The really boring bits in Breaking Dawn come in two parts:
1. Bella is the perfect vampire in every way, shape and form. She's gorgeous, she has almost no problems pulling away from attacking humans, she doesn't go insane for the first year like everybody else, she has like forty bajillion powers, she has a magic baby and a rich husband ... personally, I thought it was hilarious the more obvious Smeyer's self-insertion wish became.
2. Five million vampires show up to "witness" for Renesmee (which, boy, it's a good thing that doesn't have religious connotations or anything!), half of whom we've never met before. And then at the final battle nothing happens. I mean, it's almost all threat and no followthrough, except for one character we don't actually give a damn about. If I'm remembering correctly (although it's possible my brain's just making it up based on how much she seems like a total amateur), Smeyer made some comment along the lines of, "I couldn't kill off my characters, I looooove them!" Which ... oh, princess, NO.
Plus, there's the fact that Smeyer freely admits she didn't really research vampires so she wouldn't cloud her vision or some bullshit, which is great because she completely missed the sexual overtones of pretty much every vampire story known to man. What sex she does try to cram in there seems like it comes less from the vampire angle and more from the teenage one and makes Bella look like a slut who has to be taken into hand by Edward the hundred-year-old prude. It's creepy.
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Date: 2008-11-10 06:14 pm (UTC)1. Bella is the perfect vampire in every way, shape and form. She's gorgeous, she has almost no problems pulling away from attacking humans, she doesn't go insane for the first year like everybody else, she has like forty bajillion powers, she has a magic baby and a rich husband ... personally, I thought it was hilarious the more obvious Smeyer's self-insertion wish became.
2. Five million vampires show up to "witness" for Renesmee (which, boy, it's a good thing that doesn't have religious connotations or anything!), half of whom we've never met before. And then at the final battle nothing happens. I mean, it's almost all threat and no followthrough, except for one character we don't actually give a damn about. If I'm remembering correctly (although it's possible my brain's just making it up based on how much she seems like a total amateur), Smeyer made some comment along the lines of, "I couldn't kill off my characters, I looooove them!" Which ... oh, princess, NO.
Plus, there's the fact that Smeyer freely admits she didn't really research vampires so she wouldn't cloud her vision or some bullshit, which is great because she completely missed the sexual overtones of pretty much every vampire story known to man. What sex she does try to cram in there seems like it comes less from the vampire angle and more from the teenage one and makes Bella look like a slut who has to be taken into hand by Edward the hundred-year-old prude. It's creepy.