General over view: OMFG, Bella is stupid.
I started reading the Twilight’s series by Stephenie Meyer and I can’t decide how I feel about it. On the one hand I’m tearing through it, I’m not a fast reader, but I had the first novel (498 pgs) done in about 12 hours, that’s fast for me. And I’m eating through the second as well.
But I’m having the same trouble with the main character that a lot of people (including me) had with the Harry Potter series, the main character is a self centered, unthinking idiot. I understand people are flawed, but for the love of crap (yes, I know, no one loves crap), can’t these people manage to BEHAVE THEM SELVES AND THINK RATIONALLY?! The writer slips in the characters excuse “love makes you stupid”, and yeah, yeah it does, and I know that. But the character from that point on starts wielding that excuse like a weapon against all rational thought and her own happiness. I find this infuriating.
Most people who read this and know me are right now thinking “You’re one to talk.” And the answer is “Yes, yes I am.”
Meyer plays her up at the beginning as a responsible person, she claims herself as a sensible and driven human being. And then as soon as Edward looks at her she suddenly looses sight of almost everything thing else in her life. School, friends, family, life, and herself. Even proper prespective on the guy shes dating. I don’t know how many times Meyers has her use the words “I’m not hungry.” as her reaction to being upset, personally I almost think thats a crutch for her, writing wise. Anyway. I fully realize that people get strung out like this. I’m all to aware how that can happen. But to see someone go from responsible and intuitive to that is truly disheartening.
Then again, thinking on it, her way of dealing with new people and a new school was to lie to everyone. Hair brained little twit.
Also the difference between the ways we love people is something she potraites in this. As of New Moon, page 436 (where I’m at at this very moment), the line as been drawn between two types of love. The wild and friece “die for you and cry to see your face” kind of love, and the “comfortable, comforting, everyday love”. Let’s get this clear right now. Fire that burns bright and hot, consumes it’s self and dies. A fire that smolders, endures. This is the fire that you warm yourself by, this is the fire that lasts you through the coldest of nights.
Advice for a few select characters that I wish I could give them:
-Harry Potter after the fourth book if not before- get over your self you whinny little snot. Think straight and grow up and you will own the world, whine like a bitch and you’ll camp a lot, I mean a lot. Did I say a lot? No one wants that.
-Everyone over the age of 7 in the Harry Potter series from just about start to finish. The kids life started hard, and you all know it’s probably gonna stay like that. Keep him well informed, set some fucking boundries and teach him to fucking plan better.
-Alexander from the movie “Alexander”. Forget your mother. Do us all a favor and go to some quiet corner of the world, herd goats and fuck your boyfriend and only your boyfriend for the rest of your life (R.I.P. 3 hours of my life I will never get back.)
-And Bella, Bella please. Learn to think through your goodbyes. Telling the boy, “I love you, I really do, but if I let him die like I know he will, I won’t be able to live with my self, I have to try.” is infinately better then “Bye.” Can no one communicate properly!?
-Oh, and bye the way Bella, just date Jacob already. Really, he’s SO much better for you.
Give me Mercedys Lackey, where peoples stupidity only lasts so long as it takes someone else to reach out, smack them across the back of the head and say, “Dumbass. Behave your self!”
