werewolf-news.com shares their opinion on the werewolves in Twilight:
Okay, I’ve had enough. Every time I pick up a paper or a magazine, browse through blogs or read a news web site, someone is going on about the werewolves in Twilight. Aside from being boring, cliched, visually uninteresting and a misappropriation of Native American culture, the werewolves in Twilight aren’t real werewolves. This fact is even printed in Breaking Dawn, the last book of the series (chapter 37, look it up). I was willing to let this go, but it’s getting so I can’t even walk down the street without hearing someone sighing dreamily over those hot Quileute werewolves. People are making their own Twilight-inspired werewolf stuff out of craft supplies and selling them to each other online. There are dozens of Twilight-based OMG R U A WEREWOLF OR A VAMPIRE?? online quizzes designed to fill up your sister’s MySpace page and destroy the signal-to-noise ratio on Twitter. Don’t even get me started on the blog discussions.
So what can I do?
Find out here.
Wow, she sounds kinda angry. But I guess it’s to be expected when fans aren’t repeating correct information. The “pack” in Twilight are shapeshifters not werewolves. I thought everyone knew that already.
What do you think? Did you know they’re shapeshifters not werewolves? Or does it even matter?
EDIT the author is a he not a she, my bad! sorry!
She calls them werewolves so she could claim the title, even though she knew they weren’t werewolves. I think she planned it, so she could claim the whole Vampire vs Werewolf cliche. Usually because no one bothers to look into detail, fans will still call them werewolves thus spawning the whole romance between werewolf and vampire.
the thing is that the Quileute actually think they are werewolves, they dont know that there are real werewolves which are also a part of the world in twilight, real werewolves meaning bitten and an unwilling man changed into a wolf at full moon without control of themselves. So the whole tribe think of themselves as werewolves since they dont know real ones exist thats why they call them self werewolves even after their enemy says that they are actually shapeshifteres though this all comes to light in Breaking dawn so really.. whats the big deal xD?
Yea this is a major issue I have with Stephenie Meyer's book. It's almost like she changed her mind at the last minute. I mean Bella even calls Jacob and werewolf and he doesn't correct her. Apparently, even he doesn't understand what he is. It takes an ancient vampire who's their ENEMY to tell them what they are.
I totally agree with you . Twilight fans read breaking dawn and find out that their shapeshifters but then just keep calling them wolves and some people that i know are twilight fans but only know the moie storyline so you cant blame everyone for calling them wolves since twilight movie fans only havnt gotten that far in the series yet but the rest you can blame because stephanie meyer did make it clear inn breaking dawn that they were shapeshifters and the ancestors just happened to pick wolves as their bodys for their soul to lie in. Im a big twilight fan but i also understand the difference between the real werewolves and the twilight shapeshifters. peace out.
Yea this is a major issue I have with Stephenie Meyer's book. It's almost like she changed her mind at the last minute. I mean Bella even calls Jacob and werewolf and he doesn't correct her. Apparently, even he doesn't understand what he is. It takes an ancient vampire who's their ENEMY to tell them what they are.
I totally agree with you . Twilight fans read breaking dawn and find out that their shapeshifters but then just keep calling them wolves and some people that i know are twilight fans but only know the moie storyline so you cant blame everyone for calling them wolves since twilight movie fans only havnt gotten that far in the series yet but the rest you can blame because stephanie meyer did make it clear inn breaking dawn that they were shapeshifters and the ancestors just happened to pick wolves as their bodys for their soul to lie in. Im a big twilight fan but i also understand the difference between the real werewolves and the twilight shapeshifters. peace out.
I’m trying to run a web site about werewolf news that people (or at least, werewolf fans) care about. When I check my inbox and see 25 new Google News emails with hits for the word “werewolf”, I get excited. When I discover that 23 of those emails are just about pictures of Taylor Lautner with his shirt off, that excitement turns into frustration.
In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? No, of course not. Three years from now the Twilight “phenomenon” will have ended. In the short term, though, the “Twilight werewolf” noise is sufficiently loud that I felt like making some noise back, even if it was just a pedantic rant on my web site. After all, what’s the Internet for, if not complaining? 😀
Oh, and not that it make a difference, but I’m a guy.
I’m trying to run a web site about werewolf news that people (or at least, werewolf fans) care about. When I check my inbox and see 25 new Google News emails with hits for the word “werewolf”, I get excited. When I discover that 23 of those emails are just about pictures of Taylor Lautner with his shirt off, that excitement turns into frustration.
In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? No, of course not. Three years from now the Twilight “phenomenon” will have ended. In the short term, though, the “Twilight werewolf” noise is sufficiently loud that I felt like making some noise back, even if it was just a pedantic rant on my web site. After all, what’s the Internet for, if not complaining? 😀
Oh, and not that it make a difference, but I’m a guy.
I’m trying to run a web site about werewolf news that people (or at least, werewolf fans) care about. When I check my inbox and see 25 new Google News emails with hits for the word “werewolf”, I get excited. When I discover that 23 of those emails are just about pictures of Taylor Lautner with his shirt off, that excitement turns into frustration.
In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? No, of course not. Three years from now the Twilight “phenomenon” will have ended. In the short term, though, the “Twilight werewolf” noise is sufficiently loud that I felt like making some noise back, even if it was just a pedantic rant on my web site. After all, what’s the Internet for, if not complaining? 😀
Oh, and not that it make a difference, but I’m a guy.
I’m trying to run a web site about werewolf news that people (or at least, werewolf fans) care about. When I check my inbox and see 25 new Google News emails with hits for the word “werewolf”, I get excited. When I discover that 23 of those emails are just about pictures of Taylor Lautner with his shirt off, that excitement turns into frustration.
In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter? No, of course not. Three years from now the Twilight “phenomenon” will have ended. In the short term, though, the “Twilight werewolf” noise is sufficiently loud that I felt like making some noise back, even if it was just a pedantic rant on my web site. After all, what’s the Internet for, if not complaining? 😀
Oh, and not that it make a difference, but I’m a guy.
Human that becomes a wolf is a werewolf. It is also a shape-shifter! These can be called both, so I go with option C): doesn’t matter.
Human that becomes a wolf is a werewolf. It is also a shape-shifter! These can be called both, so I go with option C): doesn’t matter.
It’s always been a problem, even for Stephenie Meyer, otherwise she wouldn’t have spelled it out in Breaking Dawn. The literary device she uses is easily seen through.
She’d called them werewolves from nearly the beginning, albeit not officially, only colloquially, and since she can’t retroactively change or insert that stuff, she had to have a drawn out conversation during the last book to make this clear.
Hence, I can understand why everyone calls them werewolves. Stephenie Meyer called them werewolves continuously in the book and didn’t make it a significant point until the last part of the last book to make it official that they weren’t, without even putting in the pretense of some sort of conflict about their classification.
So she should lay off.
It’s always been a problem, even for Stephenie Meyer, otherwise she wouldn’t have spelled it out in Breaking Dawn. The literary device she uses is easily seen through.
She’d called them werewolves from nearly the beginning, albeit not officially, only colloquially, and since she can’t retroactively change or insert that stuff, she had to have a drawn out conversation during the last book to make this clear.
Hence, I can understand why everyone calls them werewolves. Stephenie Meyer called them werewolves continuously in the book and didn’t make it a significant point until the last part of the last book to make it official that they weren’t, without even putting in the pretense of some sort of conflict about their classification.
So she should lay off.