Twilight Stuffs
Apr. 15th, 2011 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isabelladangeloI got the Twilight Illustrated Guide the other day and I've been reading it almost none stop. I'm slightly disappointed in some cases and highly intrigued in others. Alice's story makes a bit more sense now. Although, I still have no idea why the mental hospital would give her shock treatment in 1919. That wasn't a common practice until the 1930s. Before that, it was used for seizures or catatonics but very, very rarely. It certainly wasn't something that would be used in Mississippi!
Jane and Alec's story...makes less sense. A lot less. It always seemed to me in the books that Carlisle didn't know them -only of them. Jane was a "new" name -a diminutive of Joan- starting in the 1500's. According the Stephenie Meyer, both are from some English village in the 800's. :-/ Now, granted, they could have changed their names over the years -she mentions a few other Vampire's that do that but uh... yeah. And they could make people feel pain or nothing as toddlers? Some vampire same them? Probably not.
Also, for someone "sitting still" for a long part of the centuries, Aro certainly traveled a lot before the Modern Era. He physically went to go get them as they were being burned. Just... a lot that doesn't make sense with those two.
The other part that is bugging me is Stephenie's description of the Children of the Moon. She describes them as having strong forearms, standing upright, with thumbs. Ummm...then how the heck could Caius even begin to mistake the wolves around the Cullens as werewolves? Wouldn't he think it was some giant domesticated wolf instead? After all, the traditional werewolves and the Cullen wolves look nothing alike and Caius may have been militaristic but he wasn't an idiot. That *really* bugs me because, at least with Jane and Alec's "issues" you can explain them away. This....the only explanation is that Caius is a total idiot.
There are other parts where she just doesn't get life correct for the time period. Read up on Victoria for a lot of weirdness. She seems to do okay with 20th Century history -even 19th Century -but before that? Yeah, no. I half think of sending her a long, long letter.... Unfortunately, there isn't an email address. I'm guessing just sending it to her publisher?
Jane and Alec's story...makes less sense. A lot less. It always seemed to me in the books that Carlisle didn't know them -only of them. Jane was a "new" name -a diminutive of Joan- starting in the 1500's. According the Stephenie Meyer, both are from some English village in the 800's. :-/ Now, granted, they could have changed their names over the years -she mentions a few other Vampire's that do that but uh... yeah. And they could make people feel pain or nothing as toddlers? Some vampire same them? Probably not.
Also, for someone "sitting still" for a long part of the centuries, Aro certainly traveled a lot before the Modern Era. He physically went to go get them as they were being burned. Just... a lot that doesn't make sense with those two.
The other part that is bugging me is Stephenie's description of the Children of the Moon. She describes them as having strong forearms, standing upright, with thumbs. Ummm...then how the heck could Caius even begin to mistake the wolves around the Cullens as werewolves? Wouldn't he think it was some giant domesticated wolf instead? After all, the traditional werewolves and the Cullen wolves look nothing alike and Caius may have been militaristic but he wasn't an idiot. That *really* bugs me because, at least with Jane and Alec's "issues" you can explain them away. This....the only explanation is that Caius is a total idiot.
There are other parts where she just doesn't get life correct for the time period. Read up on Victoria for a lot of weirdness. She seems to do okay with 20th Century history -even 19th Century -but before that? Yeah, no. I half think of sending her a long, long letter.... Unfortunately, there isn't an email address. I'm guessing just sending it to her publisher?