Bella Flexes Her Vampire Powers In Brand New Twilight: Breaking Dawn Trailer

Took me a while to recognise Lee Pace there (nowhere near as good looking in this trailer as I remember him). I miss ‘Pushing Daisies’…

Oh. My. That actually looks good.

Friendly reminder that the Twilight series romanticizes abusive relationships. PLEASE stop promoting this garbage.

They kind of have to make it go differently than in the book. If I recall correctly from my tween years, the entire fourth book is based around an enormous, epic, climactic battle of good and evil that never actually ends up happening.. Not a good way to end a movie really.
Also, the werewolf guy falls in love with a newborn child. That is beyond disturbing. I don’t consider these spoilers because people have been obsessing over these books for years and you have to have been living in a cave in the mountains to not know how this shit ends. Oh, how I wish I was a mountain hobo.

^- This. All of this. I haven’t watched any of the movies though. My boyfriend may want to go though, so maybe I’ll tag along. (Not making this up.)

At first glance I was ready to pump my fist and agree with you, but I stepped back and thought about it: plenty of media– including some of the media we love best! –romanticizes stuff that we don’t approve of, through and including murder, drug use, blowing stuff up, etc. As journalists, TMS writers (and other journalists) have a responsibility to the readership to provide the news that they’re interested in.

Which isn’t to say that they couldn’t also be more involved in sharing criticisms of such media; I notice they don’t seem to have weighed in on the most recent cycle of discussion about the primary Twilight’s abusive relationship, for example.

pffffffHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!

Because remember, girls, if you watch the Breaking Dawn trailer you’ll be possessed by an uncontrollable urge to run out and find an abusive sparkly vampire of your very own. And then God help you. Good thing we’ve got folks like Sara, Katie Roiphe, etc., around to save us from our own terrible taste…

It’s pretty much a Care Bear Stare. Then everyone goes home.

As if Games of Thrones and a lot of other geek stuff doesn’t. People are allowed to like problematic things. (And no, I don’t like twilight, but these things always only seem to come up when it’s about twilight or 50 Shades of Grey. Because it is “girl”-stuff?)

I think they’ve been pretty derisive of Twilight for its relationships’ eerie similarities to real abusive/unhealthy relationships and negative female protagonist, as well as its awfulness all around.

The first sentence opens with “For those of you who hate Twilight…”

The young women who idolize Twilight are the same teenage girls who are reading Romeo and Juliet and Wuthering Heights in their English classes. The problematic tropes Stephanie Meyer chose to draw upon are nothing particularly new or groundbreaking.

That first sentence is really more of an acknowledgment about how polarized opinions are on Twilight, but fair enough– I don’t read a lot of the Twilight articles here. :)

Lee Pace!

It’s not a counterargument, really. I just think the first time I read a comparison about abusive relationship signs and Twilight was on here. Like you, I sort of agree with the commenter, but also not. Plenty of female-interest fandoms are problematic, either because of their racism (HBO’s Girls, for example), homophobia/heteronormativity, sexism, or some other thing, but they still fall into fandom and should be discussed.

In fact, the important thing about intersections of those fandoms and perspective blogs like The Mary Sue is that when they happen, these issues CAN be pulled out and discussed. But with this, what hasn’t been said about Twilight from Book 1 to Movie 5 that needs to be said again.

Because this and 50 shades of abuse are based entirely around the relationship, with even the vamp thing in twilight being a sub-plot. You mention Game of Thrones, but that is a story of political power-plays, war, betrayal and many other things, it just has relationships that are abusive (which is expected of a 100% mysoginistic time period, even if it’s in a different universe or w/e…)

P.S. yes I’m a man, but yes I have read Twilight and it’s sequels (needed to know it rather than just falling into mindless piss taking, yes the vampire story is passable to okay, but it’s heavily bogged down by the focus on the pointlessness and helplessness of the girl-with-no-character and how she is nothing without a broody ass at her side [that's before even mentioning Meyer's obsession with bloody love triangles...])