Twilight’s TV Remake Can Finally Undo 15 Years Of Sparkly Vampire Jokes
For 15 years, the Twilight series has been plagued with jokes about “sparkly vampires,” but now an upcoming TV remake has a chance to fix that. Twilight tells the story of Bella, a teenage girl who discovers the boy she’s falling in love with, Edward, is actually a 109-year-old vampire. The wildly popular book series was first adapted into a movie in 2008, and now a Twilight reboot TV show is coming. Twilight’s popularity didn’t shield it from ridicule, and new show has an opportunity to fix certain details that didn’t land in the movies, like the vampires’ sparkling.
The series reinterprets vampire lore in unique ways, including the legend that vampires combust in the sun. In Twilight, instead of catching on fire, they sparkle with the brilliance of a diamond when exposed to direct sunlight. Though the vampires are spared death by combustion, their glitter-like skin was an easy target for jokes. Twilight is full of meme-worthy moments and iconically silly quotes, but the sparkly “skin of a killer” actually has the potential to be a really cool aspect of the Twilight TV remake if it’s executed well.
Twilight’s TV Show Remake Has A Chance To Fix The Original Movies’ Sparkly Vampires
Because of the story’s cloud-heavy setting in Forks, Washington, there aren’t many scenes that feature the vampires’ sparkly skin, and the reboot should respect that. However, this means that the scenes that do show off the vampires’ skin can really stand out and steal the show without eating up too much of the show’s special effects budget. The movies’ “sparkles” were more of a light shimmer, and in retrospect, the effect is rather underwhelming. More advanced CGI will give the reboot the opportunity to show the vampires as they were described in the books: dazzling.
The Twilight books stress that the diamond-like skin is a ploy to attract prey, and the new series could give audiences a look at what it would look like for human-hunting vampires like James, Victoria, and Laurent to use their skin as a weapon. Seeing the danger associated with the hypnotic aspect of the sparkling might just give it the edge it needs for audiences to take the effect seriously.
How The Twilight Show Can Use Sparkly Vampires To Its Advantage
Now that the series has had time to find its place in pop culture, the Twilight TV reboot can be strategic in the way it portrays certain details. The special effects team will be well aware that the vampires’ sparkles are something that viewers will be waiting for, and they can be prepared to make the end result breathtaking. The show might also decide to avoid looking silly by beating the audience to making jokes. Having one of the less-serious characters like Emmett drop a few lines poking fun at the sparkles would make the entire situation self-aware.
The sparkling skin of Twilight’s vampires might serve to lure in prey like a flower growing on a Venus fly trap, but it also attracted jokes at its own expense. If there’s one thing this upcoming reboot can achieve, it’s fixing audiences’ reception of the sparkly vampires and other details by giving them more attention than the movies were able to do. Twilight’s TV reboot has big shoes to fill, but its version of “sparkly vampires” might just be the trick to undoing a decade and a half of jokes.
