"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." - Hannah Arendt
I hate Twilight. I just can't stand it. It's a stain on the face of true literature and philosophy, and if people weren't so ignorant to the facts of my statements or stupidly mesmerized by the good looks of the films' untalented cast members, they'd see it for themselves, too.
I don't just hate the franchise just to hate it, without reason, but because it just plain sucks.
From the Upper East Side/"Gossip Girl"-looking cast of the films, to the baseball-playing vamps and werewolves, to the stereotypical love story between the main leads of the series, to the "perfect" existances of the characters (especially the immortal ones), to the absence of depth of the overall storyline and it's universe, I just can't seem to get my head around the fact that this franchise is unfortunatley going to be apart of what future generations will come to judge my own generation by. It's quite embarrassing.
In my head, the Twilight series is the 90210 of paranormal dramas. And just like 90210.... Twilight sucks. It's unoriginal, it's unrealistic (even by sci-fi/fantasy standards), and it's got no true storyline to it. I mean, if you cut the story up, actually get in there and disect the storyline, there's nothing there other than some cheap thrills and, in terms of the films, EXTREMELY bad special effects.
The werewolves look like they just came off of the sets of some 1970's slasher film with the budget of no more than a thousand bucks, the vampires look like they've just come off of the covers of Vanity Fair Magazine, and the human characters seem all-too-fine, and unaffected, by the existance of such supposidly "intimidating" supernatural beings.
I was once a critic of my buddy Jason's all-time most favorite series "Angel" before I came to agree with him that it was a one-of-a-kind type of deal, but even when I was at my most critical of that show, I'd still take it over Twilight in a heartbeat. And don't get me started with Supernatural.
Twilight can only hope to one day be able to even hold a candle to my most precious and loved series of all time: Supernatural. The characters of Supernatural are a thousand times much more fleshed-out, in depth, gritty, complex, and overall realistic than any incarnation of the Twilight mythos can ever be.
Where Supernatural is more of a cross between The X-Files, Star Wars, and American Gods, Twilight is an abomination of Melrose Place, Snow White and a failed attempt to rip-off Interview With The Vampire (Which I respected as a piece of literature, but hated because Anne Rice is a clear-as-day arrogant and snobby bitch).
Alone, just the basic plot of Supernatural kicks Twilight's ass!
Supernatural tells the story of two brothers who were raised on the roads of the United States, and trained to be warriors at the will of their father, to hunt the evil side of the supernatural world, after their mother was killed when they were children, by a demon who was on a mission to release Lucifer out of hell in hopes of causing the armageddon.
While on the other hand we have the stereotypical practical joke of a plot for Twilight....
Twilight charts a period in the life of a teenage girl who moves to a small town and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen, as they fight to find a way to be together through the objections of their own families and friends.
Sounds like another version of Romeo & Juliet, if you ask me. And a bad version, at that.
And although I've even been a critic, at times, of one of my own favorite shows, True Blood, for their lack of depth, substance, and constant use of sex, violence, and profanity just for mere shock value, I'd still even have to choose True Blood over Twilight, for the simple fact that True Blood, at least, kept their feet grounded in reality at some level or another (although they lost sight of their original goal during season two) throughout the course of their run so far.
When it comes down to it, my biggest complaint and critism of the entire Twilight series is that the series glamourizes it's characters, especially it's vampires, way too much.
Simple as can be.... Twilight just sucks ass. A major amount of ass, to say the least.
Twilight is missing the charisma of Supernatural, the grit of Angel, and the charm of True Blood.
"Twilight" just sucks....
I hate Twilight. I just can't stand it. It's a stain on the face of true literature and philosophy, and if people weren't so ignorant to the facts of my statements or stupidly mesmerized by the good looks of the films' untalented cast members, they'd see it for themselves, too.
I don't just hate the franchise just to hate it, without reason, but because it just plain sucks.
From the Upper East Side/"Gossip Girl"-looking cast of the films, to the baseball-playing vamps and werewolves, to the stereotypical love story between the main leads of the series, to the "perfect" existances of the characters (especially the immortal ones), to the absence of depth of the overall storyline and it's universe, I just can't seem to get my head around the fact that this franchise is unfortunatley going to be apart of what future generations will come to judge my own generation by. It's quite embarrassing.
In my head, the Twilight series is the 90210 of paranormal dramas. And just like 90210.... Twilight sucks. It's unoriginal, it's unrealistic (even by sci-fi/fantasy standards), and it's got no true storyline to it. I mean, if you cut the story up, actually get in there and disect the storyline, there's nothing there other than some cheap thrills and, in terms of the films, EXTREMELY bad special effects.
The werewolves look like they just came off of the sets of some 1970's slasher film with the budget of no more than a thousand bucks, the vampires look like they've just come off of the covers of Vanity Fair Magazine, and the human characters seem all-too-fine, and unaffected, by the existance of such supposidly "intimidating" supernatural beings.
I was once a critic of my buddy Jason's all-time most favorite series "Angel" before I came to agree with him that it was a one-of-a-kind type of deal, but even when I was at my most critical of that show, I'd still take it over Twilight in a heartbeat. And don't get me started with Supernatural.
Twilight can only hope to one day be able to even hold a candle to my most precious and loved series of all time: Supernatural. The characters of Supernatural are a thousand times much more fleshed-out, in depth, gritty, complex, and overall realistic than any incarnation of the Twilight mythos can ever be.
Where Supernatural is more of a cross between The X-Files, Star Wars, and American Gods, Twilight is an abomination of Melrose Place, Snow White and a failed attempt to rip-off Interview With The Vampire (Which I respected as a piece of literature, but hated because Anne Rice is a clear-as-day arrogant and snobby bitch).
Alone, just the basic plot of Supernatural kicks Twilight's ass!
Supernatural tells the story of two brothers who were raised on the roads of the United States, and trained to be warriors at the will of their father, to hunt the evil side of the supernatural world, after their mother was killed when they were children, by a demon who was on a mission to release Lucifer out of hell in hopes of causing the armageddon.
While on the other hand we have the stereotypical practical joke of a plot for Twilight....
Twilight charts a period in the life of a teenage girl who moves to a small town and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen, as they fight to find a way to be together through the objections of their own families and friends.
Sounds like another version of Romeo & Juliet, if you ask me. And a bad version, at that.
And although I've even been a critic, at times, of one of my own favorite shows, True Blood, for their lack of depth, substance, and constant use of sex, violence, and profanity just for mere shock value, I'd still even have to choose True Blood over Twilight, for the simple fact that True Blood, at least, kept their feet grounded in reality at some level or another (although they lost sight of their original goal during season two) throughout the course of their run so far.
When it comes down to it, my biggest complaint and critism of the entire Twilight series is that the series glamourizes it's characters, especially it's vampires, way too much.
Simple as can be.... Twilight just sucks ass. A major amount of ass, to say the least.
Twilight is missing the charisma of Supernatural, the grit of Angel, and the charm of True Blood.
"Twilight" just sucks....
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