Friday, 14th November 2008

Breaking Dawn

I finished the Twilight series. I read Breaking Dawn. Far too fast, of course, but it simply could not be helped, and I would have read it a lot faster if it hadn’t been too heavy and precious to take on the bus. It was awesome of course, as the others were awesome, though I must confess disappointment. As many of you know, my expectation of an epic series is that something big and scary and dramatic and violent and sad happens at the end. Well, it did, but not as I would have liked at all. Rather an anticlimax.

I can’t say any more without ruining it for people (ie teenage girls) who haven’t yet got there, so I won’t. Don’t go see the film Twilight, the casting of everyone except Alice and possibly Edward is absolutely appalling. Rosalie is brunette and the most tanned thing I’ve ever seen. Esme is not even exceptionally beautiful by human standards. Bella is dull and straight haired. Well the whole idea of trying to turn a book about supernaturally beautiful and graceful people into a film using human, flawed actors was obviously not going to be particularly successful, but they’ve done a spectacularly bad job here. Also, I’m assuming they will wreck the book through plot/dialogue etc, as they wrecked Northern Lights, Harry Potter, The Da Vinci Code and so many other amazing books.

This post probably sounds like I really hated Breaking Dawn. I didn’t, I loved it. But I hated the ending.