twilight: breaking dawn

[amezri]

I just finished reading it and have been chatting with arysani about it.

Really. Spoilers. For the book wot I just read.

I'm too lazy to reorganize my thoughts so a lot of this is just copy&pasted.

Right. So. Bella and Edward with the wedding and the honeymoon on their own private island. Nice. Quickly ruined by MUTANT CHILD.

Blah blah, complications with the pregnancy and... just insanity. Then Bella gets turned. FINALLY. I kind of thought that would never happen, but once it did. Hrm.

me: omg wtf Bella is the MOST PERFECT VAMPIRE EVAR??~
arysani: hahahahaha. I WAS TOTALLY THINKING OF YOU WHEN I READ THAT
me: A lot of that was sort of eyerolling
arysani: i'm like "of COURSE"
me: HEEEEE
arysani: "NATURALLY"
me: And everyone LOVES HER
and her BABY
Her freakish, hybrid baby
arysani: the kid is SPECIAL, okay?!
me: SPESHUL!!

And honestly, that's all I have to say about that because OF COURSE Vampire Bella would be gorgeous and BETTER THAN EVERYONE AT EVERYTHING.

OH! ALICE! I'm glad Alice came back.

arysani: i was just SO HAPPY alice was back.
me: Me too! And I so knew she had her own mission
arysani: i'm like "no, alice def did not jump ship. she did not. i don't know what she IS doing...but no ship-jumping. just. no."
i was hoping she did - but when it looked like everyone thought she was gone, i'm like "fuhwuh? no, alice!"
me: NO! ALICE IS The WINZ!

me: I'm sorry. I just can't get over the kid's name
arysani: ja - that was a little special.
i much prefer "ness"
me: Renesmee? Srsly? Yeah.... Or god... like... Remee

I mean, seriously, why would you do that to your kid? I understand the special, but let's not transition the Mary-Sue-ness from Bella to the kid.

arysani: i TOTALLY called the preggers thing tho'
i have an ish with vampire pregnancies in general, but i would like the world to know that i built a bridge and got over it just so i could stomach the rest of the story.
me: HAHAH I thought it was bit too far fetched; WHAT WAS I THINKING?
arysani: YOU OBVIOUSLY WEREN'T! IT'S TOTALLY POSSIBLE MKAY?!
me: OKAY! ZOMG!
arysani: GEEZ. STOP ASKING QUESTIONS!
me: SORRY! WITH THE BRAINING
arysani: NO BRAINZ! THIS AIN'T A ZOMBIE LOVE STORY! THIS IS A VAMPIRE NOT-A-REAL-WEREWOLF STORY!
me: .....

arysani: but overall i wasn't disappointed or furious or batshitcrazy about it. i think it could have ended with the third book and i would have been happy.
but i didn't hate that there was another.
me: Yeah, I'm still filled with "omg, what?!" but that's typical of this series
and I'm okay with the way it all worked out, I guess
it's not atypical considering the previous three

That confrontation with the Volturi I'd love to see on screen. And a house full of vampires all tripping over themselves to protect Renesmee.

I think I have other thoughts, but that's enough babble about a fandom I never really wanted to be involved and mocked a couple weeks ago. Now I've purchased the book and am thinking of completing the collection because I have OCD.

Anyay, cleolinda reflects most of my thoughts pretty well.

Comments

[eido.livejournal.com]

I have to say, I love how the author says she never watches rated R movies since she's a good Mormon, but ch. 18 was seriously some splattergore straight out of Saw or The Hills Have Eyes. Edward fricking chewing the damn mutant out of her womb. omg Also, imprinting = instant pussywhipped (in an incredibly creepy fashion, I could hardly read that Quil/Claire bit on the beach of pedo, then she had to go and do the same to Jacob and with the mutant UGH).

I don't know, I thought that Volturi confrontation at the end was sort of anticlimactic. The glorious, no holds barred confrontation of... talking and empty negotiations. All to show off what a superpowered, raging Mary Sue vampire Bella is and how everyone is scared shitless of her ultimately including the bad ass vampire mafia. As if we needed more confirmation.

[amezri.livejournal.com]

I wonder if she has some sort of issue with pregnancy and birthing. Geez. The imprinting on the babies doesn't bother me nearly as much as the idea of imprinting itself. Big WTF there.

Okay, really want I wanted to see on screen was all the vampires on the Cullen side, flanked by wolves and whatever effect they'd use to convey Bella's super brain powers.