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  • @DanielGreeneReviews
    @DanielGreeneReviews  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Big thank you to Square Space for sponsoring today's video. Be sure to checkout www.squarespace.com/danielgreene

    • @samlerf
      @samlerf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      What happened to the writing advice videos on fantasy protagonists and worlds? Why does it all have to be so over the top cartoony and set on constant "entertainment"? Your writing advice videos I mentioned were within any over the top acting or affects - your opinions and facts were interesting. You needed no clown comedy to be interesting. So why now? You are free to do what you want, of course, and I hope you're happy. But Diane Callahan and little thought tree show that substance requires no goofy shits and giggles or video effects to work.

    • @DanielGreeneReviews
      @DanielGreeneReviews  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@samlerfwell let’s see in the last few months alone I’ve put out many of the reviews I’m most proud of for getting pretty darn deep into the books like Black Company, DCC, Sun Eater, etc,. Reading Left Hand of Darkness right now. We’ve covered a lot of news that required more research than I’d ever used to do. We’ve done an intro to fantasy video, Cosmere adaptation deep dive, advice on starting reading fantasy, abuse of an author, and several more heavier topics certainly worth discussion. There have been only 2 skits (which were quite fun to make), and less bookshelf roasts or firsts and lasts. Though I might make more of this if the desire strikes me. Writing advice? Well I do those after finishing another book to convey what I’ve learned. I’m about to really get into my next one Better Dead so more may be coming. Now, do you have an issue with me making jokes? Cause I hate to break it to you… that’s been here since the start and isn’t stopping. I make what I want to make and if you don’t like, I wish you the best and hope you find yourself capable of unsubscribing. 🫡

    • @samlerf
      @samlerf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DanielGreeneReviews Do what you want. I'm glad if it's going well. All I can say is that the over the top goof humor many thumbnails seem to carry and that existed in this video, too, seems unnecessary. It's almost like the kind of humor board executives put in when they either talk down or mistrust the own substance. I wonder why you see the need for that when the videos of yours I brought up as an example required none of it to work. Constant key jiggling seems more distracting than useful. It's a style I've noticed with many youtubers, as if substance only works when paired with constant sound and video effects, references and zoom ins. But of course that's also a matter of taste and opinion. I'm happy if you're happy and certainly it's a great thing if you can inspire and entertain your viewers. If even just one person's day got better because of you there would certainly be value in that. All I can say is that I think is that such humor seems unneded when the information presented is relevant and engaging, as the channels I mentioned show. But, at the end of the day, I neither want to nor can demand anything of you, express yourself how you see fit. I gave my two cents and that's about it, nothing more or less.

    • @Kaladin_S_
      @Kaladin_S_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Daniel I personally like the direction you've taken the channel, and I appreciate that you have a wide range of talents that make for a diverse video catalogue. I say keep it up cuz you're doing great :)

    • @johnnymcjohnson1373
      @johnnymcjohnson1373 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@samlerfthought this video was immensely entertaining but also really appreciated his more deep review of Sun Eater, honestly don’t know what you’re on about

  • @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm
    @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +818

    The irony of Edward shaming every woman and girl for thinking he is hot while Bella does exactly that almost every page in Twilight. Edward really thinks she is special because he can't read her thoughts and he projects a lot on her, but there is not much going on in her mind💀

    • @ladyethyme
      @ladyethyme 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Do they ever explain on why that is?

    • @ladyethyme
      @ladyethyme 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      Every.
      Single.
      Page.
      😂

    • @kaimcdragonfist4803
      @kaimcdragonfist4803 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@ladyethymeas far as I’m aware, no. Maybe she’s just that special™️ and definitely not because her brain cells are consumed by snark and thirst

    • @rhonwenbaker2448
      @rhonwenbaker2448 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      I think it was Gabi Belle who -commented- roasted "maybe it's not that Ed can't read her thoughts, it's that there are none to read" 🤭

    • @breezy3392
      @breezy3392 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Bella - no thoughts, head empty

  • @Syx33sylph
    @Syx33sylph 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +374

    the twilight community is one of the best fandoms out there, they roast twilight relentlessly but love it just as passionately lol

    • @jensenwahlquist
      @jensenwahlquist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      More fandoms should be like the twilight fandom honestly

    • @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm
      @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

      I think that's a mature fandom. The teen girls that loved it unironically grew up, reread it realized what a dumpster fire it was, but still remember the good moments they had with it because of nostalgia

    • @hocuskrocus602
      @hocuskrocus602 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Honestly my favorite part about Twilight is the Fandom for this exact reason.

    • @AlanaClimber
      @AlanaClimber 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I’m 100% in that demographic. Unfortunately, I had to leave the Twilight subreddit because the redditors on that sub very much UN-ironically love Twilight and it sort of killed the fun of dunking on my favorite thing.

    • @jaginaiaelectrizs6341
      @jaginaiaelectrizs6341 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think it depends if they're just Twifans or actual literal Twi-hards. 😅 Loll

  • @RiseeRee
    @RiseeRee 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +474

    Daniel: “I addressed this so I won’t keep bringing up the age thing”
    Also Daniel: “Edward was trying to strike a chord and it’s probably A Minorrr”

    • @starmoalitiny
      @starmoalitiny 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      💀💀💀

  • @meredithodonnell4298
    @meredithodonnell4298 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +99

    I haven't read the book, but I will say at 54, I can't imagine the torture it would be to read the minds of high school kids. I have a hard time tolerating their outside thoughts. LOL

  • @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm
    @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +418

    No matter what people say, the Twilight series is an incredible unintentional comedy.

    • @DanielGreeneReviews
      @DanielGreeneReviews  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

      Unintentional? Stephanie Mayer might be playing a Nathan Fielder type character and we’re just not all getting it.

    • @kerrissedai6857
      @kerrissedai6857 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I grew up with Lost Boys…so these vampires are beyond laughable.

    • @j.b.5422
      @j.b.5422 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      or horror as odominci noble saifd.

    • @kristaeggleston1505
      @kristaeggleston1505 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Legit I tell people the funniest moment in cinema I've ever seen is Edward sparkling in the sunshine and telling Bella he's a predator

    • @NoelleTakestheSky
      @NoelleTakestheSky 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@DanielGreeneReviews No, no-Meyer is very Mormon, and there is intentional Mormon ideology in these books. That’s a fact. We can laugh at these books now, but she really meant them.

  • @roobenthesandwich2586
    @roobenthesandwich2586 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

    Because you said Ed instead of Edward, I'm now just picturing Ed from Ed, Edd, n Eddy stalking Bella and reading the minds of highschoolers.

    • @kaimcdragonfist4803
      @kaimcdragonfist4803 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      YOU ARE MY SPECIAL BRAND OF HEROIN!
      Just…read it in his voice lol

    • @abdqs853
      @abdqs853 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You mean Edgy

  • @FlyingFocs
    @FlyingFocs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

    "For however many minutes, I'm guessing thirty."
    Sees it's actually FIFTY: oh my...

  • @Severian1
    @Severian1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +209

    Never knew I needed a 50 minute return to Twilight of all books. Once again the Goblin surprises.

  • @animeotaku307
    @animeotaku307 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +161

    “Revamp the series”
    I see what you did there

    • @rhonwenbaker2448
      @rhonwenbaker2448 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Came for this. Did not dissapoint

  • @asaipuol
    @asaipuol 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +76

    "You can kinda understand why this psychopath begins stalking this child"
    Daniel Greene, 2024

  • @MasterHigure
    @MasterHigure 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    "He does not deserve the panache of Edward. He gets Ed. This is where I begin to have some actual, like, desire to see Edward's character grow in this story." Bro, way to stick to your guns.

  • @FelixM86
    @FelixM86 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    Of course Bella can't be turned to a vamp yet. Sex before marriage is a sin! oh. whoops, I meant to write "Turning into a vampire before marriage is a sin!"

  • @neverhowever3231
    @neverhowever3231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    your deeply mixed feelings are so real, like i know on a mental level these books are terrible but for some reason they are so goddamn fascinating to me. like the batshit characterization & slowburn/creepy vibes on top of the very mormon energy is SO GOOD. its fucking crack chicken

  • @GavinReadsItAll
    @GavinReadsItAll 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    Me seeing the title of the video: 👁️👄👁️

    • @zoyanazyalensky6284
      @zoyanazyalensky6284 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Hey!! Love your one piece read alongs

  • @zerin25
    @zerin25 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Oh f***, I happened to take a large drink just as that sniffing re-enactment started and immediately began choking and coughing up water. I think I almost died

  • @championdefender9062
    @championdefender9062 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    "You experienced WATERGATE."
    Dunno why, but that was just hilarious to me.

  • @jasongillespie8933
    @jasongillespie8933 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    On the topic of why they don't just hunt James. Jasper, is trained in killing vampires. Which, is a plot point in Eclipse. they (Cullen's) had everything they needed to take them out here.

    • @NoelleTakestheSky
      @NoelleTakestheSky 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Meyer contradicted her own storylines so much that it stopped making sense. Like…Alice can’t see anything with wolves, yet she saves the day at the very end by showing Aro a vision with the very wolves it was established repeatedly that she couldn’t see, but then suddenly could when Meyer didn’t know how else to get herself out of the corner she wrote herself into? And Jasper being specifically trained to hunt and kill people like James, then not doing it… The first book wasn’t a problem until…New Moon? I mix up the titles of t 2 and 3. But whichever is 3. She created continuity problems so many times that she’s a masterclass in making sure that multi-part series that will be released before the last is written are planned out at least enough to avoid major problems.

    • @jasongillespie8933
      @jasongillespie8933 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@NoelleTakestheSky Yeah, I can at least head canon the Alice thing with being around them (NotWerewolves) so much that she got used to them and could have visions with them by the end. But most of the rest i agree were big contradictions or just plain nonsense. My other half loves the movies and books. and i can enjoy them too, but yes, there are issues.

    • @rica3947
      @rica3947 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@NoelleTakestheSky ok so not to defend SM too much but the vision with the wolves in Breaking Dawn doesn't happen in the books. It's just in the movies to add drama. Plus, they were actually hunting James in the books but they wanted to get Bella away from the scene first, so she wouldn't get hurt.

    • @buchbummelant8980
      @buchbummelant8980 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@rica3947Also to add: it wasn't only about taking James, Laurent and Victoria out, they were also trying to have no casulties on their side. That's the whole spiel for all the fights. Alice also could not see the Werewolves, she was getting better at glimpsing around and beyond them, getting headaches for her effort (also because of the half-vampires, but that's another story).
      The whole thing about Vampires is that they are not changing unless something drastic happens to them, like falling in love or losing someone. Vampires cannot get beyond that change and get better. That's why Edward considers his options once he realized he's falling for Bella. He mentally can't leave her and move on.
      Not finished with Midnight Sun yet, but that was a whole line of inquiry in Breaking Dawn. Yeah, there are plotholes, but I read Twilight and Midnight Sun actually as a conflict within Edward to accept having Bella at his side and being strong enough to not hurt her.

  • @willowzed136
    @willowzed136 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    The title is definitely a new sentence

    • @not-a-raccoon
      @not-a-raccoon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Totally a combination of words I didn't expect

  • @casualdragonslayer9655
    @casualdragonslayer9655 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

    This has immediately become my favorite Daniel Greene review😂

  • @MichaelJLClark
    @MichaelJLClark 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    I met Stephanie's son a few years back. She's Mormon, so is he, so is most of my extended family (I'm not). He was on his mission, and he settled in my grandparents' church. I was there when he did a visit to my grandparents' house, and that poor guy. My grandma is a PROLIFIC reader, and she had brought up the Twilight books to sit on the coffee table. All anyone would talk about was the Twilight books. Poor guy's mission partner couldn't get a word in edgewise. I was playing piano, as I often do when I visit my grandparents', and Stephanie's son recognized some Zelda songs I was playing, and we got to talking about video games. You could literally see the relief on his face that someone there did not care about the Twilight books HA. If even HE gets that amount of attention from it, I cannot imagine what Stephanie has to go through on a day-to-day.

    • @NoelleTakestheSky
      @NoelleTakestheSky 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      $10 days he’s going to have to carefully screen whoever will her an MRS degree from him to make sure her interest isn’t “OMG MEYER’S SON!!”
      At least he’s not EL James’s sons.

  • @bhenstridge
    @bhenstridge 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I did not know I needed this video, but Daniel pulled an Alice and saw a future in which he delivered exactly what we deserved 🙏🏻
    Now I need to see The Host get the same treatment. I honestly think that Stephenie Meyer's sci-fi book is her best work to date

    • @MsJMHS
      @MsJMHS 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I want a review of The Chemist as well as The Host.

  • @breezy3392
    @breezy3392 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Retelling a story from the other character's perspective works if there is more story to tell. Midnight Sun didn't really give up more, like what the Cullens do when Bella isn't around. They don't really do...anything.
    You would think something could happen, for example, when Jasper's former brother visits...but no.

  • @royceshatzel
    @royceshatzel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    The Kendrick line “A minor” fucking sent me into orbit goddamn

  • @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm
    @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

    One of the greatest ironies of modern literature is that some of the most misogynistic books out there are romance novels written by women

    • @not-a-raccoon
      @not-a-raccoon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      (cough) 50 shades (cough)

    • @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm
      @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      ​@@not-a-raccoon (Couf)After(couf) (couf)365 days(couf) (couf)Lore Olympus(couf) (couf)ACOTAR(couf) (Bridgerton(couf)
      Danm, I think I need to see a doctor

    • @stephennootens916
      @stephennootens916 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      It is weird how bad romance has become the last twenty or so years.

    • @lolofunslayer4953
      @lolofunslayer4953 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      There’s plenty of good feminist romance. The problem is that the crap ones are the popular ones. It’s a pop-culture problem, plenty of good romance books are out there though.

    • @jaginaiaelectrizs6341
      @jaginaiaelectrizs6341 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@stephennootens916 There's always been good and really bad. It's just that it's easier for the same ones to spread even farther and wider than ever before and/or to get magnified or highlighted disproportionately more than any others almost like it's just stuck in one big echo chamber forever.

  • @DeyaViews
    @DeyaViews 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    I read the title and had to take a screenshot to send to friends like "Mr Daniel Green what"

  • @IOSARBX
    @IOSARBX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Daniel Greene, This is amazing! I can't stop smiling!

  • @Paul_McSeol
    @Paul_McSeol 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    Confession: I thought her book, The Host, was actually an incredible story. Loved it.

    • @Arezoo298195
      @Arezoo298195 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I agree

    • @per-c8229
      @per-c8229 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Not an incredibly story but I still think is better, also in my mind I edged up the girl so I could enjoy the story

    • @lolofunslayer4953
      @lolofunslayer4953 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      It’s certainly enjoyable but it’s got a whole lot of Stockholm syndrome. It suffers from the same problem as the twilight series, it’s kinda messed up in concept to be a teenage book.

    • @rowanwax
      @rowanwax 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lolofunslayer4953the Host is for adults.

    • @MsJMHS
      @MsJMHS 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The movie fell short, the book is excellent.

  • @BookedPanda
    @BookedPanda 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    It is perfectly possible to trip over flat ground. Normal people don't get the amount of skill it takes to do so 😂

    • @Kaiularalei
      @Kaiularalei 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Was going to say. I am well known for being disastrously clumsy constantly, although mine is from issues related to knowing where my own body is in relation to stuff. Just headcanon she’s neurodivergent or has dyspraxia or both since they can often occur simultaneously and it’s entirely comprehensible

  • @randomspider725
    @randomspider725 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    The “shaming people for their thoughts” thing reawakened my religious trauma, good lord. One can practically feel the Mormonism bleeding through with this book.

    • @jk_d7837
      @jk_d7837 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh my gosh when I read the book myself I never thought of it like that but it makes SO much sense

  • @asexualtrickster
    @asexualtrickster 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    OHMYGOD THANK YOU FOR THIS GIFT OF A VIDEO!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @lugonzalez9929
    @lugonzalez9929 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Since the first time i read Twilight, i always thought Stephanie Meyer should write horror or suspense novels. She writes suspence scenes and the feeling that something is lurking around sooooo well, it makes you feel really ansius.
    With a sparkle of romance will be ok, if she wants.

  • @shawnkuhn4753
    @shawnkuhn4753 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I like your alternate time line idea. The second book could be called, "Waxing Gibbous Moon".

  • @nikoguarro
    @nikoguarro 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    People really dont get that Edward's frontal lobe never completed it's development. He is seventeen. Forever seventeen. Because of this Meyer's Vampires don't get character development. Not in the normal sense anyway.

    • @buchbummelant8980
      @buchbummelant8980 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yes. Also they cannot just move on. That's the whole point. If they change, they change indefinitely. When they fall in love, they remain to be in love. When they loose, they feel that lost forever. They cannot move on like humans, that's their tragedy of life in the Twilight universe. Once Edward fell for Bella, his options were quite limited.

  • @lagggoat7170
    @lagggoat7170 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Man, now I kinda want to read a book with the ideas you brought up. Knowledge addicted and jaded vampire at university learning to see people as more than annoying cattle/NPCs through befriending (I dont like romance plots alright) a girl whose mind he cant read but who keeps being very empathetic to everyone. Slightly "getting fixed by Quirky Girl" tbh but maybe she has issues she can learn to solve through his perspective on life - maybe she is a people pleaser who lets people walk all over her boundaries, maybe she realizes its ok to be selfish sometimes (which can be pushed in an entertaining/fucked up direction if he does Dexter-ing instead of drinking animals. Like come on, a jaded vampire who sees people as background characters? If he can justify it he would drink people. Not just killers, just people he determines arent important or who had thoughts that made him judge them to be better dead). Bella already shows hints of going along with human sacrifice (the Volturi tourist group), so maybe her deciding "its ok to be selfish" means her turning into a bad people hunting vampire...
    (Also I personally always wanted more of Leah and Seth Clearwater. The first female werewolf, bound in mind to her ex and a bunch of other guys, being judged as bitchy for not getting over her ex falling for her cousin, protective of her fellow werewolf brother, iirc member of the splinter pack in the end so there could even be more conflict there now that Vampires vs Werewolves has two parties of werewolves with different stances, evil vampires coming to town from outside, you could even push the humans into being another party (around Charlie. Charlie deserves a better role too). Its kind of impressive how many interesting ideas Twilight mentions or inspires and then just goes with the most boring one.
    As a teen for a time I also kind of wanted to write a troll fanfic where Edward and Jacob get tired of waiting for Bella to decide and end up dating each other

    • @lagggoat7170
      @lagggoat7170 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Im very much in a vampire mood currently (Dracula Daily and V Rising), so Im also thinking about combining Twilight with darker Vampire Lore aspects could be interesting. For example Dracula controlls wolves in some way - a danger for the werewolves perhaps, if a vampire with those powers were to turn up on the side of the Volturi.
      I never liked Twilight as a teen (too much romance), but I did read it (small local library sortiment of Urban Fantasy so I read any they had) and similar to Warrior Cats while it is not good itself its weirdly good at inspiring better ideas (and worse ones, but lets not remember THOSE novels).

    • @GracefulDiscension
      @GracefulDiscension 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ....Lowkey tempted to take this prompt and do something with it. Mainly a jaded cynical vampire and a empathetic but people pleaser werewolf. There's so much a writer could do with that.

  • @Bongobert
    @Bongobert 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Holy shit i‘ve finished midnight sun literally yesterday, this is the best timing! Glad to hear I wasn‘t the only one who thought edward was being hilarioisly judgemental at school 😂

  • @ViaRolyn
    @ViaRolyn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hannah Lee Kidder has a fantastic series where she edits and then eventually re-writes the first twilight book for fun. It’s very entertaining you should give it a watch especially if you’re interested in a quirky thriller angle to the story.

  • @fredrickbass4994
    @fredrickbass4994 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    HA! I remember when you said you were going to do this back in 2021. I thought it would never happen. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @5ft4inprotagonist24
    @5ft4inprotagonist24 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Daniel would probably really like twilight fanfiction

  • @AllShadesAreGray
    @AllShadesAreGray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    The thing you realize is that, even though the story is borderline absurd and definitely problematic, Stephanie Meyer is a talented writer. You see these gestures where she shows there are other genres she could have exploited and other paths she could take this material, she has stubbornly decided to make this romance thing work, despite following this program.

  • @an81angel
    @an81angel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The "emotional damage" thrown in there got me to snort giggle. Thanks for that.

  • @SlowBurnReader
    @SlowBurnReader 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    This is why I standby the series A Discovery of Witches has a way better romance and conflict and very much so feels like a mature version of twilight.

    • @Greentrees60
      @Greentrees60 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I really really disliked that series - I felt like the main female character gets less and less agency as the story progresses

  • @carpa300
    @carpa300 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Yes, who knows what magic a vampires mouth holds...

  • @LC-gw7tp
    @LC-gw7tp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Starting Twilight with Midnight Sun is wild lmao

  • @raptorgod08
    @raptorgod08 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I have never read a twilight book or seen the movies and this review auto played on TH-cam . I had some laughs due to Daniel's reactions but will not be looking to consume anymore twilight content. Sparkle

  • @KrimsonRogue
    @KrimsonRogue 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

    Man, this brought back nightmares.
    Boring, boring nightmares.

    • @DanielGreeneReviews
      @DanielGreeneReviews  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Tbh I wasn’t bored. This was weird. So weird I kinda loved it. How many times is ed going to think about killing Bella today?! Let’s strap in and see!

    • @KrimsonRogue
      @KrimsonRogue 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@DanielGreeneReviews I mean, don’t get me wrong, the scene where Ed systematically planned out how to snap his classmates’ neck was unintentionally hilarious. I think I just responded differently to Meyer's use of over-description. That pacing was like running a marathon without using your legs.

  • @SamGaleFilms
    @SamGaleFilms 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    5:35 I was not expecting this and fucking died of laughter.

  • @sonicsean34
    @sonicsean34 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    When Meyer initially cancelled the book because a draft leaked and I heard about the classroom massacre fantasy I was intrigued by the Idea (they actually filmed a version of it for the film I believe but it ended up getting cut)
    Like leaning into him being a scary psycho could be interesting (he clearly breaks into her room and watches her sleep).
    Tho from everything I've heard the book isn't self-aware enough to lean into it non-accidentally (Daniel’s mention that they don't lean into Edward being eternally stuck at 17 makes me disappointed as it is the only sane route for vampire fiction that spends time in society)
    Poor Daniel tho hope he treated himself to something nice after going through it all. I tried to read a free sample of Twilight on my Kindle once and the first chapter made Bella so unbearable that I appreciate the team on the first film even more for elevating the material into something digestible (shame about the other films)

  • @edsheeran1243
    @edsheeran1243 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The Twilight Saga is a dumpster fire, but like one that ends up leading to a beautiful fireworks show

  • @mk9beatz
    @mk9beatz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    2:38 Poor Gen Alpha 😭😭

  • @davewade30
    @davewade30 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I've got to say, I found Edward's POV much more interesting to read than the rest of the series. The look behind the curtain you get of his powers along with Jasper and Alice's was pretty cool. I'd be happy to read more of the series from Edward's perspective. Not my favorite series or author. But definitely my favorite book of the series.

  • @rhilou32
    @rhilou32 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I didn't know I needed this today, but I just saw it in my feed and OH BOY.

  • @neverhowever3231
    @neverhowever3231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    haven’t even started but as a long time semi-ironic gay twilight obsessive the opening “this is a very bad book and i absolutely loved it” got me SO HYPED

  • @jaginaiaelectrizs6341
    @jaginaiaelectrizs6341 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    23:10 - I mean... you have to remember that Twilight exists very firmly within the *_Romance_*_ genre_ specifically, so the relationship between Bella and Edward is supposed to be the whole entire plot and the main focus of all the tensions/conflicts/etceteras; literally anything and everything else beyond or other than that is just a subplot, and a subplot is literally just extra garnishing that wouldn't even have to be in the story at all and you should kinda just be grateful there is even any of that subplot frosting ever to be found anywhere on the top of any of that main relationship/cake/ whatsoever. Lol

  • @nazimelmardi
    @nazimelmardi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    When even Robert Pattinson did actively hate the books and he said it openly in his interviews… laughed on the author too… and STILL… he kept without cancel culture but they loved him! 😂 Who knows why. These Mormon and other deep religious extreme smut and toxic relationship books are why? (Yes see you Sarah J Maas too..)

    • @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm
      @MariaRodriguez-dx6sm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I mean, he wasn't wrong about what he said, just a bit rude in his delivery 🤷‍♀️.

    • @per-c8229
      @per-c8229 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah, tho I would've love to see the same support to Kristen Stuart (is that how you write her name?) she was slander for critiquing the book as much as Ed's actor ( I can't write his name sorry). I saw her for the first time in Speak and thought she war a good actor, that's actually what drove me to see twilight... I did not like it

    • @nazimelmardi
      @nazimelmardi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@per-c8229 the double standard is a well known thing but nobody will admit it for you. Rachel Zegler, star of the new Hunger Games, did literally nothing yet she was accused from nowhere that was trashed the old Snow White, she hates it and she hates men. Why would she deserve that role. Said mostly adult men. Who became super fans of the mentioned Disney princess in a second. And of course they read the story of the brothers Grimm too… because it absolutely has to be a treasure to save. That went to the point where she got death threats on her TH-cam channel in comments and her family and friends were bullied on social media for a while too. Nice isn’t it? Because she told what Disney intended to do in the new movie and it could be clipped out as they like and people of course never look up facts. The amount of hate videos on TH-cam is insane. On one point every day people made new content to create hate or to get views of that.

    • @miss1of2
      @miss1of2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@per-c8229She is a GREAT actress!!! She got way to much shut for twilight! (Loved her as Joan Jett!)

    • @MoniqueBernic
      @MoniqueBernic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You all need to remember it was literally a different era. Cancel culture and such wasn’t a thing when the Twilight movies were huge and you cannot hold peoples responses then to today’s knee-jerk culture of “cancel them for having an opinion I don’t like!”.

  • @liamwye
    @liamwye 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've never read Twilight, but I legitimately laughed hard at this review. One of the funniest I think you've ever done!

  • @bethbrown8249
    @bethbrown8249 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This video really filled my cup, I needed that 😂, thank you!

  • @missyC326
    @missyC326 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Never would I have dared hope you'd make this video. Never would have even crossed my mind. Daniel out here making dreams come true that I didn't even know I had. This is the best.

  • @thebookishpanda6992
    @thebookishpanda6992 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was amazing. I haven't read this one yet. Wasn't sure if I wanted to. Your review had me in stitches! I was laughing way too much. Maybe I will borrow Midnight Sun from the library.

  • @mahalleinir_WoT
    @mahalleinir_WoT 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The Prepatente scream at 26:01 is just 🤌

  • @neverhowever3231
    @neverhowever3231 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    the charlie psychological thriller idea is so good it makes me angry

  • @vestofholding
    @vestofholding 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    26:02: BAHAHAHA! I'm here for how unhinged this is.

  • @lady_draguliana784
    @lady_draguliana784 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent use of Steven He! 🤣

  • @sambehling2956
    @sambehling2956 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Adding 5:35 to my list of things I never ever, EVER want to see again but somehow, I already know it is burned into my subconscious and will haunt my dreams.

  • @IOSARBX
    @IOSARBX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Daniel Greene, I liked this video because it's awesome!

  • @alaskarii007
    @alaskarii007 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I mean...I've watched and read plenty of media that was considered 'bad' or 'just average' that I end up loving and remembering more often than the so called masterpieces. Sometimes you don't care how technically well something is written, you're just having a good time.

    • @sheila19954
      @sheila19954 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Okay I know how that feels but do you really apply that to Twilight? Do you enjoy the BOOK or do you enjoy talking about the book?
      I'm the target demographic but the first book in my opinion was so bloody boring. I read over half of it and just dropped it
      I think the worst thing a work of art can be is boring

    • @FireFog44
      @FireFog44 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      For me, I honestly really enjoyed the series, flaws and all. I will say that I read Twilight itself last, since I read my sister’s set of the books and she’d lent book one to a friend that never returned it. Books two was pretty meh, but three and four were a blast! By the time I read Twilight, I already liked the characters enough that it was just fun to see where it all began. Even looking back on some of the worse elements, my fondness for the series remains untouched somehow, and the Twilight lore still randomly pops up in my imagination every few months. I can’t say the same about a lot of “better” books.

  • @catwmn2345
    @catwmn2345 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Just want to thank you for the many, many laughs. Who knew my favorite thing at 48 would be listening to people trash/loving Twilight books/movies lol ❤❤

  • @Jiranu5000
    @Jiranu5000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love listening to Midnight Sun the audiobook non ironically. It makes me feel safe

  • @megnanimous.
    @megnanimous. 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I liked your first title better! 😆 It's too late for me, though. I already read all the books including Midnight Sun. 😩

  • @moonriseklingon
    @moonriseklingon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Yessssssss love the Charlie Edward New moon retelling 43:58

  • @thecaffeinatedbookwyrm3051
    @thecaffeinatedbookwyrm3051 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I don't know what I was expecting clicking on this, but you surpassed them all. I was washing dishes on my lunch break and dying laughing. Thank you for this. I might have to read the book. ❤

  • @jimpavlidis5915
    @jimpavlidis5915 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This is definitely top 5 funniest Daniel Greene video ever!!!😂

  • @thepoetesskhansaa
    @thepoetesskhansaa 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Not the Emotional Damage 😭

  • @VoxolotlDays
    @VoxolotlDays 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thank you for your service. 🖖

  • @mariahlashley9669
    @mariahlashley9669 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I love that this video is 50 min long 😂.

  • @Dolly_the_Witch
    @Dolly_the_Witch 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was great! I laughed a lot and kinda what to reread twilight now 😂

  • @AllShadesAreGray
    @AllShadesAreGray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    BBQ on the highway is perfect analogy

  • @AlysterJohnEstur
    @AlysterJohnEstur 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love the shirt you're wearing in the ad.

  • @TheDenverOmelette
    @TheDenverOmelette 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is your best video ever

  • @alessamiridis5476
    @alessamiridis5476 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was in a creative rut, I just couldn't start anything! Your video was the perfect companion! I was laughing and screaming along while I finally got things doneee! ❤️

  • @Kafia_
    @Kafia_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love this so much 😂 more please

  • @MoonieLuni
    @MoonieLuni 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Why do I like this? Why do I want to keep reading?
    I felt that, everytime I pick a bok TikTok recommends

  • @saharadessertart
    @saharadessertart 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love that Daniel never fails to incorporate Not like us.

  • @InnocentNoodle
    @InnocentNoodle 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    10:50
    BRUH
    I choked so hard from laughing that my cats started freaking out wtf 😂

  • @TheFantazingo
    @TheFantazingo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Regarding the "posing as teenagers, when they could pass as older"
    Allow me to quote the movies
    "the younger we start out, the longer we can stay in one place"
    Yes its a iffy explanation, but there is one provided by the story at least.

  • @chichonete
    @chichonete 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So happy you're doing this!

  • @kirstendickinson1361
    @kirstendickinson1361 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When I checked the video length after he guessed 30 mins, realized it ended up being 50 made me laugh 😂

  • @jaginaiaelectrizs6341
    @jaginaiaelectrizs6341 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    28:35 - I appreciate your spiel about healthy relationships and boundaries[ and such] SO MUCH. Thank you! ...pretty much sums up why I only ever read Twilight because I knew people who begged me to read it just so they could talk to me about it without me having no idea what they were talking about and because I too was a child of divorce and didn't find the idea of hurling myself out of a moving vehicle more preferable than just continuing to pass the time by reading Twilight while stuck in a car for hours long car-rides across State lines between my parents' houses, but that was basically the only time I read it, when I was stuck in a moving vehicle and 'could not' escape. Lol
    It kinda seems like people who romanticize Romeo and Juliet sometimes forget that Romeo only killed himself because he thought that Juliet had literally already died[ it wasn't really something he thought about or planned on doing before then] but he was wrong and she woke up to find that he was real-dead and killed herself because of how awful that was and the whole entire thing is one giant _tragedy_ like a cautionary tale of everything NOT to do.

  • @crose9613
    @crose9613 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Bro should've had his friend, I think it was Maddie, she's been pushing for you to read Twilight

    • @nihilasta2661
      @nihilasta2661 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They got it on a PDGDBAB video back when they did them. Those videos are unlisted/unavailable anymore which is a shame I loved the chaos of them

  • @loganismaximus9815
    @loganismaximus9815 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I didn’t even know this book from Ed’s pov existed and this shit is weird yet very fitting lmao! Daniel, do you have any plans on reading The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice? I think that would be a very interesting series for you to go through and I’ve been curious to what your thoughts would be on those for a while. Would also be keeping with the vamp theme lol

  • @camillerijess
    @camillerijess 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    40:15 pretty much sums up the entire Twilight reading experience 😆

  • @Fendi106
    @Fendi106 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    In SM universe the vampires stay in the mental state or age when they were turned....so yeah Edward is a 17teen yrs old and is stuck being like this for evaaaaa

    • @cyagami90
      @cyagami90 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You cannot live for a century and not mature. Idc what she wrote you cannot hold that much knowledge and still think like a child. Its a cop out so he can be an "acceptable" pedo

    • @rica3947
      @rica3947 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      i mean she says that but at the same time it it contradicts the canon because Edwards is clearly affected by all the time that has passed. simply the fact that he perceives himself to be so much older than all the other kids at high school indicates that.

  • @patkov5831
    @patkov5831 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Im sorry Daniel, but the Valazan set behind you scratches my brain in all the wrong ways, please fix it LMAO

  • @Melleanah
    @Melleanah 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This review was a pleasant surprise for me this morning. 😊

  • @asmrglow
    @asmrglow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Why would you do this to yourself Daniel

    • @asmrglow
      @asmrglow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      whatever we all say the movie was a cultural RESET

  • @the_secrets_of_silver_clouds
    @the_secrets_of_silver_clouds 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love this!

  • @drewtheunspoken3988
    @drewtheunspoken3988 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    At the height of Twilight popularity I gave her the benefit of the doubt and tried to read the first book. I couldn't get past the second page.
    I understand that I am nowhere near her target audience but I can't imagine anyone getting drawn in by her (diplomatically put) simple writing style.

    • @sethkeown5965
      @sethkeown5965 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I was a mid grade highschooler when these came out. I did the same, read to have a basis or critique, and boy...my reputation was destroyed, but my reading standard had been set well above those books.

    • @readaholicgirl_5
      @readaholicgirl_5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I read them when I was in highschool and I found them enjoyable in the way it numbed my brain. Like when you're watching a trashy show and normally you wouldn't watch these kinds of trainwrecks but it's entertaining enough to keep watching. I get the same feeling with the movies.
      Are they boring but overdramatic? Yes.
      But will I keep watching (/reading)? Also yes. 🤷

    • @drewtheunspoken3988
      @drewtheunspoken3988 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@readaholicgirl_5 I've, uh, watched the movies. Maybe even more than once. As much as I can't get into Meyer's writing style there's something oddly appealing in the movies.

    • @readaholicgirl_5
      @readaholicgirl_5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@drewtheunspoken3988 , yes. There's just something about it. Will I pop Twilight on the TV willingly? Probably not, but if I see it playing I'm suddenly marathoning it. From start to finish.
      The books had that quality for me when I read them. I can feel my brain switch off and just go autopilot as I read. Weird feeling but idk, I can deal with bad writing I guess??

  • @mackenzies.g.9862
    @mackenzies.g.9862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the review I never knew I needed haha

  • @chichonete
    @chichonete 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I know the storylines she chooses are weird but I honestly think she's a good writer, there's a scene in new moon that is one of the most memorably well written scenes I've ever read. I also really did enjoy The Host. I have a feeling if you enjoyed this you would really enjoy reading her version of aliens lol

  • @Miss_Myth
    @Miss_Myth 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    First 10 seconds of the video: Yes. That is the correct response. Perfect review, 10/10 😂🥇❤️