Thank you for calling me a sheeple.
Sorry... thats not how I meant that to sound, I simply meant
that I expect how you feel about the books out of people, it makes
sense for most people to see the books the way you do. A very
logical and common-sense oriented person sees the situation just
as you do. Perhaps it's because I see things so off-kilter when it
comes to romance that I make sense of the series in a positive way.
I applaud your ability to quote, honestly... I don't think I have the
patience at this time to go through and refute each argumentation,
and this'll be my last post on the subject for the night because I
just don't feel we are getting anywhere, and I hate to waste your
time fighting a frivolous battle, clearly we both feel a certain way
on the subject and no amount of refutation will change that.
Though it does seem we do agree on a few clear points, I will
close my rebuttal with this;
Twilight is a very fantastic story, and a lot of it's elements range far
outside of normal circumstances for a relationship. It is outlandish
in it's story arc and progression because thats how it moves the plot
along, with all the crazy monsters and their shenanegans thrown in.
Edward is adverse to Bella's relationship with Jacob not for his personality,
but for his being a WEREWOLF in no other way does Edward dislike
Jacob, infact, he often made mention that Jacob would be better for
bella then he. The fantasy takes prescidence over the realism in these
situations, which can make it confusing, and that I respect. Their love
doesn't make sense to people because our society doesn't cater to this
kind of love. But in truth, the love without the pre-tense is a historical
situation. People fall in love in movies and books and songs and poems
without any rhyme or reason all the time. Also, there are a lot of ways
to show that devotion that clear the spectrum that starts with the feverish
beating of your heart and ends with making love. Just because she can't
steel herself away from his embrace and just because she wants to hold
his kisses longer doesn't make her a nympho (or really, it doesn't make her
obsessed with sex, she like any warm blooded human wants him, but it's
only later, once they are really talking about being together forever, once
things start to progress to eternity, that that really becomes an issue) and
while her feelings may be blatant, the fact that they aren't acted on in
full atests to their commitment as a couple doesn't it? If they were both
that lustful, wouldn't they get frustrated and just go find someone else?
Something more than desire has to be holding that girl to him and him to
her or else they'd have gone off with other people a long time ago.
Let me mention a quote of yours:
ME: but... taking a step
outside any relationship.. there are things that could be seen as wrong or
awkward or abusive.
YOU:
In normal relationships, people do not say, "You aren't allowed to see your best friend."
Whenever was it stated that edward and bella are anything less than completely
ABNORMAL. It's a human and a vampire for peats sake!
To finish, Edward and Bella are an odd instance, the exception to the rule.
They are old souls, and connected by that fact and their shared personality of being
the a-social dissociative fly on the wall's. They dream of more, they observe and
ponder, and they are empathic to eachothers inner turmoil and love eachother because
they see so much more in eachother than they see in themselves, and they are willing
to go the distance to show it.
*shrugs* I dunno, thats just how I see it but once again there are a million ways to
interpret a book... why should Twilight be any different.. I just think when you
start trying to base your love life or how your love life should be off a vampire
and a human girl in a love triangle with a werewolf, you should put down the
books and go outside for some fresh air...
LOL!
~Allykat