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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 159 points 2 months ago

But he doesn't want to cure cancer, he wants to hit on underage girls.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 74 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Not just a minor but person who might have a mental disorder/illness. In case you never read Twilight, the vampires have unique abilities, Edward’s being telepathy. When he meets Bella, he is unable to detect any thoughts from her. The entire book Bella is literally described as having no subconscious thoughts.

[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 66 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The books/movies make quite clear that Bella has a special power which makes her immune to Edward’s telepathy. It was a huge plot point of the second book.

To imply that she was like somehow cognitively disabled is both wrong and really weird…

[–] ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But Edward wouldn't have known that when they first interacted.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He did think she smelled bad. That was hilarious

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

"She's dumb as shit and she stinks to high heaven... I'm in love."

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 10 points 2 months ago

Putting the special in that special ability 

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

The movies make her out to be a total dumbass vs the books. I mean imo its mostly dumb overall but just saying the movies made her seem worse.

Also the actress literally only has 1 expression. 😐

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[–] tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've not read the books or seen the movies or anything, so I don't have a clue what Edward is like.

The 'minor' issue is one thing (eek) but if I had the power of telepathy, I can only assume I'd be pretty fascinated by someone I couldn't read.

Human interaction is kinda built on the supposition that you can choose what you share with others and keep private things private, and getting to know people is the process of getting comfortable in sharing more about ourselves. We feel happy around our friends because we feel we have a sense of them and know them, and that's an earned process.

If you always knew what anyone was thinking, it would make life very bland.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So she described as an air head? Did author imply that she is stupid?

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like anendophasia

It is not considered a disorder

If we were to make a computer to "read our minds" it would pick up on our internal dialog which people with anendophasia do not have.

People with anendophasia are not dumb. They just think different.

Like imagine a person that was born deaf. They can't have a verbal dialog in their heads. They could imagine sign language, images, or words. But just because they were born deaf doesn't mean their IQ is low. They just think different.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t recall any suggestion of their intelligence. Just that whenever Edward attempted to “read” her mind, he could never glean a single thought. It was a blank void.

[–] Duranie@leminal.space 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

spoiler alert

Within the Twilight world, some humans have special abilities which are highlighted and enhanced if they become vampires. He couldn't read Bella's thoughts, but that's because after she becomes a vampire they figure out she has a "shield" power which makes her immune to vampires with powers to effect the mind.

She had thoughts, he was just blocked from reading them.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (6 children)

This is the most interested in Twilight I have ever been!

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

It's like 5% actually interesting fantasy world building and 95% shitty romance.

I actually enjoyed that 5% but not enough to read or watch the other 95% again.

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[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 59 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If he's a bad student he might not even know what cancer is.

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I cannot imagine wanting to spend time with children after being around for hundreds of years!

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People adults aren't anymore mature, they just have more money

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Bowling for Soup was right when they released Highschool Never Ends

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Maturity comes from life experience and plenty of people mature very quickly in periods of adversity, while their peers linger in childhood or adolescence because there's no stressors propelling them onward.

I should note that "maturity" isn't some kind of universal good, either. A person regularly subjected to physical violence will learn coping mechanisms to avoid or endure that abuse. They'll come out with these reflexes and responses that other adults can read as "mature". But I wouldn't say they're better for it.

Similarly, people who endure poverty have to learn mature habits as a method of survival far sooner than their wealthier peers - how to provide food and shelter for yourself, how to navigate social bureaucracies, how to operate motor vehicles safely. But the techniques they adopt - lying, stealing, driving without any formal training - aren't condusive to a safe neighborhood or a functional social network.

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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Batman origin story is a little odd

[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago

And Red Hood's origin story is a little Todd.

[–] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Why would an immortal care about curing cancer?

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Well cancer isn't really a disease in the sense that other illnesses are so it might be worth figuring out incase there's a chance you could end up as a giant suffering blob of immortal tumour.

[–] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because an immortal is likely to have formed connections with mortals that died of cancer. Als, if their friends live longer, they need to start from scratch less often. Another way to archive that is to befriend a family for generations.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

To an immortal, it probably wouldn't make much of a difference. Either they die from cancer or they survive but then die anyways a few decades later. Plus, vampires have ways of extending someone's life without any medical science anyways.

Though some lores for Dracula had him very deep and advanced in science as well as magic, so it's possible he did have a cure for cancer but just didn't care to share it because humans are just livestock to him.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Be a good way to secure enough money to never have people questioning why you're never seen in daylight and have been around for so long without looking like you've aged.

Except... Aren't the vampires in those books/movies able to be in the sun? That's when you see them sparkle, isn't it?

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I remember I did actually talk to a teenage girl about that (it was many, many years ago) and she still insisted 'but it's hot though'.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It depends... If the age difference is hundreds of years, then it's magical. If it's 30 years, then it's just weird.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mONdshkDTTE

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[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Say you become immortal at 20, will your frontal lobe develop?

[–] volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Didn't Interview With The Vampire answer this question? I mean if we take it as part of the vampire canon then the brain does develop further as that little girl was mentally a full ass grown woman trapped in a child's body

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[–] fatalicus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (14 children)

It has been years now since I saw the first half of the first movie, but I think I remember that his dad is an actual doctor.

So isn't he the one that should have focused on that?

(not that I believe an immortal being would be any better than the researchers we have now)

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I can't remember specifics, but I feel like he was... And his "children" that look school age just go to school for a few years in each location they live so they can better blend in. Although honestly he may only have been a doctor so he could steal blood easily, now that I'm thinking about it. I read and watched them all in their heyday, didn't leave much of a mark on me clearly.

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No. They drink animal (deer i think) blood. It makes them weaker and gives them golden eyes, instead oft the red eyes. Its a whole plot point in one of the later books.

[–] Tilgare@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

That's right - I only rembered that they were "vegans" and couldn't remember how.

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[–] Nangijala@feddit.dk 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Pretty sure it is cannon that Edward is stuck at the mental and emotional age of 17. He's also not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Bit unfair to expect this guy to cure cancer just because Carlisle snacked on his neck during the Spanish flu.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago

I mean, maybe if the feed stocks started to run a little low...

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 2 months ago

Drake is that you?

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

And smell them

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 5 points 2 months ago

Vampire can live long life but they are decisivly a very mortal creature of fiction.

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