Moment of Realization

[amarissia]

So, my sisters are going to see New Moon tonight.

All three of them.

I stand alone.

As it turns out, I am the cheese.

I always suspected this.

Peripherally, does it irk anyone else that no one will just call it New Moon, that everyone's got to add the super-serious "THE TWILIGHT SAGA" before it? I think the word "saga" is a bit lofty for sparkly vampires. Just saying.

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[freyathedark.livejournal.com]

Ugh, anything that involves sparkly -anything- has no place with a 'saga' anywhere near it.

*goes on anti-Twilight/New Moon/Twihard rant*

I commend you for refusing to go see it.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

*soaks up sympathy* Thank you! YES! Exactly.

[coffee-coolatta.livejournal.com]

Sparkly vampires. Ew.

[haphazardkid.livejournal.com]

*confessiontime!*

I've never read the books or saw the first movie.

I laughed so hard when I heard they sparkle.


...I went and saw New Moon last night.

*pained expression*

..it was pretty entertaining.

/shameful confession.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

It's okay. My sister made me read Twilight, and it was painful, but she also made me watch it, and for two seconds, I was actually snared. It must be full of subliminal messages. "You care about Bella and Edward. Sparkly vampires are compelling." Thank the gods it didn't last. :)

[bloodparade.livejournal.com]

Twilight does not deserve the word saga in it. I have resisted seeing Twilight the movie thus far, I will resist seeing New Moon as well. :)

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Yes! Fight the sparkly menace!

[xiexiegirl.livejournal.com]

Okay! Confession time! :D

I read Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. First time I read them, I thought the idea was cool, even if the execution fell flat. Upon seeing the first movie, I found it rather boring (biggest waste of $10 a ticket EVER, also, another hour and a half I will never get back). When I read the books again, I, erm, well... I'll spare you the rant on my opinion of Bella and Edward's relationship.

I saw New Moon. Midnight showing. I went for Taylor Lautner, Michael Sheen, Christopher Heyerdahl, Jamie Campbell-Bower, Dakota Fanning, and Cameron Bright. Basically, the eye-candy of evil vampires and a werewolf. I realized, about half-way through the movie, it's basically a vampirized "Pretty In Pink", and Jacob's Duckie. *eyeroll* Stephenie Meyer has seen a few too many 80's movies.

As for the Twilight Saga thing, it's to make it sound cooler. Tch. Lame.

Anyway, long rant over. :P

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Genesis says anything can be forgiven if it's done for eye-candy purposes, and I agree. :)

I tried to explain to my Twilight-fan sister WHY the books are awful - flat language, goopy over-description of OMG EDWARD IS SOOOO HOT, the author is Mary-Sueing like it's being outlawed tomorrow, at the very least this should not have been done in first-person POV, no part of the plot is original, it is bad fanfic in book form - but there's no talking to those people. :)

My sister told me at one point that Stephanie Meyer has never seen any vampire movies, read any vampire books, etc. RIGHT. She's only copying all of them!

[robonun.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one who's starting to get bored with the whole vampires vs. werewolves shtick? Give me some good old H.P. Lovecraft any day. If it makes me lose 1D6 SAN, then I know it's quality entertainment.

[aguescar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I once saw a fanart of Fye from Tsubasa Chronicles that said: "Real vampires don't sparkle"

I loved it!! I think I saw it in a Twitards page, it was kinda creepy, to read the attacks some people has taken when they said they didn't liked Twilight...

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Wait, Fye (Fai? Fi? Doesn't Vic Mignogna voice him?) is a vampire.

Tsubasa is going on the list. Please tell me it's not het.

[monalovely.livejournal.com]

.....*hysterical sobbing*

Ahhhhh Twilight anything = VOMIT.

SUMMIT, DON'T YOU DARE THROW THE WORD "SAGA" AT US!!!! THERE IS NO "SAGA" WORTHINESS IN THIS WHOLE WRETCHED SERIES.

I'm going to watch a REAL saga - Star Wars always makes car rides seem shorter (albeit a 10 hour one will still seem 10 hours long). Hope my laptop battery lives that long....I highly doubt it. Bother.

Mug is coming along, by the way :D

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

:) YAY! The first thing I shall drink out of the mug will be tea with honey, while reading smut. :)

Your laptop battery puts mine to shame if you're even gonna attempt that. Dude.

Yeah, when I think "saga", I think Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. Or "Icelandic". That's a Monty Python reference.

*offers room in the sparkle-proof box*

[rethira.livejournal.com]

Okay, confession time.

When I first read the books, I liked them - well, I only read the first three, but I liked them.

Then... the Twilight fans appeared on the horizon. And I said, 'screw this for a lark, I'm getting out while I still can.'

I absolutely refuse to see the films. I hate films of books... besides, while I could deal with sparkly vampires in book form, seeing them on the big screen is a bit much.

I don't hate the books. I've moved on from the 'this is a good book' to 'meh.'

But, yeah, films = bad. I will never, ever see them. Ever. Because people always crap up books when the filmify them.

Also, yes, that 'Saga' thing is a bit... silly. Now, LotR was a Saga. Twilight is not and it never will be.

[dyng-rose.livejournal.com]

I just call it New Moon. Actually that's a lie, I call it Twi-shit, but I guess that applies to the whole series instead of the one movie/book/whatever. But yes, adding the word 'saga' is entirely too pretentious for a story that's more poorly written than most fanfictions, and has the plot of a thirteen year old girl's fantasy (i.e. none).

Stand proud against New Moon! Do not give them your money or your time! VAMPIRES DO NOT FUCKING SPARKLE!!

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Exactly! I kept thinking "This author must have the mentality of a thirteen-year-old girl who never got the vampire boyfriend she wanted." The fact that she wrote from Bella's perspective confirms it.

That's a good battlecry. "VAMPIRES DO NOT FUCKING SPARKLE!"

[tenxxxryuko.livejournal.com]

When I read that Edward sparkled ifirst wondered if Myers was on crack and wrote that chapter is a delusional high phase or something. Then I realized how ridicuiously retarded it was. Then I prompted myself to laugh ass off. But I own all the books. Not for he whole Bella and Edward have a mental disorder relationship, but to read about Alice, Jasper, and the pretty werewolves. Who DON'T sparkle. Who love in an almost normal way ( The whole imprinting idea gives off so many ways to corrupt and use for yaoi ;D). Anyone else think Myers stole and ripped off almost all the classical romance story, vampire and werewof story, AND mentally-diseased books out there?

But I adore Jacob. And Jasper. And Alice, if only she was a guy!

Oh, also, rec Merlin! It's a British TV series about a young sorceress named Merlin who's fate is intertwined with young Prince Arthur Pendragon's....It's so suggestiveand tempting it's not funny!

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Yep yep, when I was forced to read Twilight, I thought the other vamps were interesting. I was interested to hear more about Carlisle's back-story, and the others, but the little there is is told badly, and it's treated like it doesn't matter next to BELLA AND EDWARD'S OMIGOD SO-PERFECT LOVE. Gag.

Thank you about Merlin, I have seen some of it, till I was KO'd by the plot-raping. I'm too much an Arthurian legends fan, I can't take the changes. :)

[x-erava-x.livejournal.com]

I liked Twilight for the first few chapters. Then I got to the description of the sparkliness, and I had to reread it. I was pretty much like, "That CAN'T have said what I think it just said, right?" So after that, my opinion of the book went downhill. But at the end I was still thinking it was okay. Then, I reread it, and I noticed how bad it was. I can totally feel a DIE TWILIGHT DIE rant coming on, but I should probably post that on my own journal...

I will, unfortunately, be watching the movie. Mostly for the eye candy. But also to laugh hysterically at the fans. ;)

Saga is generally added to a series that has 4-6 parts, be they movies or books. Three makes a trilogy, and more than six, for some reason, always ends up as Chronicles. Or just a series. But saga is way too cool a word to be modified by Twilight.

[tofusama.livejournal.com]

Erg. I got dragged to see it last night. I walked in after a horrendously long day of very unfun classes, and my roommate gave me her sad puppy face and asked "Do YOU like Twilight?"

And I sort of made a scrinchy face and went "Not...really..." and her sad puppy face worsened.

She just broke up with her boyfriend and didn't want to go by herself...So my brain spoke before the rest of me could run far, far away, and I said I'd go D<


On the up side there was much less of the sparkling, so I was glad of that.

There was a 40 year old woman behind me SIGHING dramatically and crying and I hear her at one point say "Their love is so beautiful~" So I had a bit of a gigglefit in the darkness there.

[arctic-silence.livejournal.com]

*stands with you*

I watched an hour+ long lecture on local access TV (yes I am a loser) about the history of gender & sexuality and how it relates to vampires, and the entire thing culminated in mocking Twilight and "sparklepires." Hee hee.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Ooh, see, that sounds fascinating. That mocking of Twilight makes it even better.

[nemesiscage.livejournal.com]

I'll admit it. I love Twilight and shamefully have used the word saga. I, however, do prefer Jacob to Edward. LOL. New Moon was good but not nearly as good as the book which I have read many, many times. I'm the only one of my friends who really like the series and I am a bit addicted. But we all have our own tastes right? *ducks*

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

:) As long as it doesn't interfere with feeding me Mirage of Blaze yumminess!

Dear gods, I am actually envisioning it - CROSSOVER. :)

[kel-fish.livejournal.com]

*snickers, then chokes and clears throat* You are the cheese. I hope they don't try to make... uh... a cracker out of you and drag you along. I'm so glad my sister and her boyfriend gag just as much over Twilight as I do. Geh.

Although, seriously. Why do they call it the Twilight Saga? It's stupid. Even Star Wars didn't call itself a saga at every turn. Other people called it a saga, not the people involved with the movies themselves.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Srsly, who started this "saga" thing? If it was Stephanie Meyer, that is SAD. Who calls their own work a saga?

[marchwarden23.livejournal.com]

No one ever went broke overestimating the bad taste of the general public or their sheep-like snivelling over equally suspect merchandising.

I tried to read it. Honest. It was simply badly written and not very interesting anyway. The characters are flat and shallow, the story is flimsy. There's barely a plot to speak of and what is there is predictable and you can drive a battleship through the holes. Nothing about it makes me care. At all.

More proof that shit sells.

Edited to say: If it was being marketed as comedy, I would have not a single bad word to say about it.

[key-of-ra.livejournal.com]

Those aren't vampires. I refuse to call them vampires. I dub them sparklepires because they are not fit to be called vampires. *goes on anti-Twilight rant*

I commend thee for standing strong. On the other hand, I am being forced to go since darling Rufus's new girlfriend is a Twihard. Oh the new lows Turks are being forced to stoop to. Spying on the VP's dates. What's next? Thank gaia I'm still being paid. And that Taylor Lautner is shirtless. I don't think I'd be able to stand the horror otherwise. *cries*

You are the cheese. And cheese is awesome. Never doubt that simple fact. ^-^

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Even if you're being paid, that is torture and should be reported to...uh...Rufus? I guess not. I don't suppose Turks have a place they can take their complaints, except Tseng, who does not seem like the most sympathetic fellow.

Zack: "Too bad. At least we SOLDIERs have Seph."

Also...ew, Rufus. Not only a girl, but a Twilitard? I'm suddenly feeling a lack of confidence in his leadership abilities.

[aguescar.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, you guys have to see this!! The pics are just way too much! http://www.twilightsucks.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=7202&start=50

OH!! I found it! More reasons to hate Twilight...read only if you want to...emmm...fuel, your hate of twitards http://twilightsucks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=fangirls&action=display&thread=5175

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

*basks in the Twilight-hate* Um, that's kinda mean, but DUDE. Never been so proud to be an HP fan. That's it, my brethren! Repel the Twitards with your literateness and ability to spell!

HA, they actually even say they like Twilight because it's EASY. What worthwhile story is easy?

[ladygunblade.livejournal.com]

Haha, 'The Twilight Saga'... it's all just so overrated. I read the book, which was horrible, and went to see the movie last saturday, which was at the very least a whole lot better than the first movie. Stewart has finally learned how to put on different facial expressions, and the wolves were fluffy, but the amount of Sue was just... *toes and fingers curl while typing* SO HORRIBLY HIGH. It was quite amusing that I laughed my ass off at parts where the rest of the crowd - 90% 14-year old girls who like to call themselves Mrs. Pattinson - (almost) cried. Hee.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

LOL

Y'know, I can KINDA understand the 14-year-old girls. What I don't get is the adults who go all SQUEE over Bella and Edward. :)

[lily-uzumaki23.livejournal.com]

"I think the word "saga" is a bit lofty for sparkly vampires."

TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU. i watched it...well, went along with what everybody else in my family wanted to watch desperately. i fell asleep and even kicked the seat in front me twice out of reflexes (i tend to do this a lot while i sleep in general). the guy in front of course glared at me. after the movie was done i got the feeling like the people around me were not too content with my behavior while watching their precious bullshit they have the audacity to call movie. HORRIBLE stuff! you did the right thing! i could handle being the cheese when it comes to twilight!

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

I'm glad not everyone is subject to the insanity. I'm going to see it with my friends, just so I can point out how much it sucks, and convert them. I hope. They might end up hating me, but eh.

[mina-skitty.livejournal.com]

http://www.jinx.com/men/shirts/geek/buffy_staked_edward.html
the end. ^_^

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

HA! Buffy WOULD totally pwn Edward. In fact, I think Giles could have.