Twilight Appreciation!

[River]

I haven't posted for real on BB for soooooo long, but I am going to have to now with all this Twilight talk .

Love the books. I have read all 4 of them countless times - I say countless because not only can I not remember how many times in full, but all the times I've just flicked through reliving my favourite scenes. I would say that I haven't gone a day since I bought them without picking up and spending at least part of my day in Forks.

I don't have a favourite book per se - if I've gone long enough without reading one, it will draw me in I'll *need* to read it. Breaking Dawn probably gets the most reads though - I get a thrill from Bella's graceful emergence in this book - how complete she becomes. How important she is. How very sure of herself she ends up.

I don't not in Team Edward or Team Jacob, they both are completely lovable characters, which is why Bella struggles so much. I yearn for the daydream of the children in La Push bobbing off into the forest, but cannot imagine the story ending without Edward. Both scenarios are equally appealling.

The movie. *grumble*. I saw the movie before reading any of the books, and at that point, it enthralled me. I found that it spoke to the nature of what women want - to be loved unconditionally, protected and cared for - with it having nothing to do with sex. However, after reading the books and appreciating the characters as they were meant to be - they just didn't get it right did they? I am very disappointed with their portrayal (or lack thereof) of Alice in particular, she is such a large part of Bella's (and Edward's) world, more of an introduction would have been nice. I am so dirty that nothing was mentioned about Jasper's ability, as I feel such kindness toward his character. The house change doesn't bother me, but people seem to get upset by that for some reason. I don't like the portrayal of Carlisle, and I'm sure Rosalie was off too, but I just don't like her, so don't care how she's portrayed - actually, the movie was probably kind on her lol. I think Emmett was a bad casting choice, he's a very endeering character in the books, and the movie just didn't seem to capture him well. I totally agree with Cai in that Edward was far more sure of himself than portrayed in the movie.

The soundtrack was unbelievably amazing though - kudos to whoever chose the score. Especially Bella's Lullaby - great work by Carter Burwell there, it is just mesmerising.

The deleted scenes *should* have been deleted. That biting the finger crapola - what was that??? As if Edward (or any vampire, but especially him) could 'taste' her blood. And what kind of a surefooted vampire would slip and fall on the ground? The only time Edward slips at all is in BD when Bella tackles him after their first hunting trip. We downloaded the deleted scenes and Catherine Hardwicke introduces that scene as being Kristin Stewart's favourite from the film....that sounds about right, she is the most miserable, whiney, obnoxious biatch of an actress I think I've ever heard of - it seems like she is just so bitter at being a paid actress in a hit series. She wouldn't present at the Oscars because she was only going to present at the oscars when she does something worthwhile, a good movie, not just one which makes a lot of money. Cranky cow. So it doesn't suprise me that this is her favourite scene - she just doens't *get* the concept of the series at all does she?

I've read the pdf of midnight sun (also countless times) and love it. I love the further insights into the Cullen's in particular - the OTT romantic melodrama doesn't actually touch me that much, although I like the scene when he 'changes' and falls in love with her. Love the scene in the car from Port Angeles from his perspective more than hers. Can't wait for the rest. On her site, Stephanie Meyer says that MS was the next of her projects once BD came out - she was kinda over the anger which made her shelve it at that point. I think she wanted about 2 years between the leak of the file and the official release, which would make it 2010 release.

Anyway, enough babble from me (although I probably will be back).