What is so Wrong About Twilight?

Twilight annoys me, that’s the simple way to start this really.  I can understand why it’s such a success for teenage girls sure, it’s just like a typical magazine they read (full of men with no tops on).  Even past the sexual factor though there is another thing, people assume it made vampires and werewolves sexy.  Did it? Or did it turn them into whiney little school boys who should have left school over a year ago and “tribes” who are at best shape shifters rather than werewolves.

Vampires will always be sexy and it did not take Edward to prove that to us.  Look at Dracula, he can hypnotise people to do whatever he wants until the point at which he “penetrates” them and they become his.  I’m sure you noticed my sexual innuendo there and there was a point in it.  The vampire mythology is one of sex and societies fear of the freedom of being a sexual being.  Remember, we live in a society where sex is something that should be hidden and to be ashamed of (or that’s what we are taught all the time).  Established fonts of all knowledge such as the church tell us sex is something that will cause us no end of troubles, think of Adam and Eve.  It’s only when Adam and Eve taste the “apple” from the “tree of knowledge” that they are driven out of the garden of Eden for being unclean remember,   it’s the metaphorical roots of the teaching to us that sex is bad.

That is why vampires are seen as such evil characters.  They represent sexual freedom and the evil lure of sexuality upon we innocent pure children of God.  Silly isn’t it really when a lot of peoples so called “faith” is diluted to a point nowadays that we either have no belief of a God or “sin” then confess to try and rid ourselves of the guilt of doing things that we actually enjoy.  The vampire is a “demon”, he or she does what they enjoy and that is drinking blood.  It’s the sharing of bodily fluids from person to person, it’s the lust to devour that person and consume them.  Now tell me, does that remind you of Twilight? No? Probably because Twilight is more a warning to keep your virginity and look at the emo vampire that cries all the time because he did “it” and now sparkles in the sun, how pathetic quite honestly.

Now to the “werewolves” which I can’t really comment on in Twilight to be fair as I’ve not seen New Moon as of yet, I can still look at the “traditional” werewolf of course.  The werewolf like the vampire is a creature of lust, but also destruction.  He/she is the creature that lusts after the taste of flesh and the need to consume.  They lack no control and just as the vampire where a legend created to warn people the evils of not living a stable life within society.  I will say though that the werewolf is often the more tragic character who is forced against their will to turn into a beast when the moon is full.  How did they obtain such a curse? The passing of bodily fluids of course, blood and saliva.  It is a werewolf’s bite that causes the transformation and it is often pushed onto them against their will.  You could probably argue that the werewolf legend was a warning to people that if you have sex then you too will become this beast who lusts after innocent virginal people and take them against their will.  They are the work of the devil! Evil! No matter if the curse was passed onto them, they are a beast and should be killed.  Hardly seems to fit with the Twilight angry teenage shape shifters we see in New Moon does it?

So yes, Twilight annoys me.  It’s not the fans or their beliefs, let them have it and enjoy it but if anything I hate that the books were ever written.  Nothing against writing about werewolves and vampires but if the writer states that she hates horror and has never read anything else about the subject as research for her books? That quite honestly is a slap in the face for the legends and mythology of the creatures she is writing about.  I’d have thought the number one rule of writing such books would be to research what you are writing about.  If a book was written about drug addicts or alcoholics would you just write the book based on a very minimal knowledge of the subject material? I bet not, because it would come across as very immature and full of inaccuracies from the writer.  That is the problem with Twilight really, it’s very immature in its portrayal of the vampire and werewolves and even immature in its portrayal of love between two characters.  The “love” in Twilight seems to come down to stalking, selfishness and control;  If that’s love then what have I been doing wrong all these years because I’ve never had that kind of love.  We’re ok though, Twilight will teach all the little teens that that’s the way you should love people, they’ll be a generation of stalker emos and everything will be fixed.