GO TEAM EDWARD!
Oh I would have given anything to be there tonight! And yes, I totally get who was on the panel. I’ve seen pics of the guys playing Jacob, yeah he’s very handsome. (I’m being very polite)
Stephanie Meyers has been a very gracious author, and in that way she reminds me much of Jo. She’s very friendly and involved with her fans, which gives us (yes I am a Twilight fan in case you missed it) the feeling of being insiders in this special story we don’t always get with other authors.
Enjoy yourself, give John and Sue hugs, and please ask Stephanie if she’s on Team Edward or Team Jacob for me.
seriously? where are our spoilers? alas
hey did you check out NECA’s booth? there are pictures online of a new potter board game. it’d be nice to have a new board game now that all the books are out since the other one only asks SS questions.
wishes she could be a comic-con, settles for wonder-con up north
If I should up at comic-con and Jo was there and people were asking the actors questions like that (no offense to the actors at all) I think I’d get violent. :)
Anyways hope your enjoying comic-con Melissa. Would love to hear about the Harry Potter stuff at a later blog.
Wow Melissa that is a good point! I mean it’s bizarre, isn’t it? I suppose you kind of answered it yourself – the vast majority of attendees were girls and Cedric had them howlin’ like those doggies with the rabies (woot), so… I mean Twilight a romance story first and foremost, with an awesome mythology to make the series stand out among other books like it. For me personally, the romance aspect doesn’t grip me as much as the mythology surrounding the Cullens, because quite frankly, I don’t find Edward and Bella a very enticing pairing. I suppose I’m team Jacob only because I like Jacob and I think the love story that could have been between Jacob and Bella is much more compelling – but this isn’t the place for that! I have no doubt Bella and Edward will end up together btw, I’m not de…um, never mind. :) But meh, Edward is too controlling for my liking. However I agree with you, I want to see Bella become a vampire because of all the intrigue surrounding what powers she’ll have, how she’ll get through the newborn stage etc. And I can’t believe people didn’t ask any questions like that! But I suppose it really is all about the Bella/Edward love story for a lot of people, and seeing that visualized.
Tsk, fangirls. ;) Luckily the book comes out in a week! I can wait.
And also, ITA about the HP vs. Twilight thing. Come on people, just read them both and be happy that you’re getting a lot of reading done! It’s not a war!
I’ll head on over to Candace’s blog now and read some more about this, thanks for linking it! :)
PS I hope you’ll be covering the Lost panel later today?? :D
I definitely understand where you’re coming from. Because I was a Harry fan first, I desperately want people to argue with and theorize and pick details apart… and people always ask Stephenie the same questions. Over and over. She is such an intelligent woman, and just a doll about it. I just watched the videos today and they were hysterical – Kristen and Rob both had some serious issues attempting to formulate coherent thoughts through all of the rabid screaming. :) I’m jealous of you for getting to ComicCon! I hope to hear more about what goes on & how your panel goes! :)
Precisely, Melissa, precisely. I’m a fan of the Twilight fan, but I’m not one of those OMGTWILIGHTEDWARDISSOHOTT! fans…and frankly, I find them a little scary. For me, the books are not about how attractive any of the characters are. Sadly, for some people that seems to be the case.
Well, I think that HP fans would ask more about the books than Twilight fans because the Twilight books are not about the plot. At ALL. It can be seen as an attack on the series, but anyone who has read at least one of those books know it to be true.
The only pertinent questions on the fen's mind are "Will Edward and Bella be together" and "Will Bella become a vampire", and Meyer can't answer neither of them for obvious reasons. Besides, the way "Eclipse" ended is pretty much the way they want the series to end, Bella and Edward together. There was no cliffhanger, no unresolved business (except for Bella still wanting to be a vampire). It's like the guys from Mugglec-- oops, I mean IMPRINT, said: it seems too easy.
Did you see the video of Robert Pattinson saying the screaming was like the sound you hear when they “open the gates of hell”? From what I understand the screaming wouldn’t even stop long enough for him to think so he could give people answers, and I actually feel a bit bad for him. In the same video he said he was totally not ready for that reaction and he doesn’t know what he’s going to do with six more months of that.
When asked “shouldn’t you be used to this? You were in Harry Potter” he responded “It’s a different kind of screaming.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z81hJp_-OhY&eurl
Robert describes the screaming as the sound you hear when they open the gates of hell. I feel a bit bad for him, is it true they wouldn’t even stop long enough for him to think so he could answer questions? :(
Good point. I was a little disappointed that no one asked Stephenie Meyer any questions. I thought there would be some big Breaking Dawn news coming from Comic-Con. And I totally agree about the Twilight verse Harry Potter arguments/debates. I don’t see why you have to choose. They’re both great, just in different ways! Love the blog! :)
Ugh. Don’t remind me. This is exactly what I was thinking while reading all the Twilight Comic Con reports. If that had been Harry Potter, people would have been all “screw the actors, JK Rowling is on a panel”. And I would have been thrilled.
This was (probably) THE LAST FAN INTERVIEW with Stephenie before Breaking Dawn, the END of the series. There are so many questions just waiting to be asked. And not one of them was even mentioned.
Oh, I hurt. I think I’ll go cry now.
What a fantastic summary of that panel Mellisa! I honestly didn’t understand the point you were trying to make until you staged the scenario with HP. What a fantastic point you make. I feel bad for that writer… but at the same time i am glad the Potter movies came after the books were so popular. Honestly, I didn’t know Twilight was a book series until very recently.
Spot on, Melissa. I’m a lower-case fan of Twilight myself, and also a grown woman who doesn’t quite get the pubescent madness surrounding the books (not since my NKOTB fan days have my screams sounded like “the gates of hell opening.”) I think previous commenters are right about Meyer’s graciousness about it all. I think if it were Jo, she wouldn’t be able to stomach it.
Instances like that, Melissa, are why I don’t find myself getting more involved in the Twilight fandom. My experiences with the hardcore Twilight fans have been nothing but terrifying. Like, passing fans, like a lot of our staff our, yeah, they’re cool, but the fans that are OMGTWILIGHT like we are OMGHARRY are mostly 12 year olds or emo kids…and they all want Edward. Or some other male. shudders ugh, I’m not sure I think that’s a wholesome environment, man… :P