windemere | Warning! Warning! Warning!

I didn't think it was possible in this fandom, but I made friends today. With normal people. Who are doing Masters degrees in science. And have a brain. And agree with me. Oh, thank God.

I'm really tired. I mean, it started about half way through Eclipse and I just really wanted to lie down for a bit. But since I made it through two and a half movies, I ate more candy and kept going, because the best was still to come. I was completely indescribable going into today (yesterday). I had no idea what to expect or how I would feel. I still really don't. Many parts of me are rejoicing like a fangirl, other parts are just too tired to care, other parts are trying to work up the ambition to be annoyed, and still one other part is just repeating OMG NO MORE BLOND a lot.[Funny, one of the other two girls I went with was just as much of a Carlisle fan, but she had no idea that Peter looks better as a brunette. I told her to Google it.]

This is not going to be a rehash. There's no need. If you've read Breaking Dawn then that's what happened in the movie. Even a lot of Jacob's stuff was in it, though not reallyfrom Jacob's perspective. They didn't cut corners with the hard scenes. They didn't butcher the 'good' dialogue. They stuck to what they had, and Bill Condon, my man, I am so comfortable about the next (last) movie I can't even explain. You may actually have made me love these films (although I am probably never going to be able to watch the last 20 minutes of BD ever again. My squick factor can't take it). Although, it might have been Jacob's earlier line of 'I think I'm going to be sick' when Bella starts drinking blood that sort of did me in. It was a slow slide in candy-induced nausea after that.

I don't have any complaints. I mean, I've got quite a few with the book, but if I put those aside, I've no complaints with how this translated onto the screen. It's certainly better than the others. It was, however, a series of endlessly awkward moments and I hid my face in my scarf for a lot of it. And all of the wedding night. But I read the book with one eye closed, so I'd have to say, if that's what they were going for, Spot On!

I cried. Charlie got me going before the wedding. Emmett got me laughing. Jessica had me laughing and crying in laughter, and then Renee had me on the floor. And then I sobered up for the wedding night, flag waved for Bella during the subsequent two weeks of no sex, and then spent the rest of the movie tied between feeling sorry for Charlie, sorry for Leah and sorry for wanting to kick some sense into Jacob, because man almighty did he suffer the consequences of his choices. The imprinting scene? I have no idea how Nikki Reed didn't laugh in every single take, but apparently they found one in which she didn't. I did it for her.

I do understand why teenagers love this. I get why moms with husbands love this. I get why twenty-something single women (and many not single) love this. Because despite everything, despite how much I should hate it and despite the fact that I just cannot get into the books like the 'fans' do; tonight, I loved this.

I'll let you know if that changes.

[And the soundtrack? Amazing. And you know how I judge.]

I totally have a date already for the last installment next year!