Creepy guys falling in love with young girls... well, better that he wait years for her to come of age than that he try to woo her now.

Honestly, though, it's the "waiting for her" part that's really creepy to me. If a young man saw a 17-year-old girl and thought, dang, she's cool, if she were older I'd ask her out, and then moved on with his life and happened to meet her again in 5 or 6 years and said, hey! you grew up! and you're still awesome, wanna go out? That would be okay. It's the obsessiveness of the waiting that ain't right. And the age disparity, if it's more than about 5 years. The difference between 17 and 22 is not as disturbing as the difference between 17 and 32.

I met my first real boyfriend when I was 16 and he was 23. He "waited" for me to turn 18, insisted we get married, and lost his shit when I refused. Then I discovered that what had seemed so cool was in fact a creepy psycho.

If she's 8 when he falls for her, though, he's a nutcase. I'm sorry, dude: even if you two were madly in love in a previous life, in THIS life you're a pedophile.

Oh, good, smonster.

That actor is Eugene Tooms! He married a 16-year-old. The creepy factor went up by 20.

Hmm. I don't remember Tooms at all -- I must not have been really watching XF yet at that point?

Wait, what? Really? Not enough EWWW in the freaking world.

At least it's funny when viewed in this form: [link]

Isn't that part of the plot of the last sparkly vampire book? Like, the werewolf falls in love with the newborn vampire?

Wait, that is how they resolve the whole Edward/whast's his name thing? Oh man, not enough ew in the world.

I haven't seen any of the previous movies, but I might catch this one just to see how they handle the WTF.

Oh, it will be FULL of glorious, glorious WTF. Because in addition to that bit of plot crazy, the movie will have the Cesarean by vampire teeth part! I am still sad that the movie wasn't directed by David Cronenberg.

Wow. Twilight is way more bizarre than I thought it was.

Yeah, I haven't seen any of the others, but I've been perversely longing to see this one ever since Cleolinda detailed all the excruciating details of the WTFery. I may have to sneak a martini shaker into the theater.

The last book is one long GodKing Badfic. Cleolinda's recap is the best coverage of it, by far.

I may have to sneak a martini shaker into the theater.

I'm planning on going to one of those fancy theaters that serves food & alcohol, so I don't have to bother with smuggling flasks of absinthe with me again. Instead, helpful staff will bring me booze!

For those of you who have read both- is Twilight more or less horrifying than Flowers in the Attic?