, I’m pretty confident with that assessment on behalf of us “movie fans”.
I came across this girl’s video of her reaction to the
original Twilight movie as the trailer was first coming out online – and its just so FUN! She’s SO innocent and raw in her passion and excitement about Twilight, and she’s just so beautiful and contagious about it; I will admit that I was ALMOST beginning to wonder if I was doing the right thing about trying to bring people to alter their perception about this subject.
And after I watched her video for the fifth time, I think (
as it brought all those warm, thrilling memories from the movie back, and why and how much I loved it)... I noticed another video down the page from her titled, “im getting really sick of the breaking dawn haters!!!” And I was really curious about what
she had to say - the most brilliant Twilight Fan star out there – especially since I’m not getting any feedback from anyone in here. I was pretty sure she was going to lay it on me (and she does)!
And while I watched her chew all of us Twilight Breaking Dawn haters out, one thing that she says in here really struck me… About halfway through, she starts talking at her friends – apparently, some of them were not as thrilled as she was about the ending of Breaking Dawn either; and she’s trying really hard to convince us all how brilliant Stephenie Meyer is and how ungrateful the rest of us are.
"... the storyline wasn't what I expected..."
Watch it... It almost sounds to me like she
could have been as heartbroken as some of the rest of us were about how this story turned out. But, she's too obsessed and addicted to even consider that something might be wrong with her beautiful fairytale.
I wonder how many original Twilight book fans might have been (or are) really just as disappointed as I am deep inside; but are just unable to admit it - still.
I know its a hard hill to climb to get from there to here
(GOD, don't I know it); but it can be done - and I PROMISE, you don't have to grow-all-up and become Ms. Responsible Adult when you get here; only when you're on stage. ; >
I really wish I could feel about this story the same way she does and all the rest of you do, but I just can't -
I tried for months, I REALLY did. I'm sorry.
Here is a link on YouTube of her very first Twilight movie trailer reaction in 2008. Watch her, she's US - she's JUST like us inside;
except before our lives became so vicariously jaded - young and new and raw and passionate, and pure in her joy and fascination with Twilight!
She's SO beautiful!
And now watch her chewing out us mean Breaking Dawn people... How convinced are you at the end of this, what do you really think? I think she has a broken Twilight heart inside. I would have
LOVED to have seen her reaction to a well-told version of this beautiful story. Wouldn't you?
(btw, she's mad, expect some explicit language.)
In this day and age of corporate greed and manipulation... Are you SURE you weren't jipped by the author of Twilight by the Breaking Dawn storyline?
If You're at All as Curious
as I am About "How Twilight Fans Thought
Breaking Dawn was Going to End" Before it was Published
CLICK HERE
STILL Don't BELIEVE Me? In case you missed it at the top of my blog, here's my latest post on this subject:
Watch This HEARTBREAKING Video by an Ex-Twihard
As far as I'm concerned, this and the links along the side all you need if you're a Twilight book fan from the way back. If you're relatively new to this discussion as I am, you might want to continue reading.
But this is not something that necessarily needs to be taken in all in at once - you can come back to it, or just pick through it. I know there's alot here.
What can I say, I'm obsessed about coming out of my Twilight obsession; and I guess I don't really have any intention of leaving you all entirely submerged in this hazardous waste whether you like it or not. And while I realize that "not everyone needs/wants to be rescued" -
there are obviously a WHOLE hell of alot of you who do, or at least you need help getting a little dislodged!
You have no idea how sad I am about all of this - I almost wish I was crazy. It really wasn't my intention to completely debunk Twilight when I began writing this blog; I was just trying to "get people to see reason" from my own silly, selfish fantasy-vantage point.
But I am now SO much angrier than I was when I began, at not only Summit Entertainment for making the Twilight movies like this; but the book company - Little, Brown and Company for publishing these books "as is". I would LOVE to have a conversation with the person/people who are responsible for allowing Twilight to be published in such an irresponsible way.
- WHY?!!
WERE any of you head-honchos at the book publishing company actually qualified to judge characters and storylines, or even capable of recommending writing edits to the author of Twilight?
Did any of you have college literary degrees that included some sort of slant toward adolescent education or development - in order for you to be in charge of making decisions about what your company puts out here for young adolescent girls?
Or, did you simply pair your new, sparkling, up-and-coming amateur author with an amateur editor because that person was supposedly "good enough" to judge "highest quality" literature for young girls? I mean, here's what readers see on the opening page of your website:
Little, Brown and Company’s books and authors. One of the country’s oldest and most distinguished publishing houses, Little, Brown is committed to publishing fiction of the highest quality and non-fiction of lasting significance, by many of America’s finest writers.
I'm just going to leave all this up and watch it smolder while everyone thinks about it, and until enough people stumble across it and read it. I can't take it down, this is all too disturbing...
You'll find a poll at the bottom of this post... Please at least READ THROUGH the SIDE LINKS BEFORE you respond. You can keep your fantasy, I'm NOT even SORT of asking you to let go of it. *I* would have held onto mine if I could have, and I DID try for months! But I have no intention of wasting all the time I did on this silly "saga" for nothing...
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The easiest way to go through this blog (if you're interested in reading thru my ENTIRE story) is to START HERE with the 1st post at the beginning and read through all four original posts as they were posted - because I think there is alot of revelation in just reading/watching how my disturbing realizations about the Twilight storyline came to me - especially since I really wasn't planning to discover all the things I ended up uncovering about Twilight.
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ABOUT the POLL BELOW:
I moved this poll down here to the bottom of the blog, because it was too tempting for a quick pick - especially for Twi-hards. (and it still is apparently, ha!)
It would be really nice to "keep all this in the family" - We Twilight fans can work together on this or not - its up to you. But this subject now deals with things that go beyond our own silly, selfish inner-fantasy lives; and its time for us to go back to being grown-ups again for a little while.
It ISN'T fair if you just vote your opinion without reading through the case I've made. If you don't have time now, come back to it when you can. We're all on our Twilight Honor...
BTW, if you choose poll option #2 and don't take the time to give a
rational explanation in here; we're all just going to assume that *you* are an addicted Twilight fan who can't deal with any of this right now. Most of you have been addicted to Twilight alot longer than I have, so its kind of to be expected, I suppose. Coming out of an addiction like this - even partially - is a painstakingly slow, agonizing process (it took me months); and I'm not expecting any thanks. In fact, your life will only get harder - like mine has. But at least you'll be able to see yourself and so will everybody else. I guess that's important...
If anyone feels as strongly as I do about this subject, I've made it easy for us all to collectively raise our voices loud enough for Little, Brown & Summit to hear us by creating a CALL of ACTION thru an Online PETITION. Check it out, please pass it around I'd LOVE to see this go VIRAL - and THANKS!
For the record, I've split this blog with another blog that I have going because it was getting too long and they are both really about two different Twilight subjects - So, this poll (below) is brand new as of 12/24/11.
In case you're curious, this is how the numbers were stacking up before I "re-started" it.
8 (22%) - YES - I Read the Book(s), and I've always thought so
14 (38%) - NO - All of the Twilight Saga story is Just Fine the Way it is
0 (0%) - YES - I'm Not a Fan, But I've Always Wondered About Twilight.
2 (5%) - NO - I Know There's Something Wrong with Twilight, But...
12 (33%) - YES - I Never Used to Think So, But I Do, Now
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