Newsflash: Oh My…
Tired of sitting around and waiting for your prince charming to come and present himself from where he’s lurking in the shadows? Well, have no fear, another distraction is here! Ladies and gentlemen of darkness we present to you more Twilight merchandise because what you have simply isn’t enough! For your enjoyment, and your enjoyment only (because we really aren’t making money off of this) we present to you: Twilight the video game!
All right, all sarcasm aside, I’m amazed. Amazed at the notion that economists and video game developers think that they can get a 7-figure profit margin from making a video game based off of the Twilight saga. I’ve never read Twilight, so I probably shouldn’t talk, but I have read numerous reviews and parodies as well as word of mouth reviews from people who’ve read it. I’m not going to be mean and say that, as a real writer, I can legitimately say it’s bull pucky, but knowing what I do about Twilight, I can say that there is way too much hype about a story that is illogical, unrealistic, and has sparked a new trope in the fictions "don’ts."
Why would people buy this stuff? I don’t understand some people’s obsessions. Though this could be true about anything. The biggest thing with something that gets popular, is how it is a model in how we live. I’m not saying that we should revere everything we read or everything that’s popular. I’m saying, if you’re not going to take it with a grain of salt, you might want to check out exactly what you’re getting. Specifically: relationship advice. I’m not so sure how we could take any good relationship advice from Twilight, but some people seem to think so. The author’s claims seem accurate, in a sense, but I have some problems with his arguments; mainly I dislike sweeping generalizations. The more I’m around the more I learn that an individual is and individual and to try and understand a person based on their gender will end up mostly wrong. Seems to me, this article is more accurate. There’s more wrong with their abusive, stalker relationship as well and even though I’m an egalitarian and not a feminist, I’m siding with their take on the issue.
My main point is this: since Twilight is so popular (enough at least to even consider making a video game out of it) then young people are getting the wrong message. It’s not a good work of fiction and it’s most definately not "a perfect relationship." Ugh.
Hopefully these children will grow up to be rational, intellegent adults. And that’s a genuine hope, not sarcasm. I really do hope the world is not as stupid as it seems to be. Or at least, we can be open minded enough to be smarter.
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