SO, I haven't read the whole series yet, but that hasn't stopped my vampire crazied friends from blurting the whole story to me. The biggest complaint was that (stop reading if you hate spoilers!) SOMEONE who is a Vamp gets pregnant.

This, frankly, surprised and disappointed me a bit. I respected the series up to that point. I understand, some people do not care, but I felt it doesn't follow along with the Vampire Genre.

Sure, I'm all for thinking outside of the box. I like the other ideas she created for vampires. Somewhat new and fresh ideas, but I believe letting an Undead human be able to reproduce is a little...silly. You can't have your cake and eat it too...

That's how I feel about it. I do like the Natives being Werewolves, though. It's badass. :love:

PLEASE, post your opinions. I'm getting mixed responses.

Vampire doesn't get pregnant.... Human got pregnant from vampire. Kinda different but not much. There are different stories, let people have fun :-P lol

That's probably my ONLY issue with the series but personally story wise I think it worked well so I'm not gonna complain ;)

Same thing, though! It's like everything died by the his reproductibe parts? <_<

I like the fact that they shine in the daylight. That's pretty neato! :fangy:

they explain it like vampires are frozen in time. that is why mans can knockup humans, but not female vamps. it does make some since.

My biggest beef with Twilight is that the vampires are so "unique" that by my definition, they aren't vampires anymore. They're more like a sort of Unseelie fairy species. Also? I do not understand the rabid Edward Cullen fangirls. >.>;

And, quite frankly, it bugs the crap out of me that this particular series got so much attention that it doesn't really deserve. It's like the Harry Potter phenomenon, only worse, because the author definitely didn't put as much thought behind the creation of her world as J.K. Rowling did, or even into her characters (though I acknowledge that Potter-verse characters are pretty one-dimensional too). I would not allow Bella or Edward to exist on Vital, due to a total lack of originality and/or character depth. :P

I have many other issues with that series that I won't get into at the moment, since it seems there are some fans lurking and I don't have a death wish. *hides behind bush*

Oh! Wait, one more. Reneesme? That should be counted as child abuse.

I also have a theory that Stephanie Meyer used to RP on Vital, and was kicked off. >.> Her revenge was writing a vampire universe her way, and lucking out with it becoming massively popular... And she left little things behind to irk me, like the fact that the Marcus in Twilight (who happens to be ancient and part of a council of vampires that enforce laws) is an extremely uninteresting twat, or that she uses terms like 'dead blood'. But that's just me being egocentric and paranoid, I'm sure. >.>

Technically speaking, the vampire-getting-pregnant thing isn't new. It's a somewhat of a given for the vampires in Laurell K. Hamilton's universe, and it also happened once on Angel. Also technically, from what I understand, Hamilton created the "vampire baby potentially ripping apart the mother" too. Don't know for sure if that's what happened as I haven't read Breaking Dawn, but I believe I recall something like that. Read the first two, and found no reason to continue.

I have certain thoughts about the Twilight franchise. None of them are particularly nice. I won't say that the books are the most awful I've read, but they're certainly nothing special. I ditto everything Kira said. Especially the part about Renesmee, which sounds more like a sneeze than anything. o_O

*shrug*

That's just my two cents. Maybe I do have a death wish, haha.

I've n ever read any of the Twilight series... mostly 'cause like what Marcus/Kira said about them not really being vampires, but weird fairy-creatues.

Vampires are vampires because they can't walk in the sunlight, they have to drink blood, and they can't reproduce except by turning--in my opinion.

And, just for the record, I despised it when Angel did it. I also despised Connor, but that was just because he was a little whiney ass.

I concur.

But that's based on the like, half the 3rd season and the last episode of the 4th, haha. Missed the rest, and didn't get the feeling I was missing anything altogether life changing. Might go back eventually, we'll see.

Ditto about the Connor thing., too.

Angel's fifth season was much improved... except for that one episode...

God, Connor! I just wanted to kick him in the nuts and tell to get the frick over it already!

I had a hard time getting into Angel and Buffy. Not sure why, but I just could take some of it seriously. Maybe it was fans that I met...and how they took it too seriously.

It's fun and games anyway, right? Though, I do feel that the "vampires" in Twilight are not vamps at all. I do like the setting, though, and the werewovles. Native Americans don't get enough attention in modern fantasy really. It's a bummer. :(

I'm just waiting for the next big trend in fantasy. It went from Harry Potter to Twilight. Who's next?