I am doing a little survey for a paper and since this is the most active group i am in, here it is :)
Have you read the twilight series and/or watched the movies? do you plan on ever doing so? What is your opinion of the relationship of Jacob,Bella and Edward and each as individuals in both the movies and books? Based on your perceptions of their relationship, is it one you would want for yourself or your child ( not involving the supernatural, just the base relationship and how it would be irl)
I'm very sure that some of the young people out there do and they are looking for the perfect edward/bella and it just isn't like that and I think they may get hurt looking for something that doesnt exist, meaning they will be so busy looking for edward/bella that they won't see what's right there in front of them
Quoting polyhymia:
Quoting MomandWife6:I think the books are well written and a very good read. I don't however feel that those ideals should be brought over into real life. I think an everlasting love like that is idealistic and nonsense but it's a good thought anyway. I'm just very glad that i do not have a teenage daughter that can get caught up in all the twilight bull crap. It's a great tweenie bopper dream to dream of love forever and all that and vamps are cool...but yeah no I'm good. and the movies are extremely different from the books...
do you think that it is possible that some of the young readers do bring it into real life though?
Eh, ask again if I give two shits.
The books/movies were what they were. The movies were actually pretty good. Never read past the first book.
Quoting Anonymous:
No you're not
Quoting MrsRi:Twilight- A bunch of sparkly pedophiles running around. One said character falls in love with and dominates a young virginal character. Gets girl pregnant and tries to force her to have an abortion. She has a baby, Jacob realizes he can't have Bella and instead falls in love with a newborn and creepily watches her come of age or close enough to it so he can bang his substitute Bella.
Am I close?
Quoting polyhymia:
you should head over to the pinterest geek section. They have some great comparisons of female role models and twilight. Buffy vs Bella. Harry potter girls vs Bella. Princess leia vs Bella. It's all in great fun but there are some major points that are hit
I loved the books, the movies are really good, but definitely not the best I've ever seen. I think the whole love triangle is stupid, but it makes for a decent story. I think the relationship between Bella and Edward is twisted, and bordering on stalkerish. And I think either Renesmee's character should have been left out, or should have been developed more, maybe into another book. That one was kind of a dead end.
Do you see their relationship as being true love?
Quoting MomandWife6:I'm very sure that some of the young people out there do and they are looking for the perfect edward/bella and it just isn't like that and I think they may get hurt looking for something that doesnt exist, meaning they will be so busy looking for edward/bella that they won't see what's right there in front of them
Quoting polyhymia:
Quoting MomandWife6:I think the books are well written and a very good read. I don't however feel that those ideals should be brought over into real life. I think an everlasting love like that is idealistic and nonsense but it's a good thought anyway. I'm just very glad that i do not have a teenage daughter that can get caught up in all the twilight bull crap. It's a great tweenie bopper dream to dream of love forever and all that and vamps are cool...but yeah no I'm good. and the movies are extremely different from the books...
do you think that it is possible that some of the young readers do bring it into real life though?
I've watched the movies, and enjoy the movies, but the love triangle isn't something I've thought about with too much depth. It's just a movie. I guess in real life, I certainly wouldn't want my teenage daughter being consumed by a love affair between two guys. I'd want her only focus to be her education at that age.
I read the books, and I've seen all the movies, but I actually really hate the movies...they make me want to vomit, but I still watch them, I just only rent them when they come on redbox. I don't want to give them more than that. The books were okay, I read them in high school, so I thought they were good, but even when I liked them, I always thought Bella was a dumbass, Edward was a creepy old guy (even though he looked 17), who was a controlling asshole most of the time, and then Jacob...I alwasy felt sorry for him because he was in love with such a stupid twat, lol. I thought their relationship was stupid...like Edward is supposed to be an old man basically, and he acted like such an asshole....You'd think after all his living he'd maybe...you know...grow up. lol. And as for bella....shes just an idiot....like really.
My favorite Characters were Always Alice and Jasper, Rosalie and Emmet. Basically everyone else but Bella and Edward.
If I were ever in a relationship like theres, I would promptly leave it....One, I wouldn't ever lead a guy on like she did to Jacob, and two, If a guy isn't honest with me, even when he thinks that not telling me something, or lying to me is going to protect me from something, and he seems to act jealous about me being friends with other guys, or just acts like I'm some fragile piece of glass.....I'm gone. I don't like being treated like that.
Quoting polyhymia:
Quoting Michellina11234:
Quoting polyhymia:
Quoting Michellina11234:eh they were ok books, the movies I found stupid
but what about the actual relationships involved? do you think young readers ( really young, the books were very simple) look at the relationship between bella and edward or bella and jacob as "real"?
I don't think i would classify the relationship between a vampire and a teenager as real. Like Stephen king said ..."Harry potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
say the dynamics within the relationship were the same, but edward was not a vampire, is more what i was getting at. I like that quote :)
to me it was not a healthy relationship. She focused her whole life around one man.
At what age should I tell my son dh is not his bio dad?
- polyhymia
on Nov. 8, 2012 at 11:32 AM