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		<title>New Moon t-shirts: Are you fanatic enough?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:24:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica J. Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a sneak peak at Nordstrom's "Twilight" line]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you like Twilight enough to wear the apparel, then weâ€™re hoping youâ€™re under the age of 15. </p>
<p>If youâ€™re not, well, we wonâ€™t judge you (OK, maybe just a little bit).  </p>
<p>But, we all have embarrassing clothes shoved in the back of our closet &#8212; acid wash jeans, an old JTT t-shirt, maybe even a rogue pair of overalls. </p>
<p>In the spirit of â€œwhatever floats your boat,â€ check out these New Moon tees, celebrating the new flick.</p>

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<p>Show off your &#8220;Team Edward&#8221; or &#8220;Team Jacob&#8221; pride, because we know you 20-something Miss Blast Readers (and your moms) are really excited for these.</p>
<p>The shirts are available exclusively at <a href="http://nordstrom.com">Nordstrom.com</a> on October 1 and in stores October 15. </p>
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		<title>Twilight: The Video Game in development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eddie Makuch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seeking a more interactive take on Edward and Bella? Read this.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>[UPDATE]</strong> Or not, as <a href="http://kotaku.com/5325197/is-there-really-a-twilight-mmo" target="_blank">Luke Plunkett of Kotaku</a> points out. It&#8217;s a game being worked on for free, with no financial backing from the people who own the Twilight name. A fan made MMO, huh?</p>
<p>If Bella, Edward, and all the other hot undead from the Twilight book and movie series haven&#8217;t filled that vampire void of yours, enter Twilight: The Video Game, a recently announced digital endeavor hoping to complete the trifecta (book, movie, video game) recipe that other successful franchises (Harry Potter) have nailed so well.</p>
<p>We really don&#8217;t know much on the project as of yet, as the game&#8217;s website launched today, complete with, well, not too much. What we do know however is that the game will &#8220;allow players to immerse themselves into a deeper form of storytelling and adventure, gaining a deeper understanding of the Twilight saga&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Sounds cool, but it gets better when the description lists the words &#8220;open&#8221; and &#8220;non-linear,&#8221; thus possibly proclaiming a deeper level to the game. But really, those are just words, until we get a hands-on we truly won&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>Furthermore, you&#8217;ll be able to experience the story through the perspectives of your most &#8220;beloved characters.&#8221; Who you love is up to you, but if I could get into Bella&#8217;s head (or pants), I&#8217;d be a happy dude.</p>
<p>Finally, both the Cullen household and Charlie&#8217;s house will serve as the games&#8217; main hubs of activity and you&#8217;ll be able to deck out the interiors in any way you see fit.</p>
<p>The game&#8217;s description leaves us on somewhat of a cryptic note saying, &#8220;create your own character and play in multiplayer as a human, vampire, or werewolf.&#8221; Multiplayer? Like I shoot you, you shoot me multiplayer? Or social, MMO-type multiplayer? We have <strong>so </strong>many questions! For now, why don&#8217;t you go ahead and speculate, it&#8217;s all the rage.</p>
<p>When we learn more on this developing project we&#8217;ll be damn sure to send every last ounce of information your way, but for now, let us know in the comments what you hope for out of this Twilight game.</p>
<p><a title="Twilight The Video Game" href="http://twilightthevideogame.com/" target="_blank">Twilight The Video Game</a></p>
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		<title>Three new New Moon stills</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 14:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are still six long months until &#8220;New Moon&#8221; hits theaters, but with a big weekend for the film at the MTV Movie Awards and only two months until the undoubted &#8220;New Moon&#8221; panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Summit is pumping out some new photos for Twilight fans to lust after.
Take a look below, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are still six long months until &#8220;New Moon&#8221; hits theaters, but with a big weekend for the film at the MTV Movie Awards and only two months until the undoubted &#8220;New Moon&#8221; panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Summit is pumping out some new photos for Twilight fans to lust after.</p>
<p>Take a look below, and <strong>tell us what you think!</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_15120" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/nm-edward.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-15120" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/nm-edward-300x199.jpg" alt="Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) share an intimate moment" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) share an intimate moment</p></div>
<div id="attachment_15121" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/nm-laurent.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-15121" src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/nm-laurent-300x199.jpg" alt="Laurent (Edi Gathegi) threatens Bella (Kristen Stewart) before the werewolves come and rescue her" width="300" height="199" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Laurent (Edi Gathegi) threatens Bella (Kristen Stewart) before the werewolves come and rescue her</p></div>
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		<title>New Moon poster revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["It looks so much better than the robo-chrome arm constipatedward 'Twilight' promos."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the words of Blast&#8217;s Twilight aficionado Liz McClendon, &#8220;It looks so much better than the robo-chrome arm constipatedward &#8216;Twilight&#8217; promos.&#8221; <strong>Tell us what you think below!</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/new_moon_teaser.jpg"><img src="http://blastmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/new_moon_teaser-202x300.jpg" alt="new_moon_teaser" title="new_moon_teaser" width="202" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14366" /></a></p>
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		<title>Blast interviews Twilight star Robert Pattinson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blast got a brief opportunity to chat with "Twilight" leading man Robert Pattinson before the fan meet and greet and question and answer session at the Square One Mall in Saugus, Mass. on Friday.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>SAUGUS, Mass. &#8212; Blast got an opportunity to chat with &#8220;Twilight&#8221; leading man Robert Pattinson before the fan meet and greet and question and answer session at the Square One Mall in Saugus, Mass.Â on November 14. </em></p>
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<p><strong>BLAST: Where you prepared for the fact that there were going to be mobs at your last two events and they&#8217;d have to get shut down?</strong></p>
<p>RP: No, not at all. It&#8217;s not even the last two anymore, it&#8217;s been all of them.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>Since Comic-con. I was at Comic-con, and I remember when you came out there were just cheers.</strong></p>
<p>RP: It hasn&#8217;t died down at all. It happened in [Italy], it happened in Mexico. It&#8217;s completely ridiculous.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>What do people at home think about it? Are your parents laughing, thinking you&#8217;re the new George Clooney?</strong></p>
<p>RP: Well my sister was. She was just thinking, &#8220;Oh, what road did you take?&#8221; They think it&#8217;s like completely ridiculous.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>Have you talked to anyone else who&#8217;s on tour, like Kristen or Taylor or anyone?</strong></p>
<p>RP: I haven&#8217;t actually. Do you how they&#8217;re doing? [laughter]</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>They have not had the same response that you&#8217;ve had. That&#8217;s why I was asking. Are they-</strong></p>
<p>RP: Are they what? Are they pissed off? [laughter] Um, I don&#8217;t know. I haven&#8217;t actually asked them.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>The movie&#8217;s coming out in less than a week. Is there anything that you&#8217;d go back and change about it? Or prepare for it to come out?</strong></p>
<p>RP: No, I wouldn&#8217;t change anything about it. I mean, if I was doing it now, knowing it was going to be this audience, I think I probably would have done it differently. I&#8217;m not sure how. But I think, at the end of the day, it&#8217;s a good thing I went into it thinking it&#8217;s a small thing because it essentially is. It&#8217;s a small story, it&#8217;s an intimate story, and I think it comes across as being very human rather than being a big epic thing, which I think no one would have really appreciated. I think it looked very organic when you look at it. I hope people aren&#8217;t expecting to be like some like, &#8220;Waah!&#8221; like some like huge, you know, &#8220;E.T.&#8221; thing, because it&#8217;s really not. It seems very personal. The book is very personal. Hopefully, hopefully, you know, it will live up to its hype.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>In previous interviews, you [and Kristen] said that producers said, &#8220;Don&#8217;t take it so seriously, make it more of a teen flick.&#8221; Did you guys make it more of a serious movie or is it going to end up being more of a [teen movie]?</strong></p>
<p>RP: I think the fans of the book would be kind of upset if it was too too serious, because it&#8217;s not exactly &#8220;War and Peace&#8221; or something. I mean, it&#8217;s funny. I had Catherine give me a copy of the book with all the instances where Edward smiles and jokes and stuff. They were all highlighted, because I was so determined to make him like the most depressing character in the history of fiction. I think that&#8217;s the point. You don&#8217;t know how something is coming out, you don&#8217;t get in the edit room or whatever. So no, it&#8217;s good how it turned out. I think the beginning is how I wanted it to be, and I think it&#8217;s better. No girl would ever think the perfect guy would be some kind of manic-depressive.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>Depends on the girl.</strong></p>
<p>RP: Well yeah. If I was a girl, I&#8217;d love it. I love manic-depressive girls. But you know, I don&#8217;t really.</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>Are you prepared for the girls out there to be like, &#8220;Rob, will you go to prom with me?&#8221; because I&#8217;ve had a couple say that&#8217;s what they&#8217;re planning on asking.</strong></p>
<p>RP: When is prom?</p>
<p><strong>BLAST: </strong><strong>May? Something?</strong></p>
<p>RP: Well, that&#8217;s quite a long way off.</p>
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		<title>Six chapters in&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sachin Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book just gets better and better.  Edward is confusing the hell out of me so far, which is the intent I suppose.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This book just gets better and better.Â  Edward is confusing the hell out of me so far, which is the intent I suppose.</p>
<p>The love story between them is pretty classic, but the way they interact is something you usually see in movies, not read about.Â  They have this unreal connection.</p>
<p>Bella is obviously attracted to Edward like no one before, Edward seems attracted and also like he&#8217;s playing with her at the same time.Â  The way he keeps warning her to stay away from him, and then flipping it around and acting all charming would have any one confused.</p>
<p>One moment shes mesmerized by him, the next she&#8217;s frustrated and annoyed by him.Â  She&#8217;s also ridiculously accident prone.</p>
<p>Also, if I didn&#8217;t know he was a vampire I wouldn&#8217;t get that whole connection between him ditching the blood type Biology class, that kind of sucked since I knew why, but was cool at the same time.</p>
<p>I have a weird feeling something is going to happen on this beach trip to La Push, too.Â  I can&#8217;t wait to read about their trip to Seattle together.</p>
<p>Oh, and now that she&#8217;s started dreaming about him her obsession is only going to get worse.Â  It&#8217;s weird how Edward seems to know how everyone is feeling all the time.Â  That whole &#8216;I&#8217;m good at reading people&#8217; thing is so bull, that boy is up to something.</p>
<p>Regardless of all the cool stuff that&#8217;s happened so far, I can&#8217;t wait for the blood sucking/vampire stuff to start.</p>
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		<title>After two chapters&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sachin Seth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book is awesome!  Granted I've only read two chapters, but so far, I'm as confounded by Edward's behavior as Bella is.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This book is awesome!Â  Granted I&#8217;ve only read two chapters, but so far, I&#8217;m as confounded by Edward&#8217;s behavior as Bella is.</p>
<p>First of all, as a reader you can tell Bella is a lot better looking than she thinks she is.Â  She talks about how pale she is and stuff but it&#8217;s just a feeling I have as a reader.</p>
<p>Meyer is a really basic writer, which I like, nothing too extravagant, just a good story to pull the reader in.Â  Very classic.</p>
<p>First of all, that preface really threw me off, it was so unexpected and for that reason, a great way to start the novel.</p>
<p>The first conversation between Edward and Bella was really strange, but interesting.Â  I&#8217;m trying to figure out why he&#8217;s so interested in her, and why he all of sudden clenches his fists like that in class.Â  And how he is such a biology wiz.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m excited to read more conversations between the two.</p>
<p>The only reason I stopped reading the book was because I had to do some homework and write articles for this site.Â  Thanks Blast.</p>
<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m going to read a lot more tonight and come back tomorrow.Â  I&#8217;m excited.Â  I can&#8217;t wait for the vampire part.</p>
<p>By the way, thanks to Lauren who posted a comment on my last post.Â  I totally agree with her when she says you look past all the simplicities of the novel and get totally lost in the story.Â  This coming from someone who has only read two chapters.</p>
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		<title>Midnight Sun: leaked, unfinished and glorious</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 30, Stephenie Meyer posted a notice on her official website saying that someone close to her who she had given an early draft of her upcoming novel, "Midnight Sun," had leaked it onto the internet. After reading the draft of "Midnight Sun" that was posted, I only have three words for Ms. Meyer: Please finish it.]]></description>
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<p>On August 30, Stephenie Meyer posted a notice on her <a href="http://www.stepheniemeyer.com">official website</a> saying that someone close to her who she had given an early draft of her upcoming novel, &#8220;Midnight Sun,&#8221; had leaked it onto the internet. &#8220;It has taken me a while to decide how and if I could respond. But to end the confusion, I&#8217;ve decided to make the draft available [on her website],&#8221; she said in her statement. &#8220;This way, my readers don&#8217;t have to feel they have to make a sacrifice to stay honest.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;So where does this leave Midnight Sun? My first feeling was that there was no way to continue,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;In any case, I feel too sad about what has happened to continue working on Midnight Sun, and so it is on hold indefinitely.&#8221;</p>
<p>After reading the draft of &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; that was <a href="/files/midnightsun_partialdraft2.pdf">posted</a>, I only have three words for Ms. Meyer: Please finish it.</p>
<p>For those readers who are not familiar with the concept of the novel, &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; is a rewrite of Meyer&#8217;s first novel, &#8220;Twilight,&#8221; from its hero&#8217;s perspective: Edward instead of Bella. She has even said before that, once she started writing &#8220;Midnight Sun,&#8221; she realized that she should have told the story from Edward&#8217;s perspective all along. She was right.</p>
<p>What made &#8220;Twilight&#8221; so interesting was the dynamic between Edward and Bella. Edward was torn between his &#8220;wants&#8221; for Bella; he was in love with her, and yet he wanted to kill her. In &#8220;Twilight,&#8221; the reader got a confusing take on his confusion from Bella. She was unsure of his emotions and reactions towards her, and so were we. Did he want to kiss her or kill her? Was it lust or bloodlust?</p>
<p>&#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; clears those up. Finally, the enigma that is Edward begins to make sense. Sure, the novel remains about a third completed (the draft is only 264 pages long), but even only telling the story until the drive home after the tense Biology Movie Class Scene, so many puzzle pieces fell into place: What Edward did when he went North to escape Bella. Edward&#8217;s hand in Angela and Ben&#8217;s relationship. Edward&#8217;s real excuse for following Bella to Port Angeles. The extent of Edward&#8217;s love for Bella, and the explanation behind it.</p>
<p>Sure, Edward still is a creepy stalker who can&#8217;t get enough of watching Bella sleep, but it works because we have an explanation for it. Just like writing Bella&#8217;s pregnancy in &#8220;<a href="http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/culturefashion/2008/08/breaking-dawn-definitely-broke-something-my-heart/#comment-5166">Breaking Dawn</a>&#8221; from Jacob&#8217;s perspective led to some confusion and irritation over Bella&#8217;s motives for giving birth to what Jacob thought was a monster, writing &#8220;Twilight&#8221; from Bella&#8217;s perspective led to confusion and harsh claims against Edward&#8217;s character. Edward&#8217;s perspective is much more fun than it should be as it shows how he rediscovers his 17-year-old side after being trapped in the same body for almost a century. And that includes hormones.</p>
<p>While Edward&#8217;s voice is a lot more interesting than Bella&#8217;s (and significantly less annoying), &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; is still very much a chick read. I can&#8217;t see 14 to 21 year old boys going to a book store and wanting to swoon over Edward&#8217;s endless monologue about his love for Bella, but anyone who enjoyed the Twilight saga will definitely enjoy this installment.</p>
<p>The part of &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; that was the most fun was reading everyone&#8217;s minds (except Bella, of course) alongside Edward. Meyer is able to include scenes that Edward was unable to see by having him watch it from someone else&#8217;s perspective. It is fun to see how all the pieces that were missing from &#8220;Twilight&#8221; fall into place, and of course we don&#8217;t have the same frustration Edward has because if a reader wants to know how Bella is feeling, they can just flip to that scene in &#8220;Twilight.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is almost funny to see how Edward&#8217;s bias of Bella is almost as severe as Bella&#8217;s is of him. To Bella, Edward is the most attractive, perfect man in the realm of existence. To Edward, no one else can anywhere near compare to how delicate, pretty, and selfless Bella is. Seeing their views of one another makes it clearer that the &#8220;perfection&#8221; they find in each other is mostly their mutual love and a decent percentage exaggerated.</p>
<p>&#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; is nothing more than a companion piece; don&#8217;t think that you can just skip over the Twilight saga and just start from Edward&#8217;s perspective because there are a lot of missing details that were explained in previous books and did not need to be explained again. For example, Peter and Charlotte are introduced early on in &#8220;Midnight Sun,&#8221; while Bella did not know that they existed until &#8220;Eclipse.&#8221; &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221; is a fun way for Twilight fans to re-explore the universe that they had come to love in a new way, a way that will lead to many, many &#8220;Oh, well that makes more sense&#8221; moments.</p>
<p>So please, Stephanie, please finish writing &#8220;Midnight Sun.&#8221; After all, you can&#8217;t leave us hanging by not sharing The Meadow Scene from Edward&#8217;s perspective with us.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; definitely broke something&#8230; my heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Breaking Dawn" suffered from the same affliction its heroine did: blood no longer pulses through its veins.


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<p><strong>THERE ARE &#8220;BREAKING DAWN&#8221; SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW. IF YOU DO NOT WANT THE NOVEL TO BE RUINED FOR YOU, PLEASE STOP READING.</strong></p>
<p>There were certain things about &#8220;Twilight&#8221; and its sequels that made people love it. That made people say, ‘Hey, it may say it&#8217;s about vampires, but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s about the most amazing love story ever told.&#8217; There were certain aspects, like Bella&#8217;s relatability and her teenage confusions that made people of all ages adore her.</p>
<p>&#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; doesn&#8217;t tell that story.</p>
<p>There are mentions of Bella&#8217;s high school friends, and a handful of them even appear for a dialogue-less scene in the first 50 pages of the book, but they, like any anchor to the feel of the earlier novels, seem to disappear in the opening scenes. &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; is a vampire novel in a series that really wasn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>When you go to hunt down a copy of Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s final installment to her (definitely going to be) on-going vampire saga, don&#8217;t worry about not having finished its second and third episodes; &#8220;New Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Eclipse&#8221;. Meyer once stated that &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; was going to be very similar to her original and unpublished sequel to &#8220;Twilight&#8221;; &#8220;Forever Dawn&#8221;, and she was right. The events of &#8220;New Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Eclipse&#8221; have barely a paragraph of relevance to the entire 754-page giant that is &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;.</p>
<p>It definitely draws one thing from its predecessors though, and that is the reader having to wait until the last 100 pages for a plot to appear. We saw this in &#8220;Twilight&#8221;, but the 400 pages of Bella and Edward falling in love was totally worth only the last fifth of the book being about the nomads. (Besides, there were two more books after that to finish off their story). In &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;, it takes until page 360 for anything exciting to occur, until page 543 for a plot to emerge, and until page 679 for the battle scene that never actually happens. Oh, and then they live happily ever after.</p>
<p>With &#8220;Twilight&#8221;, I didn&#8217;t realize I was almost done with the book and nothing had happened because I cared. Bella and Edward? Amazing! Their chemistry and their passion and their confusion&#8230; I gobbled it up. Obviously. The biggest problem with &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; is how hard it was to care about the characters that we all fell in love with.</p>
<p>The first and foremost (and previously mentioned) reason is that Bella is no longer a relatable character. She is 18 and she gets married. And then has a baby. And then becomes a vampire. I am 19. I am not married, nor pregnant, nor a vampire.</p>
<p>Therefore, I cannot empathize with Bella in Book 2 of &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; (from Jacob&#8217;s perspective) when we watch Bella slowly killing herself while everyone sits around and watches her be a stubborn idiot. There are literally 200 pages of this! Bella has made decisions in previous installments that are hard to wrap the mind around, but at least then the story is from Bella&#8217;s perspective so the reader is slightly biased. But having to watch Bella make more seemingly stupid decisions from someone (Jacob) who sees them also as being stupid decisions&#8230; let&#8217;s just say I know quite a few people who put the book down then.</p>
<p>The driving force behind the success of the Twilight series is the relationship between Bella and Edward. It is beautiful &#8211; perfect in its imperfections. &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; should have been the culmination of these feelings, but it wasn&#8217;t; its second big mistake. Here was Meyer&#8217;s perfect opportunity to have everything be perfect. We have a wedding, a honeymoon, and a baby.</p>
<p>The wedding was cute, but didn&#8217;t have much depth. There is some sign of the undeniable happiness between Edward and Bella as they both got the unbreakable union they so deeply craved for but it still felt like it was lacking. It seemed like Meyer was just racing through it until she could get to&#8230;</p>
<p>The honeymoon started off perfect. Bella and Edward, for lack of a better term, did it. Finally. But, of course, there is a problem. Although the passion is of course, breathtaking, Edwards, um, strength, leaves bruises all over Bella, which ruins his mood and makes him the emo-for-a-lame-reason-Edward that we have all learned to love. But even the honeymoon zips by as&#8230;</p>
<p>Bella discovers she is pregnant!</p>
<p>And then it&#8217;s Jacob being miserable, watching Bella make stupid decisions. This has been mentioned above, and then (we are half way through the book now), Jacob imprints and Bella has her baby/becomes a vampire.</p>
<p>Bella becoming a vampire was the surprising high point of the novel. She seems to be meant to be a vampire, which sort of explains why she has always been on the ‘AM&#8217; frequency. And, luckily for us all, her desire for Edward is greater than before, so we get treated to a few steamy scenes that had been missing during the first half of the novel. They still felt a little lackluster, though; Bella didn&#8217;t faint.</p>
<p>Oh, and her baby is adorable, but that&#8217;s for you the reader to discover.</p>
<p>The connection between Edward and Bella has always been deep; so deep, in fact, that the reader can feel its pulsing life throughout the entirety of the novels. &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; suffered from the same affliction its heroine did: blood no longer pulses through its veins.</p>
<p>Another let-down is the hype of Team Edward versus Team Jacob. There was no fight. Jacob imprinted (which we all knew had to happen regardless), but then it was like poof &#8211; there was never another mention of Jacob&#8217;s two-and-a-half-books long unquenchable and unchangeable love for Bella. Come <em>on</em>, Stephenie Meyer.</p>
<p>Finally a plot emerges involving the only sort-of enemies from the previous two (ignored) books, the Volturi. There is way too much about vampires here, and in some parts I felt I was reading an Ann Rice fiction novel instead of one of Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s fluffy young adult romances. Things get interesting for a bit, and then &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; ends the way it had to. Happily.</p>
<p>Part of the problem is that Meyer seems to have had a switch in focus as to who her favorite person is, much like Bella does. It&#8217;s no longer all about how perfect Edward is, but rather how amazing Bella and Edward&#8217;s daughter, Renesmee, is. It can only be assumed that the implied sequels-from-other-perspectives (excluding &#8220;Midnight Sun&#8221;, which is &#8220;Twilight&#8221; from Edward&#8217;s perspective) will be about her. There was way too much set up about her future to be ignored.</p>
<p>I too was convinced that Bella and Edward&#8217;s story is old news. The problem was, I was convinced that a little more than half way through &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;. This was supposed to be their grand, final chapter, but if anything it was the worst of the entire series.</p>
<p>The amount of a letdown that &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; was slightly overshadowed the fact that there were good parts to the book as well. Bella and Edward finally can be happy together. The angst is over. The love is complete. That was heart-warming.</p>
<p>And &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; was a good book, it&#8217;s just that something better was expected. Something amazing. Something that took my breath away.</p>
<p>In the end, &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; felt kind of like a muffin bottom. You don&#8217;t really want to eat it because you know it doesn&#8217;t taste as good as the muffin top, but you know if you don&#8217;t just finish it you&#8217;re going to stay hungry for a long, long time.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Twilight series moments</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are some of the greatest moments of Stephenie Meyer's series. If you have not yet read "Breaking Dawn", the fourth novel in the series, and do not want to read any spoilers, please do not continue reading this. If not, enjoy!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are some of the greatest moments of Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s series. If you have not yet read &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;, the fourth novel in the series, <strong>and do not want to read any spoilers</strong>, please do not continue reading this. If not, enjoy!</p>
<p>10 &#8211; <strong>The end</strong> of &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">&#8220;&#8216;We have plenty of time to work on it,&#8217; I reminded him.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘Forever and forever and forever,&#8217; he murmured.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘That sounds exactly right to me.&#8217;</p>
<p style="30px;">And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">9 -<strong> Bella and Edward&#8217;s first ever kiss </strong>from &#8220;Twilight&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t breathe.</p>
<p style="30px;">He hesitated &#8211; not in the normal way, the human way.</p>
<p style="30px;">Not the way a man might hesitate before he kissed a woman, to gauge her reaction, to see how he would be received. Perhaps he would hesitate to prolong the moment, that ideal moment of anticipation, sometimes better than the kiss itself.</p>
<p style="30px;">Edward hesitated to test himself, to see if this was safe, to make sure he was still in control of his need.</p>
<p style="30px;">And then his cold, marble lips pressed very softly against mine.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">8 &#8211; <strong>Jacob imprints</strong> from &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My jerking came to a stop; heat flooded through me, stronger than before, but it was a new kind of heat &#8211; not a burning.</p>
<p style="30px;">It was a glowing.</p>
<p style="30px;">Everything inside me came undone as I stared at the tiny porcelain face of the half-vampire, half-human baby. [...] The gravity of the earth no longer tied me to the place where I stood.</p>
<p style="30px;">It was the baby girl in the blond vampire&#8217;s arms that held me here now.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">7 &#8211; <strong>The cliff jump</strong> in &#8220;New Moon&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I smiled and raised my arms straight out, as if I were going to dive, lifting my face into the rain. But it was too ingrained from years of swimming at the public pool &#8211; feet first, first time. I leaned forward, crouching to get more spring&#8230;</p>
<p style="30px;">And I flung myself from the cliff.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">6 &#8211; <strong>Bella first sees Edward </strong>in &#8220;Twilight&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was there, sitting in the lunchroom, trying to make conversation with seven curious strangers, that I first saw them.</p>
<p style="30px;">They were sitting in the corner of the cafeteria, as far away from where I sat as possible in the long room. There were five of them. [...] The last was lanky, less bulky, with untidy, bronze-colored hair. He was more boyish than the others, who looked like they could be in college, or even teachers here rather than students.</p>
<p style="30px;">[...]&#8216;That&#8217;s Edward. He&#8217;s gorgeous, of course, but don&#8217;t waste your time. He doesn&#8217;t date. Apparently none of the girls here are good-looking enough for him.&#8217; She sniffed, a clear case of sour grapes. I wondered when he&#8217;d turned her down.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">5 -<strong> The wedding</strong> from &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize I was crying until it was time to say the binding words.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘I do,&#8217; I managed to choke out in a nearly unintelligible whisper, blinking my eyes clear so I could see his face.</p>
<p style="30px;">When it was his turn to speak, the words rang clear and victorious.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘I do,&#8217; he vowed.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">4 -<strong> Bella&#8217;s first kiss with Edward as a vampire</strong> in &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It was like he&#8217;d never kissed me &#8211; like this was our first kiss. And in truth, he&#8217;d never kissed me this way before.</p>
<p style="30px;">It almost made me feel guilty. Surely I was in breach of the contract. I couldn&#8217;t be allowed to have this, too.&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">3 -<strong> Bella punches Jacob</strong> in &#8220;Eclipse&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Finally, he let go of my face and leaned away.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘Are you done now?&#8217; I asked in an expressionless voice.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘Yes,&#8217; he sighed. He started to smile, closing his eyes.</p>
<p style="30px;">I pulled my arm back and then let it snap forward, punching him in the mouth with as much power as I could force out of my body.</p>
<p style="30px;">There was a crunching sound.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘Ow! <em>OW!&#8217; </em>I screamed, frantically hopping up and down in agony while I clutched my hand to my chest. It was broken, I could feel it.</p>
<p style="30px;">Jacob stared at me in shock. ‘Are you alright?&#8217;</p>
<p style="30px;">‘No, dammit! <em>You broke my hand!</em>&#8216;&#8221;</p>
<p style="30px;">2 &#8211; <strong>The meadow scene</strong> from &#8220;Twilight&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;Isabella.&#8217; He pronounced my full name carefully, then playfully ruffled my hair with his free hand. A shock ran through my body at his casual touch. ‘Bella, I couldn&#8217;t live with myself if I ever hurt you. You don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s tortured me.&#8217; [...] He lifted his glorious, agonized eyes to mine. ‘You are the most important thing to me now. The most important thing to me ever.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>1 &#8211; <strong>The tent scene</strong> from &#8220;Eclipse&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;<em>Please</em>!&#8217; Edward hissed. ‘Do you <em>mind</em>!&#8217;</p>
<p style="30px;">‘What?&#8217; Jacob whispered back, his tone surprised.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘Do you think you could <em>attempt </em>to control your thoughts?&#8217; Edward&#8217;s low whisper was furious.</p>
<p style="30px;">‘No one said you had to listen,&#8217; Jacob muttered, defiant, yet still embarrassed. ‘Get out of my head.&#8217;</p>
<p style="30px;">‘I wish I could. You have no idea how loud your little fantasies are. It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re shouting them at me.&#8217;</p>
<p style="30px;">&#8216;I&#8217;ll try to keep it down,&#8217; Jacob whispered sarcastically.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comic-con 2008: December will be shrouded in &#8216;Twilight&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year's San Diego Comic-con hosted a special event Thursday to promote the upcoming film. Meyer, director Catherine Hardwicke, and some of the movie's cast attended the panel. Waiting anxiously for them were thousands of screaming fans, though only about 6,500 were admitted to the hall.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SAN DIEGO &#8212; It was 10 o&#8217;clock Wednesday night and the San Diego Convention Center had just closed down the Comic-con festivities for the night, and yet mothers were setting up sleeping bags on the sidewalk as their daughters settled under blankets, snacking on chips.</p>
<p>When asked what they could possibly be waiting for outside the entrance to the convention center&#8217;s massive Hall H entrance, the reply was unanimous.</p>
<p>&#8220;Twilight.&#8221;</p>
<p>They would wait 16 more hours.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Twilight&#8221; was released in 2005, and has spawned two sequels: &#8220;New Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Eclipse.&#8221; Collectively, the series has sold more than 5.5 million copies worldwide.</p>
<p>Taylor Lautner, who plays the character Jacob Black in the upcoming movie adaptation of the books said, &#8220;The fans are the driving force behind this thing.&#8221;</p>
<p>The series tells the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan, who meets the intriguing yet elusive Edward Cullen upon her arrival at Forks, Wash. Edward, as well as the rest of his family, turn out to be a secret coven of vegetarian vampires; they don&#8217;t kill humans. Bella and Edward&#8217;s inevitable love is doomed from the beginning as her being a human draws various &#8220;bad&#8221; vampires to come and kill her. In &#8220;New Moon&#8221;, a second love interest is introduced in the form of Jacob, Bella&#8217;s best friend who just happens to be a werewolf.</p>
<p>For the August 2 release of  &#8220;Breaking Dawn,&#8221; Meyer&#8217;s fourth and final book in the series, distributors have printed more than 3.2 million copies; more than half the copies of the rest of the series now in print, and a record first-printing for &#8220;Twilight&#8221; publishing company Little, Brown and Company.</p>
<p>&#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221; will answer the big Twilight questions: Who will Bella choose, and will she become a vampire?</p>
<p>Meyer&#8217;s saga has become a cultural phenomenon, though this year is by far its biggest yet. In addition to the release of &#8220;Breaking Dawn&#8221;, a movie adaptation of the novel will be released December 12 starring Kristen Stewart as Bella and Robert Pattinson as Edward.</p>
<p>This year&#8217;s San Diego Comic-con hosted a special event Thursday to promote the upcoming film. Meyer, director Catherine Hardwicke, and some of the movie&#8217;s cast attended the panel. Waiting anxiously for them were thousands of screaming fans, though only about 6,500 were admitted to the hall.</p>
<p>&#8220;I saw the book as a film before I saw it as a book,&#8221; said Meyer of her excitement for the &#8220;Twilight&#8221; movie.</p>
<p>The Comic-con event was the first experience the cast had of the true intensity behind the &#8220;Twilight&#8221; fan base, and it was clear from their faces and the nervous hitch in their responses that none of them were prepared for the thousands of girls, women and even men who were screaming their hearts out for the characters that had captured their hearts.</p>
<p>&#8220;I fell in love with ["Twilight"] just like you guys did,&#8221; said Hardwicke to the audience. &#8220;I wanted to see Bella and Edward living, breathing. You know we tried to do the best we could [for the movie].&#8221;</p>
<p>Stewart said that, as a &#8220;sappy, sensitive girl&#8221;, she took the role of Bella to try to depict the &#8220;perfect-but-not-perfect-but-perfect-in-its-ideologicalness love&#8221; felt between Bella and Edward.</p>
<p>&#8220;Bella and I are really different if you get inside my head,&#8221; said Meyer, who said she gets just as frustrated with Bella&#8217;s decisions as the rest of her fans. &#8220;I&#8217;m actually a lot more like Edward.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meyer was able to confirm that a song by Muse; her favorite band and some of the inspiration behind the series, had been signed for the movie soundtrack, while Hardwicke confirmed that two songs written by Robert Pattinson will be included in the soundtrack of the movie, and that his spontaneous piano playing during filming might be used as Bella&#8217;s Lullaby.</p>
<p>The three &#8220;bad vampires&#8221; were a large part of the panel; Cam Gigandet as James, Rachelle Lefevre as Victoria and Edi Gathegi as Laurent.</p>
<p>&#8220;I wanted to be a part of [Bella's] world in every way I could,&#8221; said Lefevre. &#8220;If that meant I had to terrorize her than so be it.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://blastmagazine.com/entertainment/">Trailers</a> and clips of the film, especially the extended &#8220;ballet studio scene&#8221; aired at during the panel, show the movie version of &#8220;Twilight&#8221; focusing more on action than the novel did. This is good news for Gigandet, Lefevre and Gathegi because that means more screen time for them before their inevitable deaths. For Gigandet, his comes at the end of the first movie.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t actually die because you&#8217;re stuck with us on DVD forever,&#8221; joked Lefevre.</p>
<p>Fans have been initially hesitant about how the cast compares to the characters, and none have felt this sting more than now-&#8221;Twilight&#8221;-golden-boy Robert Pattinson.</p>
<p>&#8220;I just wanted to play [Edward] because he&#8217;s the hottest vampire in the world,&#8221; said Pattinson with a laugh, causing a deafening scream from the crown.</p>
<p>&#8220;[Vampires are hot] because that&#8217;s how I write them,&#8221; Meyer added, which turned the screaming into a deafening roar.</p>
<p>Although movie adaptations of &#8220;New Moon&#8221; and &#8220;Eclipse&#8221;, the second and third novels in the series, have not yet been confirmed, the idea that the &#8220;Twilight&#8221; fan base will not cause &#8220;Twilight&#8221; to be a box-office smash, regardless of the quality of the film, seems nearly impossible.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would love to be in [a sequel]. Love to,&#8221; said Gathegi .</p>
<p>&#8220;So would I,&#8221; said Gigandet wistfully.</p>
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		<title>Comic-con 2008: The Twilight movie will be amazing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no need to worry, Twilight fans.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SAN DIEGO &#8212; No need to worry, Twilight fans, the completed Ballet Studio Scene leaves nothing to be desired. The movie will indeed be amazing. There is nothing to fear.</p>
<p>More to come later, I promise.</p>
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		<title>Twilight trailer makes us thirst for more</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terri Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The teaser trailer tempted us, but the first full-length Twilight trailer creates an unquenchable desire for more.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The teaser trailer tempted us, but the first full-length Twilight trailer creates an unquenchable desire for more.</p>
<p>Released in 2005, Stephenie Meyer&#8217;s novel Twilight follows the story of 17-year-old Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) as she moves to the new town of Forks, Washington and unsuspectingly falls in love with vampire (Robert Pattinson). The third installment of teen series booted the last Harry Potter novel out of the number one spot on the New York Times best seller list three weeks after its release.</p>
<p>We will lovingly keep you up-to-date on the countdown to December 12 and the release of Twilight the movie. For now, enjoy this:   <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="512" height="323" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /><param name="flashVars" value="id=8858452&amp;vid=3119388&amp;lang=en-us&amp;intl=us&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A//us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/i/bcst/yahoomovies/3812/68410139.jpg&amp;embed=1" /><param name="src" value="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.7.1" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="512" height="323" src="http://d.yimg.com/static.video.yahoo.com/yep/YV_YEP.swf?ver=2.2.7.1" flashvars="id=8858452&amp;vid=3119388&amp;lang=en-us&amp;intl=us&amp;thumbUrl=http%3A//us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/i/bcst/yahoomovies/3812/68410139.jpg&amp;embed=1" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
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