Okay, so yesterday was Sex and the City day, and today is shhh,
Twilight, day.
I got Eclipse from Redbox yesterday and today, I watched all three movies. Just because I had nothing better to do. So yeah, I will try to keep my Twilight opinions on mute, because I could write a whole blog about everything that I think is good and bad about Twilight. (As you can most likely assume, I could write a lot more
bad than
good about the series and movies.) So we just won't go there. I will respond only to the quizzes I post. Thankfully, Blogthings only has two Twilight quizzes, so this won't take long.
Before I get into that though, I would like to make a few (additional) disclaimers. I think that the movies are superior to the books and that the third movie is better than the first two. That's all I will say about that at this point in time. Onwards!
Your Dream Guy is Edward
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You are a true romantic, and for you, love is a very emotional and passionate thing.
You want to be wooed, charmed, and even seduced. You have old fashioned ideas about romance.
You don't mind being with a protective guy like Edward, as long as he has your best interests at heart.
You like being taken care of completely, even if things get a little intense at times.
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This shocked me. I expected to get Jacob, mainly because I think he is the lesser of two evils in the Twilight series. (I refuse to call it a "saga" because it's only 4 books. Get over yourself Stephanie Meyer.) Mike Newton is the way to go, in my opinion. But back to the results.
Though I expected to get Jacob, the results do sound like me. At least for a little while. Yes, I would consider myself a true romantic and love is very emotion and passionate, or it should be. I do want to be wooed, charmed and even seduced, though I would argue that Bella does more of the seduction than Edward. He just looks pretty and is always not around at the right moment. While I wouldn't say I have old fashioned ideas about romance, I have old fashioned ideals, which is what compels be towards Edward in this sense. However, like Carrie from Sex and the City, I think that romance, for better or for worse, is dead. I wish it weren't, but there's a reason you call it "old fashioned".
But that's as far as I can go with this result. This whole "protective guy" thing doesn't appeal to me, especially with the "your best interest at heart" tagged on. What does he know about my best interest? What about what I want? It should be up to me, and me alone to decide what I do with my life. However, that's the irony of this notion that Edward just wants to protect Bella. If he really wanted to protect her, he never would have gotten close to her in the first place. He should have known that being in any sort of relationship with her would make it impossible for him to break off the relationship without hurting her, one way or another. He says it himself, he is the "perfect predator". Sure, he make me talking about hunting, in the sense of him eating her, but he still consumes her through his love for her and the love she feels for him. Bella loses herself to love for Edward, and that is certainly not in her best interest. She ends up married at 18 with a baby, which I'm pretty sure she never even thought she wanted for herself.
And about being protected, I think that we all want to be protected. But it's less about protection and more about security. I know I want someone that I feel safe with, in more way than one. Obviously I don't want to worry about someone or something hurting me, but I also want to feel like the life that I create with another person will be stable and will stand the test of time. It's more about emotional safety than physical safety, and the emotional safety that Edward provides for Bella is as helpful as a fort made out of blankets. And this whole intense stuff? Intense does not begin to describe Edward's actions that he defends as "protection". It's obsessive and abusive. So while I can see what this quiz says I should belong with Edward, I'm not so sure about that. I like to think that I'm stronger than Bella, mainly because I have a personality, but I would hope that if I were to be involved with an "Edward" that I would be able to take care of myself, at least from him.
PS Edward is definitely NOT my dream guy. Get real.
Next!
You Are Alice
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You are sweet, optimistic, and caring. You treat everyone well.
You are more intuitive than most people, and at times, it feels like you can predict the future.
You are a lighthearted and a lot of fun. You're often the first to celebrate.
You have a weakness for beautiful things. You are definitely a fashionista.
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I really didn't know what to expect from this one, because I really don't identify with any of the characters in Twilight. But all of this makes sense to me. Except for predicting the future. That's just obnoxious. I hate when quizzes try to attribute the most ridiculous aspects of a character to you when you get that character as your result. No one can predict the future. And Alice is one of the few characters who is actually somewhat rounded out. She's definitely more developed than Bella, which is a shame. But my point is that Alice has enough characteristics that you don't need to be able to predict the future like she can to be like her. And since no one
can predict the future, why include it? That's just an online quiz pet peeve of mine. Like when I took all of those
Which SATC
Girl Are You? quizzes yesterday and every time you saw something about cheating on a boyfriend and really, really regretting it, that it was a Carrie answer. Or better yet, if a question on one of those quizzes would have been "What color is your hair?" Red, Blonde, Dark Brown, or Light Brown with highlights, you would know who you're gonna be. And hair color is such a superficial trait that if it is the deciding factor of the outcome, why have other questions like "What would you like to do for a career?" Basically, what I'm saying is that I hope I've proved my point and I can stop talking about this because honestly, I'm losing my train of thought and I'm going to stop. Now.
