User blog comment:LunaBella/Twi-Hate/@comment-3201389-20100330062255

HATE is a disease of the spirit. A person's soul is blackened by their own sad deeds, and finally the only thing they can FEEL is hate.

The "anti"s hating on us, or us hating on them, accomplishes nothing. There is a way for people who don't like Twilight to express this fairly, and intelligently in forums where pro/con Twilight debate is welcomed. However, for some reason many of them feel the need to campaign their views by vandalizing this site. I absolutely can't STAND harry potter, and everything about it - but you won't find me trolling the HP wikia erasing pages & telling them all how stupid I think they are for being obsessed with it. This is because I DON'T THINK THEY'RE STUPID. (at least not for liking HP, I can't do anything about someone being stupid for other reasons lol)

If everyone liked the same things, thought the same things, said the same things, acted the same way, dressed the same way, etc. etc. - the world would suck, and life would be pointless. This goes with something I've said many times before - no, the Twilight series is not the most meticulously thought out story ever. No, the level of writing is definitely not up there with Anne Rice, Bram Stoker, or Brian Lumley. (btw, if you don't know of Brian Lumley, he completely rewrites the history of Vampires, and offers a scientific explanation for the creatures that is almost scary realistic) However, it's DIFFERENT! It's not the same old cookie-cutter vampire premise with the same old vampire characteristics that have become pretty cliché over the years. Different is better, and since I'm a romantic at heart, I can appreciate the hopelessly-lost-in-love aspect of the story.

I have to agree that the sparkly thing is very annoying, esp. since there is no explanation of why regular light doesn't make their skin sparkle. If their skin is prismatic, all light would refract off it & cause some degree of sparkle effect. If it were me, I would have used a slightly different plot device to convey the idea that while they are safe in sunlight, they would easily be recognized right away by humans. I think I probably would have written it so that direct, full spectrum solar radiation caused a visual effect with their skin which made it transparent, or possibly opaque. If you went opaque, that would explain why the myth exists that vampires burn in sunlight, & people would notice when your skin suddenly goes from pale white or even brown - to flat black. You could say that turning into a vampire polarized your skin cells, so that in sunlight, it was not just dark skin like pigment would do, but as if the light was not hitting it at all - like a pitch black shadow. You wouldn't be able to hide that, or explain it away. Or, imagine seeing all the muscles & veins underneath the skin as if the skin wasn't even there... I think people would tend to notice that as well. lol But, Twilight is not a horror series, so SM's intent wasn't to scare the crap out of ppl.

Is this comment long enough yet? huh... probably not, but I'm being beckoned into the other room by a hot blonde, so - I'll call it good for now. :P