Basically, the tale of Edward and Bella would have made a great supernatural horror story--IF Meyer had written about them with the personalities that they really have instead of the ones she thinks they do. Because this is what I see when I see her favorite couple:
Edward--An obsessed, emotionally abusive psychopathic control freak who genuinely believes that he is damned, who constantly warns the girl in his life that he is going to kill her (which he eventually does), and who frequently admits that he enjoys killing and gets off on it.
Bella--A shallow, materialistic, hybristophilic girl who believes that value consists of being beautiful and rich, and who is willing to do anything, including dying and being eternally damned, to get it.
(As you'll see as you go on, Bella will beg and beg and BEG for vampirism even after Edward warns her that it means death and damnation, and even when her main worry should be Edward and not "Oh my heck**, Edward is going to die, and then who's going to turn me?")
Also, I believe that Meyer wrote in the forced kissing scene because Jacob/Bella was becoming as popular than Edward/Bella, and she just couldn't have that. So she wrote in a scene that was basically a Writer Revolt, trying to sink the Jacob/Bella ship--or at least make it less plausible--by making Jacob look bad.
**"Oh my heck" is a Mormon euphemism. They don't like to say "Oh my God."
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on 2009-11-19 09:24 pm (UTC)Edward--An obsessed, emotionally abusive psychopathic control freak who genuinely believes that he is damned, who constantly warns the girl in his life that he is going to kill her (which he eventually does), and who frequently admits that he enjoys killing and gets off on it.
Bella--A shallow, materialistic, hybristophilic girl who believes that value consists of being beautiful and rich, and who is willing to do anything, including dying and being eternally damned, to get it.
(As you'll see as you go on, Bella will beg and beg and BEG for vampirism even after Edward warns her that it means death and damnation, and even when her main worry should be Edward and not "Oh my heck**, Edward is going to die, and then who's going to turn me?")
Also, I believe that Meyer wrote in the forced kissing scene because Jacob/Bella was becoming as popular than Edward/Bella, and she just couldn't have that. So she wrote in a scene that was basically a Writer Revolt, trying to sink the Jacob/Bella ship--or at least make it less plausible--by making Jacob look bad.
**"Oh my heck" is a Mormon euphemism. They don't like to say "Oh my God."