ντροπή για τη λογοτεχνία (κακογραμμένο, πλοκή δημοτικού, λοβοτομημένοι χαρακτήρες)
ντροπή για τον κινηματογράφο (ατάλαντοι ΚΑΙ άσχημοι πρωταγωνιστές κι ας λυσσάνε όλες, αδιάφορο, παγερό και πέταμα χρόνου)
ειλικρινά δεν μπορώ να καταλάβω πώς μπορεί μια κοπέλα να ταυτιστεί με την Βδella, ένα ηλίθιο, άβουλο ζώον και να θεωρεί τον Εδουάρδο Κούλεν τον τέλειο άντρα, ο οποίος είναι ένας stalker και οι αντιλήψεις του για τις ανθρώπινες σχέσεις είναι τόσων ετών όσο και ο ίδιος: αιώνων (και -μη- χειρότερες).
για να μην αναφερθώ στους υπόλοιπους χαρακήρες...
ένα δείγμα του ηλιθιώδους βλέπετε παρακάτω, courtesy of londondrowning (my bolds and reds):
One of the fairly huge points in Eclipse is werewolf mating habits. Jacob, the werewolf, explains to Bella that werewolves do not fall in love like normal people. Instead, when they meet the woman they are meant for (not man, I guess, so apparently there are no gay werewolves in this universe. Sorry, Remus Lupin.) something called "imprinting" happens. They see the woman they are meant for and they instantly fall completely, totally, hormonally, mentally, unwaveringly, and irrevocably in love with her. (All those adjectives are my personal homage to Stephanie Meyers, with Edward's "scintillating bare arms" and cupcake breath and whatnot.)
There were two examples of this given - Sam, the werewolf leader, and his girlfriend Emily. Sam used to date Emily's cousin, Leah, but when he met Emily and imprinted, he immediately abandoned Leah for her, and while Emily didn't want to hurt Leah, she was helpless to resist. Emily is also horribly scarred and savagely beaten, because a couple of times when Sam was in his werewolf form, he injured her. He feels absolutely terrible about this, but Emily loves him so much and he loves her in return, so they decide it's not a problem that while in his wolf form, he shredded half her face to the point of unrecognizeablity. "Occupational hazard of dating a werewolf" is pretty much how Jacob writes it off.
Then Jacon explains to Bella that one of his packmates has recently imprinted. On a girl who currently happens to be five years old. Bella is horrified at this, and Jacob explains that it's totally cool: his buddy is just going to wait for her to grow up, and in the meantime "she'll be really well protected and grow up with a big brother always looking out for her and when she's a teenager, she'll love him in return."
Bella asks what happens if she doesn't love him in return - for that matter, if it was so hard for Emily to betray Leah, her best friend and cousin, did she take up with Sam? Jacob's explanation basically boils down to: "When the guy loves you with that much steadfast and unwavering devotion and is always there for you, how can you possibly not grow to love him back?" Bella's response is fairly typical for her idiot self, since she doesn't realize that she's dating a mentally abusive control freak vampire: "Oh, yeah, that totes makes sense!"
When I read this, really the only thing I could do was sit there and go "............................"
To recap: Emily loves Sam so much that it's okay with her that he has, more than once, beaten the living shit out of her. They are often called 'the perfect couple', there is special focus made of the fact that they're sweet and tender and gentle with each other and how super great it is that she likes to make pancakes for the whole wolfpack. Leaving aside the fact that he has beaten the living shit out of her because he loved her too much for her to be able to resist him.
This is viewed as super romantic to Stephanie Meyers and her legion of fans? This is what love looks like? I mean, goddamn. You can make all the "oh, when he's in his WOLF FORM, it's DIFFERENT, it's NOT REALLY HIM, it's SWEET that she loves him so much!" arguments that you want, but that really doesn't change the fact that he has scarred half of her face up to the point where Harvey Dent would look and her and go "CHRIST, WOMAN!!!!"
And aside from that: another werewolf is going to lay in wait for a five year old to turn sixteen so that when he's twenty eight, he can take her to the fucking prom? He's going to basically stalk her and 'watch over her' her whole life until she's of an appropriate age to be his mate?
So here is perhaps what I found most offensive about this entire concept. Even more than the BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF thing. Because the guy is STEADFASTLY UNWAVERINGLY in love with you, cares for you, wants you, and is always there for you, you always automatically end up returning that love? You do not have a choice but to return it? There has really not ever been one single case of the woman going "I'm sorry, Wolfy, but I have this boyfriend who I really love and am really happy with and who does not use my face as a chew toy once a month"? If a guy stalks you and loves you, you love him back even withthe knowledge that there is a huge possibility that he'll frequently become physically violent on you just because? As Jacob said "How could you possibly not?"
So in other words, how dare you deny the man who loves you the thing he wants - namely, yourself? You can resist as long as you want to, but in the end, despite what you may have thought, despite the fact that you may want something else for your life, despite the fact that you don't want to hurt your cousin and best friend, despite the fact that you're five years old and you have, literally, your entire life ahead of you to make up your mind about all sorts of things, hey. The man decided he wants you. That's the ball game.
The entire presentation of this stuff offends the hell out of me. And this really is an issue where I should not be standing alone. These are books that young kids, with a particularly strong fanbase of young women, are reading, and while I'm not one for censoring what kids read, if you're going to be writing about stuff like this, then for the love of God, can she have some self awareness about what it is she's writing and then take five minutes to at least consider whether the message it's sending is the message that she is trying to convey?
Because if it is, fine, that's her prerogative, but somehow, I really do not think the intention was to sit down and write about abuse and controlling stalkeresque men and removing women's choices entirely from the equation. I don't think that's at all what she was going for, but that's what she ended up with, I don't think people are realizing that is what she's written, and to me, that's what makes it a problem.
απόψεις δικές σας.
τέλος, δεν έχω κάτι με τους/τις φανς του TL, αλλά ειλικρινά, υπάρχουν πολύ καλύτερα πράγματα να δείτε/διαβάσετε εκεί εξώ, από όλες τις απόψεις. μέχρι και από άποψη imaginary/ηθοποιών γκόμενων δλδ Cheezus
p.s.: ας ορθογραφήσει κάποιος τον τίτλο πλιξ.
βρυκολακας σε λυκειο... 
θα είχε νόημα να έμενε από απουσίες, αλλά αυτοί βγαίνουν και στο φως...ο Έλληνας Κούλης πάντως θα ήταν του νυχτερινού 
) επιτρέψτε μου να είμαι σκεπτική με όλα τα υπόλοιπα...
