Saturday, February 7, 2009

The right man for you?

Are you tried of going out with boring guys? Well then Edward is for you! However I'm here to say the unheard, Edward is completely overrated and unrealistic! Meyer's use of Edward astounds me! She's like Disney fabricating life. She creates a character that no mortal guy can compete with. I have a friend, who told me that his girlfriend compares every action to how Edward would have done it! Which brings the point that girls are in love with the fictional character, which in tum makes us guys jealous of a non existent person! But I'm here to view past the haze of Edward loving, and say Edward is not the right man and he is more human then you think!! Meyer's story of love has constant allusions to Romeo and Juliet in which obviously you can figure who Bella and Edward represent! So the story starts off with romeo loving Rosaline then we he sees Juliet and falls in love again, and the rest is history. But what I'm bringing up is that Meyer's is using the teenage "I'm in love" to help relate to teens, in which we all know this love is unrealistic and untrue! Because of her representation of the comparison of Edward and Romeo makes Edward seem human and not the protector girls want! Both characters make ignorant mistakes, in which males tend to think with testosterone instead of logic i.e.( romeo killing Paris; Edward leaving Bella) again to show how Meyer's humanized Edward! In which, we see immature thinking, (in which i can refer to me as well *sigh* ) but in Edward's case he truly believes the best way to protect Bella, is leaving even though there were better suggestions being mentioned, but was being pig headed and goes with his brilliant plan Meyer's again refers to man's stereotype, lust. Meyer's symbolizes Bella's blood as what Romeo would describe Juliet's bosoms i.e( balcony scene in R&J; and when Edward sucks venom from James out of Bella's arm) so it is implied that Edward lusted for Bella because of her fragrance (blood scent) as how Romeo was succumbed by Juliet's beauty and hopes of "sex" (sorry was trying not to directly say it)

Sorry if the analysis wasn't very deep, but I'm sure that you get the basic understanding that Edward is weaker then you are lead to believe! I am by no means using this as propaganda for us guy mortals by trying to make the two equal, more of the fact, I'm showing you the light through the clouds of fantasy. I'm showing you the real man behind the "monster". So you don't think I'm just bashing team Edward, i will later do the same to team Jacob! :)

-Zach

30 comments:

Anonymous said...

u have a good mind!!!

i can agree with u totally
edward is a FICTIONAL character

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

its 7AM so i only skimmed it but some thing stuck out

1) girls don't always want a protector. edward is too overprotective as it is.
2) jacob owns. i dont know what you could possibly fault him with :)
3) r&j 1996 version is super

-nyera

Hallie Marie said...

I completely want someone OTHER than Edward, actually. Edward is so immature, so selfish... so perfect. I want someone who's mistakes I CAN correct, or at least comfort him about. >:(

Anonymous said...

I SO AGREE OMGDZ

edward is way too unrealistic

therefore, JACOB ROCKS (:

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

i only skimmed it too... but I agree that he isn't perfect. and i don't really want him. i want someone who treats me the way he does bella. he is fictional and its a story. guys are always better in stories because they dont suck at life in stories.
caroline

soccer_vampire said...

you know i agree with you. and girls really shouldn't be comparing every little thing done. i'm a girl and i really think thats a stupid thing to do. oh and i'm not critizing or anythign i just noticed this, romeo killed tybalt not paris =p sorry i just notice this=)Jacobs love for Bella is more realistic and you can see that if Edward truly didn't exsist like he shouldn't then she and Jacob would have been together happily. I may be on Edwards team but thats only cause I haven been obssesed with vamps since i was 5. If i were to look at it completely objectivley then Edward is even more unrealistic than he already is. SO in all i competely agree with you=) (sorry for my ranting)

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

romeo killed both. i think the line is like
"they fight; Paris falls"

Anonymous said...

Wth I didn't know everyone here,was team
Jacob :( lol
Yea sorry I meant tybalt! *sigh*
Sorry that was so long I was very tired so I kind of ramboled (spelling)

Anonymous said...

Whoa, u can right a essay about this, Zach!
But i agree with you. Some girls need to realize that Edward IS a fictional character and nobody u will ever meet will be exactly like that (i think most have already established that thought tho). Also, the fact of over protectiveness, well from reading Midnight Sun (or 264 pages of it), i kinda get y Edward is like that.He doesn't think like we do cause he's not like us, unlike Jacob, who relates to humans much more, since he IS half human. So i understand Edward, even if i think he needs to loosen up a bit.
I love both Edward and Jacob, but i (and other girls may feel the same), think that MY Edward would have be good mix of Jacob, Edward, and of course Emmett.
Who's with me???

Anonymous said...

Sorry, but this comment has nothing to do with the post.
i was just wondering if anybody knows wen the Official Guide will be released. Or has it not been mentioned yet?

Anonymous said...

Awesome blog.I love twilight.

Anonymous said...

okay Asil that was a ginormous comment!!! commenting means righting A FEW WORDS...not an ESSAY. so just wanted to tell Zach that I totally understand his point of view and..btw I LOVE HAVING A GUY ON THE PODCAST!!!!
what? it just feels different... :D
Nuha

Anonymous said...

lol, i know Nuha, i just felt like i have to express my opinion. Anywazzz ur right about having a guy on the podcast. its cool to their pont of view. Thanks Zach.

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

Nuha,
I write essays all of the time. is that a problem? my comments are like paragraphs longer than everyone elses.

and nyera is right:romeo does kill both paris and tybalt. and everyone here is NOT team jacob. at least not me. so you can write paragraphs about edward still if you want. i think that neither of them are realistic and that i dont really care that they aren't. if they were real it would be worse because i couldnt have them and they were real... and if you don't hold men to a higher standard, why would they even try? you have to have sky high standards and then when they come up short accept it and know that they tried (or if they didn't get rid of them) thats how i do my comparing... not that i know any boys to compare with. o dear.

caroline

p.s. is the 96 version of r&j the one with leonardo?? if it is, yummy.

Anonymous said...

i totally 100% agree with everything Caroline just said.

Anonymous said...

oh god. why does every guy think that just because we like a fictional character that they have to go and "compete" over him? Its a phase and the phase will die out. boys, just RELAX.

Anonymous said...

do you people realize that the whole point of this podcast is to compare??? its what makes it go on and seem interesting so whoever is teeling ppl to chill, listen to this....CHILL
aaaah...life is good =D

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

i think the second to last anonymous meant to say that real boys shouldnt be afraid of being compared to edward.

obviously we compare edward and jacob, edward and romeo etc.

Stacie said...

yeah we are girls we compare pretty much everything to something else lol. But seriously though speaking about r&j the old old version with like leonard whiting is absolutely delicious. Like it is a beautiful telling of the story! RENT IT!! If you havent seen it of course :)

But yeah guys don't have to compare themselves to Edward, i mean he is sweet and awesome but he is not a real person. I think if a guy really has a girlfriend and she is telling him to act like edward, well then i think she might be a little crazy. I mean i freakin love Edward and the story like with all my heart but if i had a boyfriend i wouldn't be telling him to suck and bite my wrist and constantly jump through my window and save my life lol.

So gentlemen, no need to start comparing yourselves to edward, we like you how you are :).

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

ooo Stacie, we watched the one with leonardo whiting in school. i think thats the '68 version? i'm pretty sure we went nuts for tybalt because we decided romeo looked too much like zac efron.

i like leonardo dicaprio better haha, even if '96 is kind of wierd.

Stacie said...

hahaha yeah you probably did watch it in school, that's where i first saw it. HAHA omg he actually does now that i think about it.

yea i do like leo a little bit more, the 96 version is weird, but it's that good kind of weird lol.

Anonymous said...

well yes, guys are very testrone based, and its kinda of hard hearing girls saying there dream boyfriend is edward! i heard it this summer from my ex, so yea guys compete!

Anonymous said...

hmm i saw the r&j were they all were in tights lol so ever since i read the story i want to name my daughter juliet.. hahahaha i don't know why..

Stacie said...

Ouch Zach that's rough that she said that to you. I think it is ridiculous if someone says they want you to be like edward.

Oh and maybe you want to name your daughter Juliet because she is such a sweet character lol except for the fact she kills herself. But the tights remind me of peter pan definitely :)

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

girls who do that are nuts. they need a dose of reality.

awe thats sorta kinda sweet. i want to name my first girl Lily. or maybe Lillian.

but as of now, i'm brainstorming names for my future car :) ideas anybody?

--n

Anonymous said...

well the name depends on the car, the color etc.. whats your car like?

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

NAME IT ZACH MERRICK!!! THEN AMY WHINEHOUSE WILL HAVE A FELLOW MUSICIAN IN THE PARKING LOT!!! NYNY IS GETTING A BLUE CHEVYY. she might name it cheva... jk.
p.s. my car's name is amy whinehouse. it fits... its a bright blue civic and smells like weed. it def fits.
heres a picture of what it looks like (except mine is a lot dirtier)
http://www.2carpros.com/makes/images/civic_si_sedan_blue.jpg
Caroline

Stacie said...

hahah oh my god good name for a car lol the weed smell kind of fits too because of the amy whinehouse thing too. i like that car though it's cute!!! i have an impala named blu lol not very original i know :p

Bite Me: A Twilight Podcast said...

i havent actually seen it yet, but its a blue chevy :)

caroline, i already named my guitar MERRICK. i cant name my car after zack, too.
zackypants hahahahaha.

ok awkward, zacK and zacH are 2 different people...

Anonymous said...

k.. i dont feel the posts since my eyes r killing me.. i can c invisible lines on the white after reading in black background so sorii.. (^^")

im a team edward person but i was in his team because he was hot.. xDD they other things just appealed to me... xD
every girl fantasizes more than half the time (that includes me.. xD watching anime makes u do that.. xD)

okay.. nyers.. name ur car Seth.... blue chevy and seth in my imagination is kind of a colour blue-ish/or torquise..