Now, before I begin, I have to admit that I am what I like to call a "guilty pleasure" Twilight fan. I enjoyed the books, I enjoy the movies. They serve as a good escape, but I also realize the storyline doesn't have much depth to it, and it really is mindless entertainment.
My friend had a quote posted as her Facebook status yesterday that I think is great.
"Harry Potter is all about confronting fears, finding
inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity… Twilight is
about how important it is to have a boyfriend."
Okay, so Twilight isn't ONLY about having a boyfriend. I definitely think that it says something about changing who you are for someone else and the consequences of your choices. Granted, Bella does change who she is in a sense, and I'm a big fan of staying true to yourself, not being someone you are not. My friend Jenn gave us a fascinating analysis of Twilight/True Blood/the vampire-supernatural phenomenon, but I can't do it justice here. But, like I said, Twilight is a good guilty pleasure series...I still don't think that 9 year olds should be reading it, and Twi-Moms scare the snot out of me...I also realize that Edward and Jacob are fictional characters (which I think Twi-Moms and Twi-hards can forget sometimes).
My big thing is, people need to realize that Harry Potter and Twilight are two COMPLETELY different stories. You CAN'T really compare their stories and say that one is better than the other because of the completely different story lines, settings, characters, etc.
Other than that, here are my thoughts.
Harry Potter is also a very IN DEPTH story...otherwise it wouldn't take 7 books or 8 movies to cover. Twilight? 4 books...which for someone ridiculous reason they're making into 5 movies. Don't even get me started on the whole split-Breaking-Dawn-into-two-movies business. It ticks me off. Also, Twilight doesn't have it's own theme park...it doesn't have people dressing ALL OUT for midnight shows like Harry Potter does...it has a smaller demographic audience (mostly women)...and it hasn't been around as long...I also don't see any Twilight movie trailers eliciting the response that the Deathly Hallows trailer spawned, and I don't see it becoming the pop culture phenomenon that Harry Potter has become.
As I said before, you can't FAIRLY compare the two series. But I still stand by my claim that Harry Potter wins over Twilight any day.
As I said before, you can't FAIRLY compare the two series. But I still stand by my claim that Harry Potter wins over Twilight any day.
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