Thursday, February 18, 2010

My Issues with Twilight part 2

In this one I will look at my problems with the aspects of vampirism in Twilight.

The first thing is way vampirism is past from person to person. My problem is not with the fact that they will only change if the victim is left alive, it is with the delivery system. We are told by Alice that vampires have a venom that actually causes the change. once again this is not a problem. Having it described as a venom presents an interesting twist on the change. No my problem is that none of the vampires have fangs. Due to this lack of fangs we know that the venom is not injected therefor the only way it can be delivered is by saliva. This would mean that everytime Edward and Bella kissed she would risk getting poisoned and turning. And for all you naysayers that say no it can only be passed by blood remember at the end of the first book Edward sucked the venom out of Bella, an act that would have added more venom into her blood stream!!! That is like threating a snake bite by having another snake bite you.

Next I want to address the elephant in the room, the glittering in the sun. Now the only way I can figure that this works is that a vampire's core is so cold that what is being seen are actually ice crystals in the skin. Unfortantly for this to work it would mean that any direct light, be it from a flashlight, overhead projector, or even a nonflorecent lamp, would make the vampires glitter.

So what defence is there to these things? Leave a comment and let's see.

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