The Problem with Twilight

All of you have by now heard or read one or all of the books in the Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer. And some of you by now have probably seen the movie.

And some of you will agree with me when I say I can't fucking stand the book or the author or Bella; the heroine in the book; if you can call her that. She is so not heroine material.

My problem with twilight is very simple.

During no time throughout this series am I given reason to believe that Bella is worth all of this trouble. Never once. I don't even believe in her as a person or character or heroine. There is not one redeeming quality about her. No maturity. No selflessness. No heroics. No beauty. No charm. No class. No upbringing. Nothing.

There is nothing about her worth writing about.

She is flat. I mean even Jessica the shallow sidekick had more to her than Bella did. At least there was a reason to relate to her.

I could not figure out where or why or how Edward made that leap into loving her so entirely and overwhelmingly.

Even with the first chapters of the re-write of Twilight from Edward's point of view, I still can't see it.

Seriously.

Even Cinderella, who couldn't have been more flatter, had a redeeming quality. She wasn't insecure. She worked hard for her money so to speak. And she was beautiful enough to take the breath away from Prince Charming.

Whereas Bella has absolutely nothing going for her.

No ambition. No struggle to make the reward of falling in love with Edward worth reading about and appreciating from her point of view. Sure she cooks the odd meal for her dad but at the first sign of trouble takes off without telling him where or when or how and expects to be treated like an adult and given the freedom to choose her 'boyfriends'.

The book and series itself are fantasy yes but even fantasy has reasoning and logic behind it.

The Cullens and the beauty and perfection of them and Edward is the only reason anyone reads these books. Cuz secretly every woman wants someone as perfect as Edward to love and adore her and go that extra mile for her.

So why on earth couldn't have Stephanie Meyer made Bella slightly more believable. Just a tiny bit. Just enough to make me believe that Edward has found his equal.

Just give me one good reason why this perfect vampire should love Bella.

She's a loner. Slightly manic depressive from what I can tell. Can't decide what she wants to do. She starts off as an outstanding student transferring over to the new school but we quickly realize there's nothing outstanding about her. No extracirricular activities. Flirts and takes advantage of her feminine wiles to get information from an unsuspecting teenager to serve her own purposes. Dull. Insecure. A clutz without any grace. Abhors fashion and clothing and needs human minutes to compose herself. As if. Please. That one killed me when I read it. Made my blood boil. Can't stop herself from kissing him and wanting him and pushing him - cocktease - (sorry had to say it) - and he's portrated as the gentleman that wants to wait. AS IF AS IF AS IF AS IF.

Like if I knew this hot just about perfect guy and I knew he was going to watch me sleep. I would not sleep. Hell I wouldn't go to bed. And I sure as hell would not go to bed looking like an idiot and moreover I wouldn't ask for a human minute cuz I'd come prepared. No realism whatsoever at all.

Anyways, I am simply jealous of a fantasy. The girl is so not worthy of any this and the story itself so is lacking so much to be able to classify it under literature.

I can believe all the crap about the vampires to a point well because to begin with they are fantasy characters but I just can't find myself relating to Edward's suffering and conflict over the contradicting desires to love Bella and to kill her because well I can't believe she's worth loving as a character yet.

I had to skip over those parts along with the parts where excessive superlatives were used over and over and over again to the point of vomiting.

That's it.

Rant over.