Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn"- EW Interview Part 3

[stargonz]

rennesme was never wierd at all to me i dont get it, but, then agian my name it star so....

[yougottagetagimmick]

"I needed a name that nobody else has ever ever had."

There's a reason nobody else has ever had that name, Steph.

[EnglishRose719]

"Bella's character, there's so much to her" ROFL That's the most hilarious part of the whole interview!

[ShyeraxYukira]

I love how Stephenie Meyer says that Jake is just a dedicated father/brother because right now Renesme (gag) is so young. And yet moments before she says Renesme is an adult in a child's body. Inconsistency much?

[LeeLee198820]

@ShyeraxYukira y r u gaging

[DefineDelicate]

screw Imprinting!! forced/fake love. Jacob/Leah ftw!

[SanaLovesMahado1]

If she had a daughter, I would feel bad for the poor child. That horrid name.

As for the interview, she was so contradicting and sliding through everything. My god, shut up Meyer.

[LeeLee198820]

@SanaLovesMahado1 renesmee is a pretty unique name

[DynamoAqua82]

If you are big fan of Twilight you should take a look at Twilight Eclipse at OnlineTwilightEclipse[dot]tk I can`t stop thinking about this movie

[craftgirlof]

If Stephenie haden't pleased herself we wouldn't have the books.

[EnchantressLaina]

"Jacob and Nessie belong together." You know, as a proud supporter of Team Nessie, I fully agree. I don't like every direction the book takes, but I love Jessie! I love how happy she makes him, and it's simply adorable.

[YourOasis97]

i prefer nessie over leah and bella anyday. leah has issues and a bitch who would've fought jacob and she never got over sam, probably never will. and bella doesnt deserve him nor does he deserve her much less leah with all her problems. i think the main theme of this series is fate and jacob and nessie were fated i guess. so be it.

[Krisppyme33]

the whole imprinting deal just doesnt make any scense. they have no free will and love is given by free will. its stupid and she doesnt even explain it like alot of things in the book. so what if the book is fiction but it still needs to be logical and make scense.

[YourOasis97]

how is a fictional story supposed to make sense? lol also, love isnt made up of free will. its quite unexpected as she said. if you havent experienced something like it, you wouldnt know.

[Cee1912]

I'd like to make an argument about SM in what she said about planning the book in her head before it happend. I think its unwise. Writing itself is about feeling and thought, she said so herself in another interview that her characters make themselves, she just goes with the flow, but yet Jacob and Renesmee, it was always a done deal. She didn't let it flow, she made it be. She even said Jacob/Leah had a connection, but she ignored it because of her "plan." Smooth, SM, very smooth..

[YourOasis97]

i dont like leah for jacob. she has too many issues and never got over sam and her bitterness about it all. and i dont think she said that. then again, the audio quality is crappy.

[Mwells5237]

I hated the jacob imprinted because it felt like it wa ssuch a loose end tie up and such a weak device but over time I am getting used to it, but its still weird because Jacob becomes so different most o the time.

Forever Dawn was the original sequel to Twilight and all that happened in there but still. I like this interview.

[bitsyrulz1]

i really didn't like that jake and nessie ended up together, he should've been with leah and nessie should have been with the south american half vamp boy that shows up at the end.

[familyprayerhouse]

If two half-vampires half-human mate, they have a 50% chance of producing a FULL vampire baby. THAT would be a disaster. The baby and her parents would have to be killed to save the humans and keep the vampire secrets.

[AMYEEENICOLE]

@bitsyrulz1 it was never said that jacob ended up with renesmee because she still had 7 and a half years to grow up.. and edward said jacob would have competition with the other guy. so yeah.. she could still end up with the other guy thats what i hope for anyway..

[YourOasis97]

and leave jake unhappy?! i prefer she stays with him.

[VandyAM]

I'm confused... why is there controversy over the name Renesmee? I don't get it...?

[tman4lwh07]

um i had know idea their were such controversial topics in this book because when i read i just read it to enjoy it not think about it so intently i read the books to enjoy them not think about every little detail

[arp022794]

i love that jake imprinted on renesmee cuz i dont really know why it just makes seans

[hennaluv]

hold up. im still confused about whether the initial attraction with bella and jacob was because of nessie. i get that there was something funky going on when bella was carrying her...but wtf? she doesnt explain ANTHING! ugh.

[familyprayerhouse]

No, she saids that after Bella chooses Edward in Eclipse, she gets over Jacob. He feelings start back up in breaking dawn due to Nessie. It's a NEW attraction.

[YourOasis97]

what do you mean due to nessie and a new attraction? i didnt understand that part either. partly cos the audio quality is bad.

[TheRealBellaMSwan18]

"I knew that Jacob and Leah would end up together." Yet Jacob imprints on the vampire/human/crazy-ness devil child Nessi

[YourOasis97]

she didnt say that, she said it could've happened but it didnt. she just went with the flow and the flow was nessie, not a devil child. such hypocrisy. you love edward and bella but not nessie? psht.

[sophiejo]

I fucking LOVE this interviewer. She is totally skickin it to Stephenie. She's asking tough questions, and giving her no chance to bullshit her way through it because she is so knowlegeable.

"so um, you practically stole from the scarlett letter right"

Definitley my fave steph interviews-not because of her, but the interviewer.

[hennaluv]

haha. i soo googled all it al..and the interviewer has a point! shes plagiarised!!! looool

[YourOasis97]

she didnt plagiarise she said herself she didnt think about that.

[cornstar101]

hahaha im gonna look that up

[psychogirl0413]

i think leah and jake hould have gone together, forget that damn baby!

[cloudgirl105]

I KNOW! Like...a vampire/human and a werewolf..imagine what their kids would be like...

[Zealbourne]

they would be half werewolf quarter human and quarter vampire, Werevampman? or perhaps Weremanpire? Nm, they would be a Huwolfpire too many options ;)

[cloudgirl105]

They'd be man/bear/pig

[craftgirlof]

That would make a great book just about Nessie

[cornstar101]

hahahahahahahahaha!

that didnt even occur to me before!

[cornstar101]

i wouldve preferred that because

its just fucking weird that he imprints on renesmee. yeah i can imagine him saying one day "hey btw hun i was in love with and made out with your mom twice! oh yeah and i fantasized about her naked! thought you would like to know"

[cloudgirl105]

Gahaha that would suck ass...theres even a vid on Youtube I think if you type in "Twilight I kiss your mom..." theres a vid showing Jacob and Bella making out and stuff its HILARIOUS

[hennaluv]

yes! exactly. sm doesnt even want to talk about it...let alone explain it to the rest of us. the whole situation is bizarre. no other word for it. now if she explained it all...to justify it..then maybe i could be like..fair enough...

apparently it just "all makes sense."

WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN???!! for the love of god, explain it to me. lol

[sophiejo]

@psychogirl0413

That would have been the normal and appropriate way to end it. This woman went insane!

[EndangeredAngel]

After all the depressing love stories, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, etc, what's so effing wrong with a happy ending? I mean COME ON! God forbid, these characters actually get happy after all this crap that they go through. Gosh.

[meplusyouequalsx]

stephenie wrote the whole series keeping in mind that it should be how she wants it and how she's comfortable with it. this was before she even published it. it just so turns out people have liked it too. and if they liked the first 3, why not the 4th one? you can't say stephenie made the wrong choice in not thinking of what fans would want--how would she know what they want anyways?

and whats so bad about bella having everything in the end. she already went through hell. give 'her' a break.

[soccer16chick01]

I hate how she keeps saying her fans need to "get used to her writing." That's now how it works. If you're going to be a millionaire off books, at least make it what people WANT to read!

And Bella has nothing to her. She is a lenient doormat with no backbone who is apparently an "average looking" girl.

Meyer's grown way, way too arrogant about herself.

[MelissaRM19]

First of all, have you ever heard of spell check? Is English your first language?

Secondly, you are nothing in the grand scheme of things. She is the author. She is the reason Twilight exists. Respect it.

She loves her fans, and Bella, too, enough to have given us a happy ending. The series could have ended with Bella dieing and Edward killing himself or something, and there is nothing we could have done about it.

That's what it all comes down to. People don't accept happy endings anymore.

[soccer16chick01]

She's the one putting herself out there and making millions of dollars off of it. If she can't deal with the fact that not everyone's going to worship the ground she walks on (because she is a TERRIBLE author) she is in the wrong profession.

I like happy endings. But love takes SACRIFICE. Bella got /everything/. She gets her parents, her child, her husband, her family, becames a vampire AND gets her best friend without having to give up anything.

And pray tell, what's wrong with my English?

[xdestinee619x]

i agree with you.

except i think what melissaRM19 meant about your spelling error was this

"That's now how it works." i think you meant not. but thats just one typo and not even a big deal. but yeah i agree, we paid 30 dollars for the book so we dont have to like it.

[soccer16chick01]

Ah, thanks :) And yes, that's what I meant.

Well, that was a stupid comment on her part... As spell check wouldn't catch a now/not difference. Oh well.

[soccer16chick01]

Also, I would just like to mention that my post, according to the latest version of Word has NO spelling errors.

YOURS does.

Funny, how you waste your time correcting mine and not correcting people with no grammar and no English skills, so long as they agree with you.

Also, why on earth should I respect it JUST because she wrote it? I paid for it, I'm forming an opinion and it's bad enough that I'm spouting that opinion. Grow up.

[steffi88]

Well, I happen to find her style of writing very refreshing and her phrasings, beautiful. To each their own I suppose.

But here is my two cents: with half of the world hate Twilight saga and the second half adore it, it's only natural for SM to think that, 'well at least I got something right if I can stir such responds from people.'

I agree that Bella got everything in the end, but to me, it was not without a huge sacrifice on her part. She had risked /everything/ to gain the whole package.

[steffi88]

She put her life in mortal danger to carry a child when she could have very well died and the fact that vampires can't have kids wouldn't matter anymore.

She put Renesmee and Jacob's safety above hers, the husband she loved sometimes much too much, and the rest of her family.

Making peace that she would most likely died in the battle, that she wouldnt get eternity to spend with Edward and that she would still face the Volturi for the sake of her loved ones classifies as sacrifice to me.

[steffi88]

Bella finally has her happily ever after, which wont be free of occassional conflicts and unhappy events, and I am happy for her too.

The fact that the book ends with a warm and fuzzy happy ending, well, I take it to symbolize hope and possibility of getting the happiness you always wanted.

It sent the positive message that you dont always have to lose it all.

[steffi88]

IMO, killing off major characters or that in order to get something you gotta lose something else is becoming ridiculously cliche and -dare i say it- a safe method authors nowadays tend to end their books with.

Taking words from atonement, I'd say that "it isn't weakness or evasion, but a final act of kindness, SM gave them their happiness" =)

[craftgirlof]

I loved it! And agree with you completely, Thanks for the insight.

[craftgirlof]

And don't we wish life was always like that!

[craftgirlof]

100 %

[craftgirlof]

Absolutely! And look at the sacrifice Bella went through just being with Edward with the way he first treated her and the pain she suffered in the fight scene both mental and physical. Right on SM

[YourOasis97]

i dont think she said we have to like it. she said she hoped people will eventually accept it if not, oh well. in the end, she pleased herself and didnt expect to make millions off it. whats wrong with pleasing yourself? give her a break. besides it was all planned before even the first one was published.

[nimmie54]

I understand what you mean, but it is a book, and as such, you want a decent ending, whether the characters are happy or not. The happily-ever-after was completely unrealistic because there was no sacrifice. I think most fans are annoyed because Bella got too much out of it all.

[YourOasis97]

but its fantasy! what is realistic about that? lol

[nimmie54]

Yeah, but characters in fantasy should still be relatable & the story, within the parameters of the fantasy world created by the author, should still be realistic. For example, at the end of HP & the Deathly Hallows, fans would have been unhappy had the good guys won without any people dead - it would have been unrealistic to think Voldemort and his Death Eaters would'nt have killed anyone. Of course it's good when good things happen to the characters, but it has to be balanced to be a good book

[YourOasis97]

"should still be relatable & the story, " i hate to break it to you but there is no such rule. and when people look for role models or "realistic settings" in fictional characters, their gonna be sorely disappointed cos thats not the whole point or main point in writing.

[nimmie54]

I hardly think it's for any of us to decide what the 'main point' of writing a book is. But for a plot to be convincing, it has to have some kind of relatability. But there's virtually no point in this discussion as the Twilight Saga has no plot to speak of. Also, there are people who are happy to read substandard books and I guess that's up to them.

[YourOasis97]

it does have a plot and a book doesn't have to convincing or relatable at all. just entertaining and essentially thats what these books are. not every author intentionally writes something with a moral or relatability attached to it. if it does, great. if not, oh well. i just find it dumb when people say "it has to have this and that." says who? there are no set rules to this. i never look at fiction to find morality or something relatable for me. just entertainment.

[nimmie54]

I never said anything about morality lol. That's a discussion for another day.

And as for a plot, any plot it has was a total let-down in my opinion, and a lot of other people's. I suppose it's a matter of opinion - for me to enjoy a book, the plot has to not be sickeningly sweet and unrelatable like this one. I have to take something from it other than "they all lived happily ever after". But that's maybe just me.

[YourOasis97]

i added morality because its kind of similar to relatability. and people complain about that too. well i know she should take some writing classes. the way she wrote it and her grammar really put me off starting the series and took me months to finish the first book. but she's a good storyteller so once i got into i couldn't stop. i just like to read anything and everything as long as it pique my interest and her story is unique. thats why i read it. then yes its all about your preferences

[YourOasis97]

i dont see it as a great piece of literature. nor have i read it a dozen times. i take it for what it is as just a good read and im sure she knows that and thats what she intended it for anyway.

[HTilney]

@nimmie54 sickenly sweet is perfect description...from the wedding onwards all this 'and now my new sisterinlaw, and new brother said that, did this' repeated again and again was so annoying, and the crazy pregnancy where bella doesn't complain one bit. Freaky. was too much. She just over did the sweetness, dripping with honey...more like a disney film. The horror of the birth was actually a relief. lol

[craftgirlof]

Edward got what he wanted, so did Jacob and for that matter the Cullen family because they got Bella and all her special powers to protect them and the Nessie who they never thought they would have.