Bitten

I finally exposed myself to the Twilight saga this past weekend.  Nathan and I rented the movie and all I can say is…I’m intrigued.

Now I love me a good vampire flick, but perhaps the years of watching “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” led me to expect, perhaps wrongly, that I’d see some fangs in Twilight.   But there were no fangs.  At least I didn’t see any fangs.  I was crocheting while I watched the movie so I may have missed the fangs.  There was lots of hissing and posturing and also that cool scene where Alice climbs on top of James and rips his head off, but no fangs.  I was a little sad.

But I know that whole vampire thing is secondary to the epic love story between Edward an Bella.  And how cute is Bella with her beat up truck and awkward social skills?  How does a girl like that attract multiple suitors and ingratiate herself into a clan of vampires without becoming lunch?  And?  AND? Bella seems to say all the right things without even trying and makes friends very quickly.   Have teenagers actually become both smarter and nicer or is this truly a work of fiction?

Now I’m sure there are some Twilight purists out there who have read all the books and will insist one MUST read the book because the movie does not do the book justice.  Nathan actually read Twilight last year but I never followed suit until now.  I know reading the first book will inevitably lead to the sequels and I just don’t have that kind of time.  Last night, however, I finally gave up and read the first few pages of book one before my Advil PM kicked in.

All snark aside though, I think I’m going to like the series if only for what happens in Breaking Dawn.

Yeah, I peeked.  Damn Wikipedia.