The Twilight Saga

He'd been training, cameras rolled, and he tore his butt cheek.

That actor was Robert Pattinson, and the film was Twilight.

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They're not the main handful of vampires.

Oh, and Twilight.

Sorry.

Twilight.

I meant to say Twilight.

Twilight, Interview with a Vampire, and Buffy, depending on how old you are.

You mean the original Interview with a Vampire? Yeah.

Not the series that's coming currently.

Death, and joining me as always is my co-host, Law Urena.

And this time, we are talking about the film from 1987 that was considered the 80s Twilight by some people, to the point that they, even after Twilight came out, re-released it on Blu-ray and made the cover look like it was from out of Twilight for some weird fucking reason.

Oh, blow me.

The movie is called Near

She gave him everlasting life.

I'm going to throw up.

Yeah, that one was very Twilight-esque.

And then finally, blood is our life, darkness our feeding ground, and sunlight our eternal damnation.

The whole reason why Phantom Spaces grew in quarantine was just simply nostalgia.

This led to people, like, buying more games, like Among Us and Animal Crossing and, like, watching more nostalgic... watching more nostalgic content like Twilight, Avatar, The Last Airbender, and Harry Potter, and fans heavily utilized online spaces for comfort and community, with significant increases in anime, fandom, and fan-driven social activism.

I remember that too.

again quarantine everyone's bored we need something to do and not everyone was getting drunk so what will you do we went online watched our favorite movies and tv shows we found some fan fiction we read it until dawn chatted up with strangers online back to the whole topic of like shipping When it comes to like shipping, its history does go back to Star Trek with people liking the pair Kirk and Spock.

yeah uh you know remedy does seem like they would make better shows than games honestly yeah honestly i would watch the alan wake show like i would be super interested in watching that show right um if they had done that instead I liked when they had the, I don't know, when I wasn't playing the game and I was watching the stuff.

Like, they had their, what was it, their Twilight Zone knockoff.

Oh, fuck.

The night something in it.

And I would just, I would watch that entirety, in its entirety, just because I was like, oh, that's, you know, it's like the Twilight Zone.

I like this.

Mm-hmm.

So, like, I don't know.

And I want to blend them together.

And with a side order of Twilight, I want a meaningful, maybe romantic story in there.

That's what I want from you.

And that's when I hired him as a work for hire to write for me.

Mushrooms? No.

I think, you know what it is? It's someone who looks exactly like Robert Pattinson from Twilight playing Edward Cullen.

So it's that sort of dark brooding... maybe sparkly because i see them as sparkly uh but high cheekbones sort of like a little bit of woof to the hair like you don't understand me that kind of vibe um yeah that's the that's the image i have in my head

there is a young boy in the village whose name you don't know who looks virtually identical to that if he was also roughly 14 years old And each and every one of you spot this child peeking out at you from the bushes.

So I have really sharp fang teeth.

And I was like, haven't you heard of Twilight vampires? Yeah.

And, you know, I kind of pivoted.

I was like, you know what? I've always loved voiceover.