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Originally Posted by bjones6416
I guess my viewpoint is that it IS very common for teen girls to get obsessed over stuff...
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Just girls? Boys can get just as obsessed at that age, they just show it differently, of course. Hey, I had a Yoda poster on my wall for years. Of course, I was a Muppets fan from way back before
Star Wars...
(Did I just say that out loud?...)
Anyway, yes, kids can get obsessed as teens and under. I'm not going to say that the kids are going to somehow be emotionally damaged from reading or watching the Twilight material, any more than they might reading and watching Harry Potter, Star Wars, Avatar, Dragonball Z, etc, etc... most of them get over it fine. So it's really just a
personal wish that they got into something else, as I don't get the attraction of Vampire stories.
My wife (who loves her
Vampire Diaries) recently compared the attraction of Vampire fiction to the allure of Superhero fiction (of which I am a fan). Of course, she's mostly familiar with the soap-superhero stuff like Smallville, so from her perspective, relationships with people with "special powers," admittedly there are a lot of similarities. But to me, Vampires' are a very different type of character, diametrically opposite to the superhero character, not really human, and not really deserving of sympathy or pathos in their drives.
I should probably say that I remember the
Forever Knight series... that probably came closest to my impression of a Vampire deserving of pathos. But he generally avoided relationships because of his basic nature.