The song for this chapter is Sorry by Buckcherry
[audio:https://twilightguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sorry.mp3]
Oh jetlag: how you plague me. I am writing this from my bed, with Breaking Dawn propped up on one side and my laptop on the other. Two weeks is far too long to go without reading, even with Book Expos and Disneyland. I promise, I have NOT been avoiding Breaking Dawn because I am fearful of the impending blood drinking scene. That would be totally unlike me, because I am not at all sickened by the thought of drinking blood, and I am completely comfortable with the idea of watching Bella consume it in deep, bloody detail.
But for serious, the past two weeks have been a whirlwind, and I’ve barely had time to eat, much less blog about anything. It is here that I must warn anyone reading this post that I am still suffering from severe jetlag, having hit both the west and east US coasts in one week, taken four flights and stayed up past 3 AM last night waiting for the YouTube maintenance to end so I could upload the New Moon teaser trailer in its full, sparkling HD glory. So, if I only make half the sense as usual, crack the worst jokes, and call Jacob by the wrong name (like Timnkumbodle Bandersnatch?) you now know why (and will feel no obligation to report me to St. Rita’s Hospital For The Mentally Deranged).
Where we left off last time, Edward and the Vamps were headed off to get Bella some blood to drink. As stereotypical vampire as that sounds, it is probably one of the better ideas that they’ve had so far, though one I find hard to imagine without wanting to clutch my stomach. Do they just open a spigot and pour some out for Bella? If it’s in the house, how do they resist the smell? And what happens if an outsider stumbles upon said barrel?
The most shocking thing about this could be some of the comments left on my last post regarding the blood-drinking thing. The mothers who told me things similar to “wellllll when you’re pregnant you crave some pretty strange things!” do not put my fears in a happy place. So I am leaving myself to assume that the comments were meaning ‘pretty strange things’ as in ‘Olives in chocolate ice cream and pretzel sticks’ and not what Bella seems to be craving.
I didn’t really need to read the line about Carlisle and Rosalie wondering if they should warm the blood up for Bella. I am thankful though that Edward thought enough to have Rosalie put the red liquid into a cup that was not clear. This episode of distasteful drinking brings back glorious childhood memories during my mother’s health craze. There was one specific thing she had me drink which we had aptly titled the Concrete Drink, because the liquid was so gray, powdery and lumpy, it very much resembled a freshly-mixed cup of the unhardened gray rock. To drink it, I had to close my eyes so that I didn’t have to look at the awful concoction before gurgling it down. *
I do understand the connection though: since the vampire baby is growing inside of Bella, naturally it will want nourishment, like any womb-inhabiting child does anyway. But since the child is vampiric, it seems to basically be starving through lack of blood: or perhaps, feeding off of Bella herself. Of course Bella will like the taste of the blood: it is what her child needs, and what her body has been telling her to ingest in order to keep the child alive. Grossness aside, they’re actually all on the right track here.
There is some obvious tension between the werewolves that has already started to split up their families. Of course none of them really want this, but there is a very big power struggle between Sam and Jacob now that can’t simply be resolved by delaying the attack on the Cullens. Now that Jacob is on his own, he wants to be his own boss.
And oh Jacob Black, and your obvious lack of clothing. It simply isn’t enough to just go without a shirt now. I’m sure it was completely and utterly unintentional for you to shred all your clothes and suddenly be forced to walk around without them 😀
QUESTION FOR THE COMMENTS: Now that you have seen the New Moon trailer and Jacob turning into a werewolf, does it change how you picture it in the books?
——NOTES——
*however, remembering the Concrete Drink suddenly makes Bella drinking blood not all that gross. YES it was THAT BAD.
– I am ALMOST to 30,000 subscribers on my YouTube channel! As promised, I will be giving away epic prizes, including a hardcover copy of TWILIGHT autographed by Stephenie Meyer (and more)!
113 Responses
I didn't think she would drink either, but BD was full of surprises.
Hm… yes, I suppose it does change it, but only slightly. I imagined Jacob as more of a snarling, DIE DIE DIE (!) type of wolf, though with some sort of doggishness in it's expression (Or as much of an expression as a wolf can have). All in all, I like the way the wolf looks.
That concrete drink sounds ABYSMAL. I pity you. My mother only drinks something that looks like liquid grass, and I don't have to down it myself. 🙂
I think they got the wolf formation dead on.
oh, and about Jacob, it doesn't change how I picture it in the books. Probably because I had those images in my head since way before the movie came out. But I see the books and the movies differently..does that make sense?
I didnt think she would drink it either. and like someone before me said Breaking Dawn was full of suprises
I see Jacob as a wolf very differently now.I can finally picture a wolf the size of a horse. =D lol
lol, honestly it doesn't change the way I pictured it.
I had to drink liquid charcoal once.
I'd prefer to drink blood, personally.
You look like Chris Weitz in that picture….
The movies will never change how I pictured it in the books.
I just think going to the trouble of making Bella faint at the smell of blood in Twilight and then having her DRINK blood in Breaking Dawn is too much of a difference. Like it would make more sense if she seemed more opposed to the idea, but when she likes it that's going a bit far.
I never recovered from the whole pregnancy thing. Drinking blood is just one more thing to swallow in the total.
Is it called CHLOROPHYLL? And tastes like mint? That was another of my mom's drinks 😀
Actually, I was surprised that Jacob turning into a werewolf was exactly like I thought it would be (is it making any sense in English?? ^_^)! I feel relieved, because I feared they messed up this part, but they didn't! It's a good point for Chris Weitz (: Now, I just can't wait 'til November to see the full movie!!
The contest is going to be awesome!! :DD
The Jacob wolf is almost exactly how I pictured him while reading the books, so there isn't too much of a difference there. I did expect him to look a little more menacing. The one that we see just seems a little more dog-like and not scary wolf-like. That's just what I expected.
Meghan O
The main difference between what I was picturing of the phasing of the werewolves and what they show in the trailer, is that I was picturing more of a gradual (ie. slower) change. More “Hulk”ish in transition. The teaser trailer shows it so quickly that if you blink, you miss it. But maybe the first time they show him phasing it will be slower. Nov. 20th can't come soon enough!
Yes, very different.
I imagined him darker for one, and it looked like a fuzzy-wolf/bear. It looked like something you could cuddle up with. 🙂
the books are always different than how you picture it in the books.
Im a little disappointed in the trasformation, though the birthday party was awesome!
I remember when I was six and some girl cut her knee. Our teacher told her to suck the blood and it would stop. Thank god I never fell down.
The Change was how I thought it would be the wolf is no so much but still good cant wait to see them all together as a pack the full force ;-).
as for Bella drinking the blood some have said that because she fainted in twilight she shouldnt be able to drink it in BD but that is the power of a mother anything that your child needs you give 'Plus que mar propra vie” 'MORE THAN MY OWN LIFE” I so get that I thought it showed her strength as a mother 🙂
I have a tatoo that has my daughters name and that in french under it from the book I think it sums up how most mothers and fathers think of there children xxx
Wow, the whole drinking blood thing didn't gross me out, though I can't imagine doing it myself. I've never even sucked a cut finger. It just doesn't appeal to me.
Phasing was one of the few things in the book I never actually watched play out in my head. So now that I've seen the trailer, that's how I'll see it. I just have trouble imagining things I've never seen before (or at least something similiar)
Haha! My friend's mom makes her drink chlorophyll so she made me try it once when I slept over!
You bring up a good point about Jake walking around naked… hmmmm… now I can't wait to see Breaking Dawn (and naked LEGAL Jake) on the BIG screen!! hehe!!
Funny chapter post as usual.
Yes, I never really imagined how the transformation might look, so now I finally have a visual.
Love from Norway
– Keep it up
Yea it does look different then what I pictured. He's more dog like and less like a big scary wolf then I thought he should be and it looked a little more cartoony then i would've liked. But still, Nov. 20th can't come soon enough!
I wasn't surprised by the blood drinking. She's pregnant with a half-vampire – just makes sense to me.
As for Jake's transformation – I thought it was cool, but the wolf looks a little too cartoonish. I'd like to see a little more menacing creature.
You may still be shocked by some things in this book. Prepare yourself for a bumpy ride!!
the wolf at the beginning is to cute and fuzzy, not scary at all. when it snarls then it looks close, but it's too cgi for kids.
Hehe great post Kaleb. Wow that drink sounds disgusting, poor you.
Even though it said in the book that the wolves were meant to be as big as horses i could never really picture that so no it's not so different from what i imagined. The could have been maybe a little bigger but hey i won't even be watching the wolves, i'll just be waiting for edward to come back as i did with the book!
For me, I don't think the trailer will change how i think of Jacob's wolf.
Jacob's wolf in the trailer looks like a stuffed dog I used to play with when I was five.
I would cuddle with it, and somehow, I don't think werewolves are supposed to looked cuddly.
hahaha. that concrete drink sounds DISGUSTING! as for the blood drinking. that was pretty bad too. i am not fond of blood. lol ok i think it should be in your body and not out. lol so for me i thought it was gross. i understand why but man i was gagging alittle. hahaha.
Have you ever been in a blood situation?
I have. This kid hit another kid's face and blood spluttered all over the floor. the most gore-ist thing i have ever seen
It wasnt so bad, but it doesnt count that you know how a bloody situation feels unless you have been in an incident like that.
poor kaleb, im sorry you have such a weak stomach
Are you ready for SUPER nasty? The little sister of one of my friends used to love the taste of blood…in its congealed form. She would pick off her scabs and eat them. Then, as if that isn't bad enough, she'd ask if she could have our scabs too!! EWWWWWW!
I think Jacob-as-wolf needs to be larger. Although it was hard to tell the scale from the trailer, but he needs to be horse/bear size. The color is “russet” which is perfect, but he needs to look less “cuddly husky” and more “werewolf monster.” They haven't had too much time to work on the special effects though, so I'm sure that the finished product in November will be even better. Yay!
BTW Kaleb, you told me to contact your publicist so I can get a copy of “Bran Hambric;” how exactly do I go about doing that?
My parents went on an all-liquid diet a couple years ago… those “shakes,” which were supposedly chocolate- and strawberry-flavored, looked like lumpy brown/pink curdled milk, and smelled even worse. Although it seems that the concrete drink would be worse.
As for Jacob turning in to a wolf, I agree with CarolB790 to an extent. Seeing the first movie changed my perception of what the school and town looked like, and the Cullens' home was obviously different than the book's description. But there are some parts that my brain just won't change when I read the book, the werewolves included in this. I think it's probably because I read the books before I ever saw the first movie. But who knows, perhaps once I see New Moon my perceptions will change again. It's hard to say from just one short clip : )
*should really be sleeping since exams starts tomorrow but…..*
LOL so you joined the club of people that was disgusted by the scene! Hahaha… Oddly enough I'm one of those weirdos that wasn't the least bit disturbed by the scene. I accepted the logic and moved on… As for the Jacob turning into a wolf thing, the wolflosion (yes, I'm the same person as Sakura2miaka from youtube XD ) was exactly as I imagined it! I guess Chris Weiz really is the best man for the job (though that's obvious considering how he marvelously managed to create Pullman's Daemons in the Golden Compass)
Yah, I agree. They are two diffrent things. The way they make them is the way they imagine them to be. They could literly make hundreds of versions of one movie to get it the way everyone thinks it should be.
As always Kaleb, you crack me up! I will excuse your ill insaneness. I'm just glad you FINALLY got around to reading more! Honestly, you're out of school, and now that you're back from your book tour, you have no real excuse for putting this off!
Anywho….
Frankly, I was not impressed by Jacob's transformation into a wolf in the trailer. But I was not dissapointed, considering I could honestly care less about Jacob and the wolves in general. No offense to any Jacob lovers around here. I can't help by laugh and say Jacob is a cute wolf! LOL! He seriously was a cute little mutt! But that's just me. =)
I hated that scene when I read Breaking Dawn for the first time! I detest blood, so I DID NOT like when Bella slurped it down. *shudders* I love you as THA BOSS. Have you seen that Saturday Night Live skit?? I like Jacob the wolf, but I think the transformation looks kind of weird. It reminded me of the 4th Harry Potter movie when he's turning into the Gilly Weed thing for the second challenge. Too fake looking, and not at all like I pictured it. 🙁
I'm really not trying to be b*tchy, but I was looking through that part, & Bella says that the transforming was was so fast that if she would have blinked she would've missed it. Just thought I'd say that. 😀 Anyway, I really pictured the wolves as these HUGE, dark monsters. The Jacob wolf in the trailer looks like a puppy compared to the things I was thinking of. BUT, I really don't think it ruined it for me I still love the look they came up with & i definitely am liking the transformation. 😀
I wasn't disgusted by the blood at all. In fact it didn't even not make sense to me. She has a half vamp baby inside her that is HUNGRY she needs to feed her child!
In my head he'll always be bigger, and darker. AKA more menacing. The wolf in the movie just seemed more like a fox or dog than a wolf. Especially WEREwolf.
I think the wolf TRANSFORMATION is awesome…
The wolf is too cute though! Jacob is NOT supposed to be a cuddly little pup! Jeez, every time I see it, I start THINKING with a lisp, and acting like I'm five with a cute little puppy dog.
^Overuse of the word “cute”^
^Couldn't care less^
With the Jacob thing yes I think as Jacob more more more hotter than what I thought haha. Just cause of Taylor. He does the part well. 😉 and I wouldnt think she would drink it but she did which was good.
Parts of BD are very hard to read, just like parts of MN are hard to read, and I'm not talking about reading ability, just some parts are gross and some parts are heartrending, and some parts you want to hit the characters with a 2 x 4.
And Bella just sits around drinking bloodshakes for a while.
That is not as bad to me as Jacob hanging out there while Edward is worried about his pregnant and sick wife.
the phasing was exactly what i had originally pictured
O and how is this weird for you? You do realize your reading a vampire book? The blood drinking was bound to come up sooner or later… HAHA
You said you were going to do a frame-by-frame of Jake becoming a wolf in the trailer… I was wondering… would you mind doing a frame-by-frame of Jasper and Bella? Jw! =) Have a nice night!
I was really glad, actually, that the way Jacob changed in the movie was just like I pictured him changing in the book. He exploded into the wolf in midair as he was running and the way they did it was really good! I do have to say that, like a lot of the rest of the people who have commented, I did picture a little more ferocity in the wolf form. But still, I don't have too big of an issue with it because he still just looks like a wolf – a huge wolf – but not really a monster.
As to the blood drinking scene, I have to say that I was only somewhat disgusted by the whole thing. The thought of drinking blood makes my stomach turn, but that Bella had to drink it to save her own life as well as her child's made sense. I mean, it makes sense to crave the things that the baby needs, and if the half-vampire baby needs blood, that's what she's going to crave. I think that's probably what I was thinking more about through the scene, rather than really taking in that she was drinking blood. And as an additional side note, I think there is very little a mother wouldn't do to save her child if she had it in her power to do so.
As always, love the posts, Kaleb!
BTW glad you can see past the grossness and see the logic behind it all.
i still utterly adore these books no matter what the trailers do. But the movies are officially ruined
Too those who think the transition is too fast to be like the books Bella said herself in New Moon “it happened so fast that if I blinked I would have missed it.” I for one like the wolf except… i it just me or does that wold have blue eyes?
Oh Kaleb.. you were never that much of a Jacob fan to begin with, but i'm starting to see you lose your former sense of impartiality :/ (i thought you'd love reading Jake's POV. Guess not.)
In terms of the transformation, i liked how smooth the change was, but the wolf was too CGI for me. I liked the idea of having such beautiful fur that you'd automatically want to touch it.. not odd bristling pixelated fur. I understand that's probably as close as its going to get so i'm not going to complain, cause Chris Weitz did absolutely amazing for everything else in the trailer/clip!! However, what REALLY threw me off was with the wolf having blue/green eyes (as the person above me stated.) I was like.. where did THAT come from?
The were wolves are slightly different than i pictured them…
The only real difference I imagined is the color. Jacob's fur isn't as “russet” as I thought it would be. Of course, my definition of russet is the color of his skin. I have no clue what “russet” really looks like, and I have no intention of actually finding out…
I guess they could be a little bigger, though…
But, overall, I am EXTREMELY pleased with Chris Weitz. The transformation (from human to wolf) was so unbelievably perfect that, just after seeing the trailer on MTV, I got up and squealed and ran around the house like the stupid fangirl I am.
……………………
Man, I never thought I'd like something so mainstream. Then again, Twilight wasn't this crazily popular when I first heard of it… So that gives me a little peace of mind…
But, dude, can I get off topic! LOL! Okay, well, I'm going to shut up now…
Before I go, though, to answer the original question, no, the movie wolves and the book wolves stay in their own little corners–more like halves–of my mind. The same goes for pretty much all of the characters. [Like Edward. I NEVER pictured him as Rob Pattinson. Same with Emmett… Although Kellan definitely doesn't displease me…] Anyway, I picture the book wolves no differently than I did before. The movie and the books, in my mind, are two COMPLETELY different things…