Question of the Week…
May 8th, 2008 | By Kallieross | Category: Question of the Week
Ok everyone…
On our last podcast we did not reveal what we would be discussing next week… but since we will be seeing Stephenie Meyer at a book signing this Saturday, we thought it would be appropriate for the show to be all about her! We will be talking about our experience meeting her, and we will also discuss some of the Q&A she has done in regards to Breaking Dawn… this is where the Question of the Week fits in…
What could Stephenie write in Breaking Dawn that would ruin the whole series for you?
Have fun answering this one!
Okay, so I’ve just sat here talking to myself for the past few minutes like a completely insane person & debated what would absolutely RUIN the books for me. Conclusion: If the vampires, namely the Cullens, became mortal. I feel as though it would take away from the internal struggle that Edward has suffered through and cheapen the experience when Bella becomes a vampire (at least we hope so). The bite is the final and most expressive symbol of their love; it’s what binds them for eternity. If that was just suddenly remedied by some extremely lucky circumstances, what’s the point of even putting so much emphasize on the soul and the whole damnation thing throughout the series? Becoming mortal is the easy way out, it has a cheese quality. Edward & Bella deserve to have a happy ending, but does it have to be perfect? No, it’s unrealistic & in Stephenie’s words, “craptastic.”
Also, if the whole mortal thing was possible, it’s more than likely ALL the Cullens would want to transform & stay as a family. To me, that would make the vampire world even more unbalanced than it already is as far as good vs. evil is concerned. There are only two covens of “vegetarians” out there to set an example. They’d be endangering all that they stand for in that world. Who’s to say the Denali wouldn’t dissolve as well? Who’d be there to show the more moral vampires that there is an alternative? I’d just hate to see Carlisle abandon all that he has accomplished.
Sorry for it being so long, but trust me, I could have gone on much longer. This is the watered down version. :]
Eeek, sorry I just have to fix a little typo. I meant to say “emphasis” not “emphasize.” 😛
if edward died…
end of story… thats basically death to the reader.. and our fictional boyfriend.
If it turned out Edward was ACTUALLY Edwarda (aka the female version of Edward), and worked for the Volturi as a fry cook at Mc Donald’s.
If Edward dies and Jacob ends up with Bella. Booo.
Or if the ENTIRE series was a dream.. VOMIT.
Oh, and if the book’s told by another perspective.. I’ve heard it might, and that… THAT would be the death of me. Bella needs to tell her whole story, and this book would, in my opinion be the most important part in her and Edward’s relationship.
The top three things that would ruin the novel for me are:
3.) Jake ends up with Bella
2.) Bella never becomes a vampire
1.) Edward dies…*eternal tears*
I would seriously cry if any one of these things happen. If Jake ended up with Bella the whole excitement and lure of the vampire/human love story would be gone. After having experienced all these new boundaries with a forbidden love why would a book just let it stop and have Bella end up with someone else in the end? Bella needs to become a vampire, end of story, literally. If Edward died I think I would go catatonic. It would just go to show that nice guys don’t finish on top, they die.
Oh and if the last line of the book was “…and then I woke up.” All heck would break loose if that happened. Stephenie will have opened Pandora’s box with that one…
what would ruin the series for me would be if the wedding is crashed
it would just be way to much like harry potter for me
and i believe that it would be just so much more invigorating to see the
wedding night crashed, because seriously who doesn’t want edward and bella to hurry up and have sex already
so if the wedding night was crashed it would cause more drama and tension
for the movie
and if jacob doesnt find a mate that would break my heart
he is one of my favorite characters in the book and i wish he could
imprint on someone 🙂
The series would be ruined for me if there was no happy ending. I think the worst thing that Stephenie could do would be to kill Bella or someone close to her. Even if Bella is fine in the end, if somehow Edward, Jacob, Charlie, or Renee ended up not surviving the book, then it would be hard to consider the ending to be happy. I’ve gotten myself pretty invested in the story that has been unraveling and if the entire Cullen family and werewolf pack can survive a battle with almost 20 newborn vampires, then I would think they could survive anything, even 5 centuries old elitist Volturi.
Please! How could you ruin this great series of books? But…these three things would certainly be disappointing:
1. If any of the Cullens were hurt or killed (especially Edward),
2. If Bella leaves Edward for Jacob, and
3. If Bella does not become a vampire! Come on! It is totally the right thing for her to do!
Stephenie Meyer is brilliant and knows what her audience wants…she will not disappoint us!
Firstly i want to say i love you guys:D i am just a new listener i have been looking for a good Twilight podcast for 4 years since i read the book and you guys dont have really annoying voices which makes it all better HAHA anyways i think the thing that would ruin the whole series for me is if ..
1) It was all just a dream
OR
2) The Cullens and the warewolves were just playing a massive April Fools Day prank that got out of Hand
OR 3) Bella decides that she has never wanted Edward or Jacob and Eric is the one for her.
I think i would completly lose faith in reading forever if this happened HAHA
keep podcasting kirsty xx
the last words are “and then the fire started”
or
“Bella…” edward said in his velvet voice.
“yes” i answered
“i am gay”
I don’t know if anything would “ruin” the series for me because, as someone else has already said, the story is Stephenie’s and I’m sure that whatever she writes will seem right when I read it. However, I feel that it would be tragic if Edward remains as a vampire. In the chapter of MIdnight Sun on SM’s website we can see that he is so miserable and tormented and he does not want that life for Bella. He has already convinced her that pre-marital sex is not the way to go and I’m sure that he will convince her that being a vampire is not the way to go either. To see Bella go through the pain of being a newborn and then the torture of wanting to kill innocent humans and being separated from her parents and Jacob would just be awful.
ok listen up
i think that bella will go looking for jacob(cause he ran off)and when or if she finds him she’ll get mortally injured and jacob will beg Edward to chance her before she dies,anyways-she survives and her power will either be she can stand the smell of blood and she’ll pritty much be human eventho she’s a vamp -OR she becomes the heroine of the story and She’ll fight beside the Voturi to get rid of some masive army of vamps and cause theres a chance they won’t survive-she and Edward get there “alone time” but it end up all good and it will end with the wedding
p.s thats my theroie
i really am looking forward to the whole edward bella marrage and then turning her into a vampire thing,so if something happends along the lines of jacob coming to crash the wedding or something, that would make me really mad, the number one thing would have to be a really crappy ending.
and nothing could realy reck it
That Edward and Bella didn’t end up together.
Hm, I think that Edward and Bella won’t marry and Bella decides to be together with Jacob. :O
She will not end up wiht Jacob (edward all the way! soz)
The series would be ruined for me if Edward and Bella don’t end up together. They are perfect for each other and after everything they’ve gone through, deserve a happy ending. Steph’s comparisons to a Midnight Summer’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet worry me because it could mean that A)Bella and Edward don’t last or B) that one of them dies. I really don’t want this to happen, Edward is my favorite character and if he or one of his family dies, it would be awful.
mayby Stephine’s saying by refering to those classic book that BD won’t be like that
Edward’s death. Nuff said.
umm… if Bella gets changed at the very end of the book. that would ruin everything.
The thing that would ruin the book for me is, having something inturupt Bella and Edward’s wedding but them never getting back to it so they wouldn’t get married that would make me really dislike the books. Also what would ruin the books for me is if Bella picked Jacob over Edward I honestly really dislike Jake, because he caused alot of problems.(sorry if you’re a Jacob fan just my opinion)
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If Edward and Bella do not get together, the whole book experience will be different, and i wont like it because Edward and Bella belong together, but since i trust Stephanie Meyer i believe she will keep them together forever and happy.
I think that if Stephenie Meyer actually wrote out the scene where Bella and Edward did “it.” Because, I think that then the series would then be limited to an older age group, which I am not a part of. Even though we all know that it is not trashy AT ALL, the series could then be grouped among trashy young adult novels that do have sex and drugs and a ridiculous amount of swearing. But if a scene was written in BD, I would feel like I couldn’t read the books anymore because it goes against what I believe we teenagers should be doing with our lives. It goes against my standards and beliefs and I do not want to be drooling over books with not-so-good, and bad, stuff in them.
Oh yeah, and SM’s novels ARE SO GOOD, and I don’t mean GOOD in that sense. I think that a lot of books directed towards teens send a bad message. SM’s books do not have such things and are based on character rather than how much money Edward has for drugs. Teenagers need to realize that you can have fun in your life without getting into bad things. You can have a good fulfilling life. SM’s books show that. (Even though, we will never find a vampire like Edward! : ) )
I love reading all your responses and ideas. It gives me a lot to think about. Since it seems I can’t think about anything else!!!!!!!!!!!
Edward and Bella have to end up together! Human or not, I don’t care as long as they are together.
Edward has become my favorite fictional character since Rhett Butler.
And like everyone else I’m really hoping that Stephanie doesn’t change Bella’s POV, but if she does, I can only hope that it will be in exchange for Alice’s POV.
Also someone posted that Jacob is Stephanie’s favorite character???
I didn’t know that, can anyone elaborate on that for me?
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Bella and Edward must stay together! & I will be quite dissapointed if she is not turned into a Vampire in this book.
I would like Jacob to find someone to imprint on so that he doesn`t continue to chase after Bella.
& As someone else said I heard rumors about Stephenie changing the POV, and I would be pretty upset if she did. If it is the final book of the series, it should be in Bella’s POV. It makes no sense to change it now. But I suppose we will see when the 1st chapter of Breaking Dawn is released soon!!
twilight series would be ruined for me if
a) anybody from the Cullen family died (recently had this dream were Alice died – I was crying when I woke up)
b) Bella or/and Edward died – suppose, this is greatest horror of EVERY fan, next to
c) Jacob getting Bella, though I think with last page of Eclipse it is clear that’s never going to happen…
d) Bella being human at the end of the book, no marriage or what so ever…gnarf…
and finally
e) Bella wakes up and everything and everybody has been a dream…NOOOOOOO!!!! (read that in a fanfiction not so long ago, there it was a nice idea, where as in the original book series, it would break my heart into millions of tiny little pieces…
I have a gut feeling that Stephenie will not make Edward die. I mean, she know’s what that would do to her readers… It would decrease the book sales by about half! Also, Jacob probably wouldn’t die either, as Jacob adds some SPICE to a SUGAR solution (aka Edward and Bella)..
My answer to the question of the week is that i would be SOOOOOOO angry if Bella’s mind stopped being protected and Edward could hear her thoughts + Jane could hurt her. It would totally change the series for the worse, Edward would get hurt protecting Bella from Jane, Edward would get hurt hearing Bella’s thoughts about Jacob and when he leaves her. It just makes the series so much more unhappy… I HOPE Stephenie will not make that so, even if Bella does become a vampire…….
Easy peasie, if Edward and Bella don’t end up together. I don’t even care if she gets changed or not. They just have to be together.
Nothing could ruin the book for me but i would be annoyed if bella doesn’t get bitten because, although i loved eclipse, i was waiting for her to get bitten throughout the book. I can’t wait to find out what she can do as a vampire.Obviously Edward cannot die so i’m not even thinking about it! It’s not allowed! I also wouldn’t like it if Edward left Bella for a better looking vampire girl or Bella decided she wanted Jacob instead, probably not going to happen though. I want there to be a big battle at the wedding after they have said ‘I do’. I hope that the book stays in the POV of Bella or Edward. I cant wait!
If bella ends up hurting Edward and with Jacob i will kill myself! I love them and i wnat them married in breaking Dawn! pronto!
I hope there a fifth sixth 7th 8th and ninth book!!
Ok, so heres what would ruin it. Bella wakes up next to Edward and says “the dawn is breaking” (ok very unoriginal) and then Edward says “YOU’VE BEEN PUNKED BELLA SWAN!!!” and then Kutcher and the Cullen family, and Charlie, Renne, Phil, everyone thats been in the other books comes out of her closet and laughs at her, and it is shown on nation television
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If Stephenie Meyer said that Breaking Dawn was going to be like Midsummers Night Dream, then the worst thing that could ruin BD would be that everyone fell for the wrong person. OR … that right before the book ends Edward bites Bella and then she says “And the fire began to burn into my vains” UGH that would kill it!
P.S: Also if the Volturi crashed the wedding and found Bella unchanged into a vampire and would kill her….
One thing that would riun the whole series for me wil be if Jacob comes back and ruins the wedding or Edwards and Bellas (and, okay my) hapiness! (too!)
Leave Jacob….Cheezzes men… find someone else!
If Edward or Bella died it would ruin the entire thing for me. After getting to know this characters and relate to them for so long, after seeing their love struggle and grow, it would be horrible if either of them were to die or if they got separated.
Quite obviously, I would be ruined if Bella and Edward don’t end up together for eternity (that means she better become a vampire as well). I haven’t read a Midsummer’s Night’s Dream so I don’t get the comparison but it seems some people think this will mean a problem for Bella and Edward being together in the end. Can you guys discuss this a little? I would just die if they didn’t end up together- and we better get to see them together as vampires before the end of the book. I want some time to enjoy it!
Bella not becoming a vampire or Edward and Bella not getting married. I’ve been waiting for them to get married since the first book!!
Hm. I really don’t think that there will be anything that would actually “ruin” the book for me – I’ll be a fan no matter what happens. The thing that would really uspet me though, is that if Jacob and Leah don’t get together. They seem so perfect for eachother! I really think Leah likes Jacob, and I think that’s the reason why she’s always nagging him. Plus, that means that Jacob will leave Bella and Edward alone. 😛
I would be really upset if anything ever happened to one of the cullens. Like if one of them dies.
I think the one thing that would really ruin the books for me would be if edward and bella didnt end up together. Like even if they died in a Romeo and Juliet style I wouldnt mind as long as they were together.
I just dont think she should be with Jacob. Jacob isnt worthy to be with her.
thats a hard one for me, i dont know why but it is!
Edward dieing (i HATE writing that!!!!!!!!!!!)
Bella Dieing (i HATE writing that TOO!)
i bet alot of ppl have said bella not being a vampire, and that would be sad but it wouldnt ruin it for me if she got to be with Edward! make sense?
If Bella and Edward don’t end up together forever I will be heartbroken.
Well theres a few there, first off if someone becomes gay. (though i kow she won’t do that)
Two: If she just plain off wrote the story predictable
Three: If she Doesn’t tie up the lose ends with the Voulturi
haha thats all i can think of right now, but knowing stephenie, it will be an amazing book,
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IF ANY OF THESE HAPPEN I WILL THROW ALL MY TWILIGHT BOOKS IN THE TRASH CAN!!!!!!
1) If Bella ends up with Jacob!
2)If Bella and Edward are not together in the end!
ok! so those are those are the only big 2 things that i have a major problem with! But the following i will not hate the series forever but i will be little disappointed!
1) If Edward bites her at the very very end and then you dont know if it worked, what her power is etc.
2)If Edward and Bella dont get married and have their honeymoon!
3)If Bella kisses JACOB AGAIN!!!! or Jacob kisses her!
4)If im not getting teary eyed because of all of the gushy things Edward is going to say at their wedding
5) If Jacob goes to the wedding
ok! so i really hope that Edward turns Bella at the begining or middle of the book i want to know how life for her is as a vampire!! I want Stephine to include the whole wedding in the book to because i want to know what Edward has to say to Bella on their wedding day! AND if Jacob does go to the wedding HE BETTER NOT SCREW IT UP!!!!!!!
Btw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really want Breaking Dawn to be the most romantic out of all the books!!!!!!!! I want to be overwhelmed with the romance i can hardly take it in all at once!! I dont want there to be any sad heartbreak! for Bella or Edward and i cant believe im saying this but Jacob too!
But BD in in the editing/publishing process so what happens….HAPPENS!!! but i dont think Stephenie would hurt us too bad without a happy ending!
ok first of all, people have GOT to read the things stephanie meyer has written on her website. First, she wrote forever dawn which was originally the second book after highschool, and she said she was SHOCKED by what the characters turned out to do (ie edward leaving, bella falling in love with jacob) and she also says that the fact she is giving up humanity and life that she could have with jacob, makes her love with edward even stronger. so, besides all that stuff that will NOT change………and they cant die in the end because that is just ridiculous. stephenie meyer isnt stupid…………the thing that would ruin the book for me is if jacob is left heartbroken and miserable. Edward is my #1 but jacob is extremely close in slot #2. so thats what would make me depressed and ruin the books.
i really actually hope breaking dawn is like sexier and more WOOHOOO then the rest. maybe it’ll be like they get really serious and get married.
i think the only bummer stephenie could posibley put into the book is if she holds off their wedding til the next book.
then again, theres the possibilty of bella getting mad at edward and going for jacob, i’d cry. u dont even know.
but yah, i hope bella finally does get to sleep with edward. im not trying to sound gross but like, maybe stephenie will make it cute [:
you never know ok.