I am fully prepared to give the Eleventh Doctor a chance, in case that was not clear! He wasn't a choice that particularly excited me, but I don't know the guy, so perhaps he will be the best Doctor ever. Perhaps! I am sort of looking forward to finding out.

To lead into the main subject of this entry, here is a picture of the Eleventh Doctor sparkling like Edward Cullen.

And now I shall talk about the Twilight film, which I saw with wanttobeatree, sazzlette and company during the Mancunian Adventure.



I thought that Bella in the film was more likeable than she was in the book, largely because she actually seemed to appreciate her human friends a tiny bit. I'm, er, reading New Moon at the moment, and Bella invites Jessica to see a film with her as a calculated way to stop her father demanding that she try to enjoy herself. She makes it clear in the narration that she's feigning interest in actually spending time with Jessica. She doesn't even consider treating this as an opportunity to actually go out with a friend and have fun. Jessica, who does view Bella as a friend, is just a tool from Bella's perspective. It makes me so angry.

Ahem. Anyway. In the film, although Bella is obviously still much more interested in the vampires than in the humans and her human friends are sometimes portrayed simply as an annoying obstruction, there are still moments when she actually talks to them, moments when she looks at them and thinks about how she has come to enjoy life in Forks. In the film, although Bella is a bit daft, I don't really dislike her.

Also, I enjoyed her clumsiness, because I had spent the past week falling over everything and it helped me feel less alone in my uselessness. Although it did lead to the horrifying revelation that I am Bella Swan, which I could have done without.


Ridiculous things:

THE SPARKLING. There were six of us, and we all burst out laughing. 'THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER.' (wanttobeatree and I had earlier discussed the possibility of Twilight on ice. Glitter frozen into the ice, Bella falls over a lot, and at the climax Edward rips off his clothes to reveal the sparkly catsuit underneath and shouts 'THIS IS THE SKIN OF A KILLER'. You'd watch it five times and you know it.)

'I've been sneaking into your house and watching you sleep for months.' 'Well, I don't see anything wrong with that.'

When Edward and Bella were cuddling, all I could think of was the beginning of New Moon, when Bella says that Edward's body is as hard and cold as an ice sculpture. That sounds really unpleasant to snuggle up to, right? It's not just me, right?

'HOLD ON, SPIDER MONKEY.'

The speeded-up vampire running! The vampire baseball! Amazing! (pinkegogirl observed that Bella was standing right behind the batter, so had they missed the ball would have gone straight through her head. And then Edward would have eaten her. Weeping.)

Edward's face when he was glomming onto Bella's arm was utterly ridiculous. HIS GOOGLY EYES. I know it was supposed to be a dramatic moment, but I just couldn't stop laughing.

Speaking of googly eyes: ahahaha, Jasper's face.


The film could have done with more Alice; she was something I actually really liked about the book. However, the film did have things I genuinely liked. Here are a few of them:

James was pretty terrifying. I was inwardly laughing at the daftness for quite a lot of the film (and outwardly laughing when Edward started sparkling), but I'm not going to laugh at James. Please don't hurt me, James.

The other Cullens were great! I loved their excitement at actually being able to cook for someone. AND THEN EDWARD RUINED IT BY SAYING THAT BELLA HAD ALREADY EATEN. I AM NOT HAPPY WITH YOU, EDWARD.

The flashback where Carlisle turned Edward could have gone under 'ridiculous' for the faces Edward made, but I decided to put it here because it was also sort of sexy. YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE.

Also great: Charlie. I didn't really notice him in the book, but in the film he was completely amazing. I almost wept for him when Bella was fleeing Forks. That's right: I almost wept at Twilight. I am ashamed of myself.

(sazzlette has the theory that Charlie is an ex-hunter; his wife left him because of the hunting, so he gave it up, but she never came back. pinkegogirl has the simultaneously even better and so much worse theory that Charlie is actually Bobby. Thus making Delaware and Bella siblings. wanttobeatree and sazzlette hate this theory, which just makes me want to write about Bella joining Sam and Delaware more.)


Overall: better than the book, but not good enough to disappoint! Hurrah!