T.04.25 Favor

In Which .... I just don't know.

Back at Vampire Manor the Cullens & crew start to plan Bella's future, except that Jacob has broken character and done something. Shockingly, he's found some motivation and spine and gone and told Charlie that Bella is right as rain, of a sort, and that he should come on back to the manor to see her.

Mad vampires everywhere. Charlie is on his way.

Oh, remember that "no telling humans" rule? He broke it by converting into a Werewolf right there in front of Charlie. Seems like a great plan to me. He then told Charlie that Bella had changed, but not into a wolf.

Charlie takes the "TMI" path on this. Really? As a parent, I can assure you that this is idiotic in the extreme. He just wants to see Bella and doesn't care about the details.

Why? Because Meyer is LAZY. Not just lazy, incredibly, mind-bogglingly lazy. This is a dodge, she doesn't want to write the argument, the fallout, the problems, the questions, the anger, the fear, the -emotions- and DRAMA that go into this. Unfortunately for HER, she's the author! She created this universe. She created this problem and should want to write the big blowup with daddy!

Buuuut no. What we get is Bella wearing contact lenses and taking "human lessons" to entertain Daddy. They're also worried that she'll want to bit charlie OR that Nessie will want to bite him. Lovely.

Charlie arrives

• He's upset at Carlisle for lying. He's not FURIOUS or murderous or livid, he's just upset.
• He notes Bella looks different. Which should be an understatement. He doesn't really want to know.
• Bella wants to eat him. Yeeeaaah.
• Charlie figures out that Bella is Reneseme's mother. Seriously. I don't know how, she -should- barely be pregnant. Even assuming Bella was pregnant at the wedding, she'd still only be somewhere in her second trimester. This assumes that she got pregnant and had the baby in secret before the wedding.
• Charlie is distracted by football on TV

Now I can accept that Charlie gets overwhelmed and just walks off, but this is clearly a "hey, College football" moment.


SumUP: Q

I can't possibly sum this up any further. It's idiotic. It's nonsense. It's purely Meyer sidestepping the plot. I hate you, Stephenie Meyer.