Twilight question

[marydell]

Ok, I've only read about 100 p of the Twilight Saga, but I do encounter reviews and synopses.  So, tell me, internets: do those vampires seriously have to go to high school over and over and over and over for eternity, in order to maintain their cover story?  Because oh my GAWD.

Comments

[kcobweb.livejournal.com]

I've only read the first one (I work in the youth section at the public library, so it seemed necessary) - but I was wondering about this just the other day.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

If immortality means repeating high school....forget it. Not. worth. it.

[sanguinity]

But at some point you'd get good at it, wouldn't you? I'm pretty sure that I'd do just fine in that shark's den now, and I haven't even been practicing.

Hm, unless you're talking about taking the same mind-numbing classes for eternity...

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

an eternity of trig and social studies? I don't care HOW good I get at the social stuff, that sounds not fun...~shudder~

and I'm pretty sure I'd still weird people out...with or without practice. :P

[sanguinity]

But does it matter if you pass? If you'll never leave high school, the transcript is pretty much going to be irrelevant. Freedom like you never had in high school the first time around...

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that. Having to read Ethan Frome and The Pearl over and over would drive me completely...batty.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Definitely not.

[sanguinity]

Hahahahahahaha!

How old is Edward supposed to be? Did he turn during an era when teens were considered responsible, useful adults, and then get caught by the changing of the times?

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

that would certainly go a long way toward explaining the emo I guess

[sabotabby]

I only read the first one, and this is one of the things that makes no sense to me. It means that they have to move, like, every four years, but then somehow they're very established in Forks and everyone knows them. I think they go to high school and then graduate and stick around until people start commenting that the oldest vampire looks really young, and then they move again and start high school again. Also weird because none of them look young enough to be in, say, Grade 9.

These books are fucking terrible.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

My coworker and I were just talking about this. I was complaining that so many afterlives and awesome powers seem wasted with a lack of grand vision. I mean, I could see going to a college and changing your major six or seven times in the amount of time Edward Cullen has been alive, but high school?

This also triggered my Tuck Everlasting rant--I got it stuck in my head the other day, how they pose this "moral dilemma" to Winnie: stick it out and live your life and die OR live forever as a teenager. Which is a damn stupid choice, because even if your body is young, your mind won't be forever.

Even more damning to my mind is the idea that the Tucks know about this spring, have done for ages, and instead of figuring how to protect it or buy it to protect it, they just moan about how we better not let anyone know about the spring, because somebody will abuse the power. In fact, they kill somebody to protect the secret.

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

And apparently they are still affected by teenage hormones because how else to explain the idiocy??

It can't last that long, or else they'd have to be moving every 3 or 4 years because, ya know, people will notice if the "kids" stay in high school forever. :P

I was watching Dead Like Me on Netflix, and the little-boy Reaper... OMG. What a miserable afterlife that would be! Too young to get a job, rent an apartment, ANYTHING, always hiding out from well-meaning social workers, cops, etc, who want to clap you in a foster home because obviously you're too young to be on your own, all the while *mentally* getting older ... but stuck forever in the body of a child.

[diatryma.livejournal.com]

No, I think one of them owns an island. Which means they go through high school for fun.