History Headscratchers / Twilight

** True, but to be fair she probably sees a fight between a vampire and a werewolf like the fight at the end of ''Film/DarkShadows'': The werewolf had super strength and toughness but had never used them before and was promptly KO'd by a being with more super powers and centuries of experience. From Bella's POV no amount of practice could prepare Jacob to fight a vampire who could easily rip his limbs off.

** You can't choose your feelings. You should leave an abuser however obsessed you are with him, indeed, but being together with someone you don't feel anything more than friendship for, just because he is a practical choice, would only make you a calculating user. Not to mention Jacob eventually became just as an agressive jerk as Edward was.

* Edward is a telepath. He knows that James has decided to hunt Bella to the ends of the Earth until he kills her. There is no reasoning him out of it, no bargaining, no way to dissuade him. It's going to come down to hunting and killing. At this stage, he has two options. 1) Attack James, Victoria, and Laurent immediately and take advantage of 7-3 odds. You have four heavy hitters on your team in the form of of Jasper with his emotional manipulation to lull the enemies into stupor, Alice's ability to predict the future, Emmett's strength, and your own telepathy. Maybe you know that Laurent won't fight, so even better. The odds are not 7-2. Or you could 2) Split up your own forces in a hopeless attempt to delay James and lead him on a merry goose chase, send Bella out with a reduced contingent and hope James doesn't see through your ruse and ambush Bella's protectors somehow. Edward goes with option 2. What's wrong with option 1 again?

*** Hey, FreudWasRight.

* Why does the text treat Bella's shielding powers as the trump card that lets them win against the Volturi? On the side of the Cullens in that confrontation are Zafrina, a RealityWarper master of illusions that could blind and incapacitate every member of the Voluturi, and Benjamin, who is the [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Goddamned Avatar]], and casually thought about weaponizing ''fault lines!''

** Alice's power works based on what someone decides to do. Since Alice seems to be basically a slave to her powers, she'd obviously do whatever it is she'd see. So, clearly, when she decided to go into the diner, it was because her powers showed her making the [[AustinPowers decohnoI'vegonecross-eyed]]. Less amusingly, Alice would have gone into that diner for other reasons, non-future vision-related reasons, and would have met up with Jasper anyway.

** I don't think they actually ran out of blood. Bella was still chugging down blood when her equivalent of "the water broke" happened, and wound up spilling her cup on the couch. It was just that they had little left, and I'm not sure what they were thinking - that she might need some after the cesarian or something? - but at least it effectively got Carlisle and Esme out of the house in time for Edward to dazzle us with his elite surgery skills. Most likely the whole thing was just a way to add drama, since Carlisle would never have done a Rosalie and tried to eat Bella while performing the surgery.

*** Alice's situation is a bit complicated. [[note]]Alice was alive in the early 1900's. As a child she had premonitions, but usually stayed quiet about them. At one point she had a strong feeling that something bad would happen to a friend of hers, but they were ignored. If I remember correctly, the child ended up dying. Another, similar, incident happened, and she was eventually labled a "witch" and "changeling" by the townspeople. One day, she had a vision that her mother would die, and her father chose to ignore it. It happened, and her father got remarried. After another vision, Alice realized that her father killed her mother in order to be with Alice's step mom, and the two were currently planning to kill Alice. Alice ran to the local authorities and reported her father and step mom, but unfortunately her father had already had her labled as mentally disturbed. Her father had her put into a mental asylum. While at the asylum, Alice was subjected to "shock therapy" and other "cures", which eventually caused her to have amnesia. A vampire happened to work at the asylum and realized that Alice was not crazy, but a legit psychic. He became her friend while attempting to help her use her powers. Eventually Alice had a vision of James coming after her, him having smelt her blood only moments before her vision. The vampire friend bit Alice to protect her, and went to distract James. Alice woke up and her first vision was of her and Jasper joining the Cullen family.[[/note]] Basically, she had a vision after waking up from the changing process, and it was of her and Jasper living a happy life with the Cullen's. She found Jasper as soon as possible, and then they went to find their new family together. I got the impression that the intensity of the visions and hope of having a good life overrided her thirst.

*** That situation was because [[MarySue Bella's]] blood was overwhelmingly attractive to him to the point he stopped thinking rationally. As for Carlisle, there's this wonderful thing called forgery, fake credentials, etc. and he's got enough money to buy people's silence and skills. We already know that Alice has a contact who specialises in creating new identities for people; with enough money Carisle can buy enough documentation to show he's as skilled as he is (and he probably does go for more education to keep his skills up to date).

*** He's naturally a hunter, and you're still dodging the issue that his was a one-off occurance for him. As for Carlisle, the forged documenation only refers to his identity along with documentation to back up whatever level of skill he wants to pass as. What makes you think he always goes to Harvard instead of just going to new unniversities? And he got his reputation through his work, he didn't buy that. He just bought the credentials to get the work to begin with. And again you're not counting the fact that A) Charsile is incredibly wealthy, B) he's made a lot of contacts over his long lifetime, C) he's a doctor in a small-town, and D) people with less money and skill have managed to pull off similar forgeries. All he has to do is spend enough money to buy records and the right's people's words (or just save their lives) and he can get in.

** First off; Edward killed people he thought deserved it. A far cry from innocent people, and even then he eventually came to hate doing it. Was he indifferent to people dying because of Victoria? ...who knows? It's never brought up, he was more focused on MarySue and her safety. Again with Charlise, yes he probably has people who knows he's not normal. He doesn't seem oppossed to the idea at all; he doesn't bat an eye at Bella knowing that he and his family are vampires, and he doesn't care when Bella's father finds out about it to.

* I don't get the rules of imprinting: Sam imprinted on Emily at first eye contact after a long time [[spoiler (assuming he met her before as his then-girlfriend's cousin)]], Jared imprinted on a girl in his class after randomly looking at her for the millionth time, but Jacob imprinted with a foetus even BEFORE eye contact was needed? He said it himself that Renesmee was the reason why he and Bella couldn't keep away from each other before the birth!

*** We don't need to hear about the sperm thing anymore, it's already been adressed further up. Anyway, my theory is that he would imprint on a female only (since it's around to futher the species); futhermore it could only be an imprinting on the eggs (as said above). However, to elaborate on that point, it could be he wanted those eggs in his gene pool, meaning he wants to either impregnate the eggs directly, or through the child that came from one. If he imprinted on the eggs then he wouldn't imprint on Bella, but would on Renesme (or whatever her name is).

** I also tough it was kind of ''funny'' that Jacob originally talks about imprinting with disgust and disdain but then, when it comes time for him to imprint on Bella and Edwards perfect, wondrous, miracle baby he's not only totally ok with it, but completely willing and enthusiastic. I guess, since Renesmee inherited MarySue genes from both parents, Jacob had no choice but to love her, the internal logic of the story would not have allowed it to be otherwise.

* Why would vampires need to be beautiful ''at all''? They're immortal, invulnerable, faster, stronger, and have better senses than and special powers. They're also often active in darkness. Vampires wouldn't need to be beautiful in order to catch prey or to reproduce, as an ugly vampire could certainly use that plethora of special powers to kill or turn humans just as well as the beautiful vampires, although he'd need a different prey-catching strategy than the Volturi's "[[DistractedByTheSexy send a leggy female vamp to lure tourists into the Evil Lair of Doom]]". So why did vampires evolve beauty? They don't need it!

* So Bella gets stiff-arm pushed by Edward into some glass and cuts damages her brachial nerve, and Carlisle sews her up and gives her morphine from his kitchen...WHAT?!?! One: Carlile apparently has a full surgical kit and all the tools necessary to remove broken glass from a gaping wound, repair slashed arteries, sew up the wound and disinfect and wrap it. And all these tools, coming out of an old-fashioned doctor's bag, are completely sterile? This is complex surgery and would require a team of doctors and nurses working together in ER conditions HOURS to complete. Two: This is illegal. Even if we grant that he's walking around with thousands of dollars of high end surgical equipment, he can't take drugs out of the hospital. Morphine and pharmaceutical painkillers and sedatives are tightly and strictly monitored to prevent doctors from dipping into their own supplies or starting up a side business as drug dealers. If anyone ever found out he was doing this, he would be blacklisted and never allowed to practice medicine again, not to mention a sudden problem with the DEA. Three: There is no mention of him wearing gloves. Four: Bella looks at Carlisle's face to avoid looking at her gushing wound...but Carlilse's face would have to be inches from her wound while he digs around to get the broken glass out, wouldn't it?

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** She moved to Forks out of being emotionally abandoned by her mother over her new hubby. How long is she allowed to take to get over that? She was in a bad moment of her like when we meet her. Give her some credit she at least wasn't doing drugs or cutting herself to ease the pain just whining in her head to no one in particular but us.
** It's ether because she's so full of herself that she thinks she deserves a perfect life and wont be happy until she gets it, because she's pretentious and thinks that never being happy makes her deep and complex, or because Meyer was aiming to make her interesting by making her "tortured" but, having forgotten what tortured means and not wanting to waste time looking it up in the dictionary, missed and hit "whiny and pretentious" instead.

* WHY IS BELLA NEVER PLEASED? She moves to a town where everyone loves her despite her not lifting a finger to make friends, her father gives her a car as soon as she gets there and does little to no effort to controle her, letting her be completely independant and doing whatever she wants. Every single boy in town is so IN LUV with her. I get that she is a MarySue, but why is she so whiny and unhappy? Why can't she live without her boyfriend? She can't stop complaining about her friends not being OMG-So-Perfect, about Jessica talking so much, about Lauren for just existing! And about her father being lame!

Be sure to check out StephenieMeyer's [[http://www.twilightlexicon.com/2007/02/09/the-q-a-from-the-february-2007-byu-symposium/ 2007 Q and A]] for answers to common questions.