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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Random thought I had on the plane yesterday rereading my Bujolds: David Tennant should play Miles Vorkosigan.
I've been trying to mentally cast that role for years, and it finally clicked and now I want a miniseries. (Dear Universe, please to be making this happen. Kthxbye.)
MM, K-bunny's t-shirt is the funniest thing I've seen in a LONG time.
MM - bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Priceless. And Teppy's so right about the t-shirt.
More Breaking Dawn blather: From an interview with Meyer herself
Question: How was Bella's pregnancy possible? — Deep
Meyer: One of the longest things about this last year is that I've been reading all these quotes that people have been attributing to me that I never said. I had a rough draft of [this story] by the beginning of 2004, so before I ever did a tour or answered any questions or did an interview, I knew where the story was going. ... When people said, "Hey, can vampires have babies?" I always said no, because female vampires don't change at all, and it takes a lot of change for your body to accommodate a fetus, so it's not possible. But I never said anything about the part that I knew was coming. ... It is true ... there's a whole chromosomal-count difference, but venom works a lot of different ways, so for me, it always worked just fine.
Oh, well that explains it all
NOT
Oh, what horseshit.
"venom" is that what they're calling it these days?
On the other hand, Joss established fairly strongly that vamps can't have babies, but I really didn't blink when Darla got knocked up by Angel. So there's that.
but I really didn't blink when Darla got knocked up by Angel
But all the characters did, so we (the audience) knew that ME knew they were breaking a rule, and would have to answer for it eventually. There was no retcon involved because it was acknowledged and explained as a wholly new (and unique) situation in that universe.
and...the baby was not a vampire. Not even a half-vampire.
Well, the characters in Breaking Dawn are baffled that it's possible for her to be pregnant, but then they fuck it up and point out that there are myths where it has happened in the past.
The pregnancy befuddles me, but it isn't a deal breaker. The entire lack of sacrifice and the ultimate wish fulfillment of it all is what makes the book suck.