Top Ten Reasons Twilight is greater than WoT

[Vertex 23]

Twilight's actually quite a lot like WoT. Instead of Aes Sedai, there are Vampires, and instead of fighting against evil, they fight for love. Love is pretty much the same in both series, it's unexplainable and sudden with little reasoning. It just happens and the characters have no choice but to make the best of it. But however much they are alike, Twilight has several advantages:

 

 

1. Twilight is much better written. I don't know if “show, don't tell” is a recent guideline for writers or doesn't apply to hardcore fantasy but in WoT, the reader is told what happens, not shown and left to drawn own conclusions.
   
2. Rand and his friends are chosen or born with gifts that make them special, instead of becoming special from the way they are characterized. There are special traits in Twilight as well but they aren't powerful enough to define the character.
   
3. RJ loves his women. All of them are fantastic. Steph loves some of her boys in the same way but since Twilight is written in first person, it simply makes Bella into boys. If you are gonna do 3rd person, you have to keep the 3rd person distance to the characters.
   
4. High ideals making characters act unreasonable is a problem in both series but in Twilight, the emotions behind the high ideals are explained, not just defined as, “No fair hitting girlies”.
   
5. And speaking of women and ideals, magic in WoT is split between the sexes. I donno why RJ wrote it like that, but I can only assume he thought boy and girl brains are fundamentally different and that girls are made soft and caring while boys are hard and proud. Twilight was about to do the same thing with only male werewolves but then Leah was added, so Steph's off the hook.
   
6. One good thing about WoT are all the different cultures...especially since they are practically defined (and illustrated) by their different acceptance of nudity. But Twilight is set in the real world and neatly describes real places and people, which is even neater.
   
7. Wot rambles a whole lot and in the later books thet plot has almost reached a standstill. Twilight keeps its pace up and Bella gets pregnant and has a baby and things progress.
   
8. Vampire-ism could translate back to the real world as an addiction to drugs, which are payed for by abusing others through robbery or prostitution or crime. The expression “Blood money” comes to mind. But one dark evil that wants to destroy everything for no real reason doesn't make sense unless you are lots of right-wing and believe beating up homesexuals and such is fighting the devil.
   
9. Twilight has real issues with healthy relationships. See http://kar3ning.livejournal.com/545639.html but on the other hand, so does WoT....
   
10. And finally, Twilight is sooo much more successful and gets movies and tons and tons of trinkets for fans.
    

 

And so, Marie has agreed to open a sub section on this forum dedicated to Twilight!

[Kaitlin 22]

So, are you Team Edward?

 

It is the sparkles that hooked you. Admit it.

[Vertex 23]

Noway, he's stalking and speeding, and I have no bad-boy complex. Even if he sparkles. I wonder if sparkly-ness can be compared to Aes Sedai age-less-ness.

[Kaitlin 22]

They might be comparable if you need sunglasses to look at them both.

 

So, which Team?

[Vertex 23]

*squirms* I don't think you are staying on the subject very well.

[Kaitlin 22]

*sobs* I can't talk about Twilight because I never read it. *pounces* I bet it is Team Werewolf People.

[Vertex 23]

I'm not into Team Jacob either! And you really have to read them now that they are gonna be part of this forum, or you won't be able to moderate all moderately.

[Kaitlin 22]

You tricky, evil Demon Vertex!

 

Jan can read them. :>

[jan 14]

*evil cackle* Vertex's secret is out: he has read Twilight!

[Vertex 23]

Well! You've read WoT and that's even more shameful!

[Sivart Reborn 7]

I.... tried to read Twilight a long time ago. Does that count?

[Marie 73]

I find Twilight to be a blight on literature. I started reading the first book and couldn't make it, it was so boring. And it only gets worse! Bella brings whole new meaning to the term Mary Sue.

 

And don't get me started on the birth scene.

[jan 14]

I did finish the first book. Somehow. Subsequently, I've tried to lose the book accidentally-on-purpose by leaving it in different places, but people always return it to me. This time I stuck it in my girlfriend's bookshelf. Let's see if she finds it.

[Kaitlin 22]

I don't know if we need tags, but whatever.

What is it with the werewolf bonding himself to a baby?

I keep hearing about that. It sounds so creepy and pedo.

[jan 14]

It is creepy and paedo... and there's this angle of child grooming. Ugh.