Immortality
It’s interesting,
right? I mean, living forever, that’d be pretty cool. You’d probably get to see
those hovercars that we keep hearing about but which nobody has bothered to
invent yet.
You could do
absolutely nothing day after day after day, and not be wasting time because
you’re going to live forever!
Or you could horde
information. That’s what I would do. Just horde knowledge, invent some cool
stuff, cure cancer, you know, the usual. Jetpacks, here we come.
Or you could surf the
internet forever; that’s a worth-while use of time!
Of course, there
are a few downsides, namely that everyone you know and love would eventually
shrivel up and die, but whatever, right? Just think of all the stuff you could
accomplish!
Like… going to high
school over and over again. And seducing a seventeen-year-old. And living with
a whole bunch of other immortal people in a boring town in the middle of
absolutely-*effing-nowhere, in some place where the sun can’t be bothered to
shine.
Sounds fun, right?
Because we all
loved high school, right? Like, if you were immortal, you would totally want to
just keep enrolling yourself in different high schools, again and again, see
the same type of two-faced girls and the same *d-bag guys who haven’t
emotionally matured since second grade—and let’s not forget those kids who are
always getting high, we all missed them!
Okay. I’ve
exhausted my ability to be sarcastic.
Maybe you haven’t
caught on yet, but yes, I am talking about the Cullens. If you still don’t know
what I’m on about, good for you! You’re still pure. Just remember, if you ever
become immortal, do something fun.
Now, I could rant
on about how awful the writing is, or how sexist it is, or how unrealistic it
is, or any of the thousands of other things that are wrong with the Twilight
series, but I won’t. Because I’m honestly more annoyed by the wasted
immortality.
I would love to be
immortal! I think that would be awesome. Mostly. I would like to have other
immortal company, so that I don’t get bored and lonely and depressed, but other
than that it would be cool. (By company I mean I would totally make my cat
immortal.) I could write several pages on all the crap you could do if you were
immortal, just because you had the time! Like, you could watch mold grow on
cheese. You could watch coal under pressure get squished into a diamond. You
could watch humanity evolve!
Or, high school.
Yup. Wow, what a
choice.
That is why the
Cullens are awful, unrealistic, ridiculous, poorly-thought-out characters. No one would ever willingly repeat high
school. Especially not over and over again!
I’m fairly certain
that for most of us, high school was a fairly traumatic experience. It had its
good days, but in general just sucked. Even the people who liked it, though, wouldn’t
go back! There just isn’t any reason
to.
If you ever looked
up the leaked bit of Midnight Sun, you would see that Edward was practically
catatonic from boredom in the beginning. So then, why is he there? It’s not like he has to go. I’m pretty sure he
could go get a job, or go to college, or even just chill out in the woods. Nobody’s making him! He’s not even
required by truancy laws or anything, because he’s like a hundred years old,
guys.
I just—I don’t
understand. Am I the only one? The Cullens could do something better with their
time than needlessly repeating high school, right?
You’re stupid,
Stephenie Meyer!
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*in an effort to keep this blog PG13, I changed two words. I'm not a fan of censorship but my readers range in age from thirteen on up and generally don't see that type of language from me or my posts. Thank you for understanding. (not that they can't figure out what the word is supposed to be anyway)
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Immortality would be awesome, and as those...ahem...books are directed at teenage girls (present company excepted I think), creating a hunky immortal dude might have been a good idea from a sales standpoint. That makes the whole endeavor rather shallow though, doesn't it? A character will create itself, him, her, it, and if that character is unsustainable, that character should go. This guy, the immortal high-schooler, could benefit from some home-schooling maybe, a stint in the army, or a mission year with the Mormon Church. But she sells books, but that isn't what writing is, but she sells books...
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