Dagon wrote:know that vampire lore traditionally or at least since Stoker makes the vampire into a pretty attractive and mysteriously sensual being, and that Anne Rice really drives that point home, but do all of our vampires really need to be pansies? Twilight may have the badest assed vampires of all time, but from commericals they look like wussies. I know the vampire experiences centuries of the existential crisis of being alone and never being able to experience human love without cursing the one they love to the same life-in-death state of living dead, but must they really be such cry babies?
From what I understand that is one of the themes of Twilight with what's his name (Edward?) not wanting to turn some girl into a vampire, but dudes, really, sounds too whiney for my tastes.
If you'll excuse me for being Edward a moment, I want to tell you you need to find and play the old PSX game Blood Omen (if you haven't yet), but feel deep internal conflict knowing that it will set you down a destructive path of sequels that will break your heart (some for different reasons than others), as well as the dark eldritch knowledge that once you've gone Kain, you can never go back. You will search eternally for other vampires that measure up to his greatness, while each new book, comic, and game you try will futher convince you of the cold fact there are none. Alas and woe, and most importantly,
VAE VICTUS!...Ahem. Well, as it stands, my own personal eternally fruitless search for vampires I like as much as Kain compelled me to read Twilight. It's difficult to classify exactly how I feel about it. If you asked me whether or not I liked it, I'd say yes without hesitation- I mean, I bought all four books, three of them hardcover- and yet I also agree with a lot of the criticism levelled against it. Action scenes
are too often given secondhand. Many aspects of the plot
have been done before (the rescued-from-thugs scene, vampires and werewolves are eternal enemies, good vampiers eat animals and bad vampires eat humans, etc). And love stories have never been my thing.
However, where Twilight really shines, where it's really brought to life, is in the small details; Bella's beater truck and racin' motorcycle, the dreary atmosphere of Forks, "conversations" between Bella and her dad. It comes together into something that is a lot of fun and is rather hard to put down. The whole idea of a "frozen beach party" with everyone in coats and hats delighted me, and is probably still my favorite scene. I really like Rosalie, who is just my type of vampire (sometimes I think the only reason she's a "vegetarian" is because she feels indebted to Dr. Cullen), and the Volturi were intriguing (this is one case in which the 'secondhand' storytelling made a lot of sense; it helps the Volturi keep their mystery and creepiness when the vampires whisper to one another about them).
I didn't know about a stolen Edward-POV novel, though. That's interesting!
(...but dude, srsly. Blood Omen.
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(Anne Rice fans will know what I'm talking about)
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