hey babes missed me? i missed yall i was sucked into the dark side of podcasts (reading reddit stories) Deep for so long that i’m just now catching up on eclipse season! loving it so far btw! i just wanted to say i think it’s so interesting how you mentioned that twilight fans who love eclipse are like lore girlies and that’s part of the appeal because i consider this my least favorite book and second to last movie (bd p1 you’re horny but you’re boring) but i love the lore and world building aspects. and of course you know i love rosalie and this is kind of the start of her moment.
i think the macho posturing in the ‘love triangle’ really sucks some of the fun out of it for me but i also feel like looking back the kind of lack of world building quencies also kind of sucks like all this newborn knowledge is gained for next book, but once the army and victoria are dead (rip) this war really does nothing to the story like bella ends up almost exactly where she started this entry in the series. maybe i’ll have a different opinion on that as yall work through this book.
anyway i would love to hear your thoughts 🫶
welcome baaaaack
we actually talked a little about this in the episode that came out on Monday (54, "Cold Tongue, Warm Soda") and concluded that people who like Eclipse tend to strongly prefer either the love triangle or the worldbuilding/external conflict aspects, but rarely both. so we can totally see how, on the flip side, hating one of those things enough could also ruin the book for you!
(G would argue that bella actually ends up in a worse place by the end of Eclipse because now she can never un-kiss her son-in-law and also has to lawfully wed edward)