It’s obvious that Hollywood is in the era of the reboot, and for the most part, we’re not mad. Should “The Twilight Saga” be made into a new TV series, though? Without a doubt. In case you need a reminder, Stephanie Meyer is the author of the The Twilight Saga, a collection of books that began with Twilight in 2005 and ended in 2008. The books were turned into one of the best-selling movie series of all time, catapulting Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, and Robert Pattinson into the spotlight.
In the narrative, Bella Swan falls in love with vampire Edward, who is 104 years old. With werewolf Jacob Black, who is also smitten with this common (but definitely not so common!) teenage girl, she is also involved in a love triangle. But when my frontal brain began to mature, I saw that Twilight is immensely toxic and that we don’t need it to happen again.
Now, I’m not arguing that people enter unhealthy relationships as a result of reading or watching Twilight. However, Meyer’s idealized love tale calls for a female to abandon all sense of self and ignore a variety of warning signs, such as intense jealously and tracking their partner’s movements and sleeping habits.
The early 2000s should continue to have protagonists like Bella Swan who are “not like other girls” who don’t like other women for being women. She is odd; she despises pink, dresses strangely, and doesn’t put on cosmetics. Not like her companion Jessica, who is frequently mistreated in the books’ contemplation and who was famously represented by Anna Kendrick.
With Bella, Edward is domineering and possessive. To keep her from seeing her best friend, he stalks her, keeps her away from her friends and family, and even destroys her car.
“If Edward Cullen wasn’t a good-looking vampire, we’d call the police and tell Bella to leave him.”
However, all of them are presented as evidence that he cares for her and wants to keep her safe. The other man Bella is in love with, Jacob Black, is a Quileute. He is a werewolf as well. Jacob and his group are frequently described as being animalistic, shirtless, and unruly. Even Jacob’s forced kiss on Bella, which he uses to communicate his affections to her, is unsettling since it allows a black guy to step on an innocent white woman.
The vampire, a white man, on the other hand, is after her and wants to keep her virgin till marriage. A reboot will solve these issues. However, do we really need to return to online fan fights that will definitely focus on racism against black actors? Screenwriter and culture journalist Ayan Artan says to GLAMOUR:
I think it’s a symptom of studios and broadcasters trying to tap into nostalgia for our generation not realizing that those cultural artifacts are now intangible. The original is already there, and so we fans probably won’t pay any [positive] attention to a reboot because the original is still so accessible to us.
