26.8.08

So long

We're going offline here, because blogger is getting a bit annoying and there are better sites out there to host your blog on.  Seriously.
So come find me on LiveJournal, and I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

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22.8.08

Breaking…Down?

Caution:  This post contains spoilers for the Twilight series, including Breaking Dawn.  It also contains a bit of rantiness, so be warned.

 

Just finished Breaking Dawn this morning, and I need somewhere to rant about it.  I get the feeling that the friend who lent it to me wouldn't be too happy if I went and said all of this to her face, so I'll just type it up instead.  She's the type that's completely obsessed with the series, and I'm a bit more cynical.

From the beginning, I didn't expect much from BD.  The whole series, while okay, hasn't exactly been placed on my favorites list.  I dislike both Bella and Edward (Actually, Alice and Jake are the only two characters in those books I really like), so it's hard to get into the story.  I could go through the character/storytelling flaws of the whole series here too, but that would take awhile.  So we'll save it.  Back on topic, I hated the first chapter of BD.  The first sentence, really.  To me, it was almost beyond pathetic, but very Bella.  She's not a very strong character, so again, I didn't expect much different from her.  But still…the drama!  I don't really hold with that either.
The first "book" of BD, book Bella, as I call it, wasn't entirely interesting.  Sure, it had some fun moments (I probably liked all of the ones that everyone else hated), but as a whole my brain was yawning as I read it.  I seriously had to take a break at one point because it was getting too ridiculous for me.  Bella was totally obsessed with Edward, he was being a "gentleman" as always and, well…not much happened. 

Book 2, book Jacob, was much better.  I've always loved Jake best in the series, so it was great seeing stuff from his POV.  He's a lot more interesting.  I disliked the chapter names, but whatever, that's a small complaint.  I liked how he split off from Sam's pack to protect Bella.  That was really cool.  And I was glad Leah came with him, and Seth.  I admit, in this book, I was thinking that I might maybe actually like the ending of Breaking Dawn.  Sure, Bella was being a bit stupid, but that was to be expected.  Jake's coolness sort of made up for it and, well, I was actually interested.  Until I reached the end.  I was totally disappointed that Stepehenie Meyer made Jake imprint on Renesmee (What sort of name is that, anyway?).  I liked the Jake who was in love with Bella, not the Jake who liked Bella's kid.  It would have been much better that hadn't happened.

Book 3 came, and by this time I just wanted to be done.  Sure, there was excitement; there was fighting and sex.  Yay.  But I just didn't find it so interesting anymore.  Bella was too…predictably written.  Of course she wouldn't succumb to the newborn hunger, and of course she's better than every other vampire out there without even trying.  Nope, sorry, don't think it would work that way.  That part of Bella irritated me so much more than everything else put together, and when she said that the vampire world was the place where she belonged (after a long, boring, self-pitying monologue), I almost put the book down right then and there.  But I'd told my friend I would read it, so I just kept going.  Anyhow, Aro, Marcus, Caius, and a whole shitload of other vampires show up; they're outnumbered and out-talented by Bella and the special vampires around her (haha), and they're, of course, evil.  Right.  And then Renesmee, Bella's I'm-much-better-than-regular-vampires-because-I-have-the-best-of-both-worlds(like-Miley-Cyrus/Hannah-Montana) daughter manages to convince everyone that she should be allowed to live.  And the Volturi decide not to take anyone for their own benefit, hurrah.  The main conflict has been resolved peacefully.

Then, of course, there's the happily ever after, in which we have lots more sex (well, implied sex, at least), a happy Charlie, a happy Jake, a happy Renesmee, and even a happy random-other-vampires-who-hook-up.  Absolutely ridiculous, and altogether too predictable.  Don't we even get a bit of angst at the end, Stephenie?  And I still ship either Bella/Jake or Edward/Jake.  Or something other than Bella/Edward.


tl,dr; Edward is not Prince Charming, Bella shouldn't live a happy little fairy tale life with no problems, and Jake should be free to love who he wants to.

The end.