Ever Wonder How Twilight Works?


The Oatmeal has provided the answer to this burning question in its hilarious guide to "How Twilight Works"

The author (that's you Stephanie Meyer) creates a cipher character with no real discernible characteristics (that's you Bella aka Pants), which allows thirteen year old girls to project themselves into the cipher character's shoes (much like Carol Clover saw the Final Girl as a way for teenage boys to assume the victim position, but nowhere near that smart).

Enter Edward, or as the Oatmeal labels him the "He-man/Jesus Christ" who worships the whiny cipher/reader and is worshiped in return and you get thousands of screaming Twihards who eat this stuff up. Witness the madness.

Comments

  1. forestofthedeadNovember 25, 2009 at 2:29 PM

    Very thought provoking. Great post.

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  2. Monster ScholarNovember 25, 2009 at 2:35 PM

    Thanks forestofthedead

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  3. Cie CheesemeisterNovember 25, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    At last, an explanation for the madness!

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  4. Monster ScholarNovember 25, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    Cheesemeister I though they were slipping crack into the books

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  5. ZedWordNovember 27, 2009 at 9:02 AM

    The formula forgets a heavy mix of old-fashioned gender stereoypes. It's that I find most egregious.

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  6. Pax RomanoNovember 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM

    Having no knowledge of the Twilight books or movies, I will take what is stated here as fact.

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  7. Monster ScholarDecember 2, 2009 at 8:17 AM

    Haha! thanks Pax your ignorance is bliss that I envy.

    Zedword,
    I hate the fact that Bella puts to shame every final girl of horror with her her constant need to be saved by supernatural man boys.

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