In Which Bella is A SuperVampire
Of course.
Bella wakes up as a vampire. This is done well enough. She gives a good description of what it feels like to breathe and touch and the smells and sounds around her. Edward and Alice and Jacob are there as she tries to get accustomed to her new body. Ed stares. She's distracted by the senses around her.
It's all good except for one thing. She's supposed to be starving, a human-hunting killing machine with a singular focus and super-vampire strength. Carlisle points out that he's shocked by her composure. You know what? HE SHOULD BE.
It's another lie by Meyer. Another long setup and another let down. It means that either Bella is (again) some kind of unique animal that we have no possible reason to empathize with or everybody has been exaggerating the risk. It doesn't matter which it is, Meyer has once again dropped the ball.
Oddly, Bella lies about how horrible the transformation was. I have no clue why. Who is she protecting? Who is she trying to lie TO?
Carlisle says she should be hungry and she suddenly is. She's distracted by her appearance in a mirror, though, which Alice insists on showing her. Guess whether she's astonishingly beautiful or not. Go on.
They finally go back to the idea of being hungry and so they take Bella hunting.
SumUp: Not Good
Of course she's super beautiful. Of course she's composed. None of the rules of this or any universe apply to Bella. She's special. She's unique. She can do whatever Meyer wants her to do without worrying about such silly concepts as consistency or characterization or maintaining the illusion. Those things don't make good stories, Mary-Sue protagonists who never really have to do anything, that's what makes a great story (end sarcasm).
I bet she doesn't kill anyone while they're hunting.
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