Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Twilight Year in Review

Before we start review 2008, it seems important to mention that on December 31, 2007, exactly one year ago, the idea for a website/podcast spawned from my head. *taps self on back* Oh yeah, Rob and Kristen were cast too.

January 2008 - Our email, forums and first episode were debuted in this month. Apparently we weren't into posting important stuff yet :)

February 2008 - Casting announcements for the movie were made on throughout this month.  I can't believe I didn't like Peter Facinelli at the time. I love that man.  Janella also became notorious for digging up set pics and side scripts on the Internet.

March 2008 - We had the most posts this month (44), mostly concerning pictures and too many interviews for me to handle. We also fell in love with Taylor Lautner when  he was cast as Jacob in this month. Stephenie Meyer posted an extra called Being Jacob Black which gave us some nice insight into his head. We should've known Jake's POV would pop up somewhere else (ahem BREAKING DAWN BOOK TWO WOOT WOOT)

April 2008 - I finally realized that Breaking Dawn WAS in fact the last book of the series. Midnight releases were planned and we got our first video interview with Taylor. MTV brought us numerous cast interviews, too. Twilight fans worldwide were outraged by The Bloated Toad. ("WTF?! IT DOESN'T EVEN SOUND ITALIAN!!")

May 2008 - The first promo pics and teaser trailer were released! The Host was also released and proved that Stephenie is capable of writing non-vamp books worth reading. Twilight Tuesdays became the best days of the week (especially on May 20th wink) A description of the Breaking Dawn cover and preface were leaked.

June 2008 - I spent the month studying and sleeping (only 16 posts haha). It was Edward's birthday and the Cullen Crest was born.

July 2008 - We reached 100,000 hits! Exciting days. The ghastly cover of Entertainment Weekly shocked us all. Scenes from the Penelope DVD were leaked on youtube and the two official trailers were released. Stephenie confused us with the quotes of the day about vampire bachelor parties and what not. The movie calendar was released and now they're out of print (grr). So much theorizing and spoilers in this month :)

August 2008 - Breaking Dawn was released and the mania that resulted was quite fun to read about! I fell in love with Seth and I think I converted to team Jacob. Twilight was pushed back to November 21 (because HP6 was moved to next July).  I remember reaching over 500 subscribers too! The generally good month was ruined with the leakage of Midnight Sun. UGH.

September 2008 - Rob was big this month. I also complained a lot. Paramore announced that they will be contributing to the soundtrack.

October 2008 - The extended trailer was released and tv spots were plentiful. Lots of merch was sold at Hot Topic. 

November 2008- Decode was released, and 8 minute scene was leaked, lots of spoilers and THE MOVIE WAS FINALLY RELEASED.  And Rob bit Tyra. 

December 2008 - Action figures yaaay! Catherine Hardewicke and Summit announced that there will be a new director for New Moon (Chris Weitz) which is scheduled to be released Novemer 2009.  Michael Copon ruined my life. The out of print calendars and postponing of the Official Guide added to my misery as well.

Nice to end the year on a high note, right!?! Tell me your top Twilight stories of 2008 in the comments! (and check below for business)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

year 2008 was awesome....
not onli cuz of twilight but other things..
nya nya nya nya nya nya nya

Anonymous said...

I totally agree. 2008 was amazing! maybe 2009 will live up to its standards... although... no twilight movie coming out in 2009

Anonymous said...

hey are you guys checking your email???

Anonymous said...

TAYLOR AS STAYING AS JACOB! THEIR IS A GOD!

Anonymous said...

i don't understand what is the appeal of Robert Pattinson (Edward); he has an unusually shaped nose