Z/Web

I’m not really into the Twilight series and this one started off horrible: it was incredibly boring, tedious, and I didn’t have a clue what was going on. Basically the girl’s vampire love splits on her, apparently because he loved her so much he didn’t want to see her hurt, so she goes into a deep depression and discovers that when her life is in jeopardy she can sense him. So to get closer to him and see him again, she starts risking her life with crazy stunts. The drama gets better when he mistakenly thinks she’s dead and decides to kill himself and she has to race to stop him. This whole mess is complicated by a second romance with another boy who turns out to be a werewolf. Werewolves hate vampires and thus she’s torn between two species. The special effects are extremely weak (the human-to-werewolf transformation is especially cheesy), the action is minimal, the conflict artificial and forced, and other than the love story, there isn’t much to this story. The real problem is that the love story doesn’t really come into play until the end: prior to that it’s just 90 minutes of walloping in a girl’s depression and self-pity, which makes me feel like shooting myself just to stop the pain. All that said, the later part, toward the end, did get more interesting, and I did like some of the vampire ideas and dilemmas presented, especially the concept that the girl is actually special as some of the vampire’s powers won’t work on her (no one knows why). This says to be the series is going somewhere, but I am still in awe of how this series manages to make exciting stuff like vampires so boring! It’s a real gift, that is.