Oh, thank you! Pardon me while I go for his cute lil' jugular... sorry about splashing the ornaments.
I did read The Host. It was pretty good, though not as absorbing as the Twilight series. Hey, nobody sparkles except in their eyes a little bit. And they're too boring and nice.
I have a question about Jasper. Everybody seems so worried that he's going to go ape-doo-doo over the human Bella, yet he attends school surrounded by humans. Why would they even bother making him go to school if there is even a question about his self control?
They're trying to build his self control. He's been very close to losing it though, in Midnight Sun I think Edward talks about an incident at school, can't remember very well what it was though.
Yanno, that's one thing that kind of didn't transfer so well from the book to the movie. In the book, when Bella is first introduced to Jasper at the house, he is perfectly friendly and is broadcasting "everything's cool and comfortable" vibes, but Bella says to Edward later, "Even Jasper (doesn't seem to like me)..." and he says, "That's my fault, I told him to keep his distance, just in case." In the movie he just looks freakily hungry and weird. He's practically licking his lips.
In Midnight Sun, Jasper's pushing his envelope on purpose, trying to see how strong he can be without hunting for two weeks, so they show him the first day in the cafeteria when a girl gets too close to their table, and he starts fantasizing about getting up and standing next to her and casually leaning over and... biting her neck? And then Edward kicks his chair, and he gets all ashamed. Alice tells him that it helps if he thinks of her as a person, tells him her name and that she has a baby sister she adores, etc. and Jasper is all sullen and embarressed like, "I KNOW." So, in the book, one would assume that they'd all hunted the day before Bella came to meet them, especially Jasper. I guess the point would be that Jasper did pretty well around humans when he kept better fed.
I agree. I've seen some people say that Carlisle's make-up was too white, but I only thought that in the hospital scene, because he was under the ultra-bright lights. He looked fine later on and so did everyone else.
You know, I REALLY liked Carlisle in the movie. In fact, I found him more attractive than Edward. Maybe because he was calm and confident all the time, instead of angsty, brooding and in pain? (Scoot over, there, Esme.)
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