Chrystal Johnson didn’t think there was anything unhealthy about her all-consuming fixation with “The Twilight Saga” ”” until she discovered it was sucking the life out of her marriage.
“I found poems my husband had written in his journal about how I had fallen for a ‘golden-eyed vampire,’ ” says Johnson, a 31-year-old accountant from Mesa, Ariz., who became so enthralled by the blockbuster series of young adult novels and movies that she found herself staying up all night, re-reading juicy chapters and chatting about casting news and the are-they-or-aren’t-they romance between the stars of the films, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.
” ‘Twilight’ was always on my mind, to the point where I couldn’t function,” Johnson says.
Anyone who has ever peeked inside a comic-book convention or gone to a late-night screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” knows that some pop-culture fans aren’t exactly known for their moderation. But there are some key differences distinguishing “Twilight” groupies and their seemingly bottomless obsession from that of other entertainment junkies.
I caught this movie on cable last night. Boring….
According to a review I read, the philosophical framework of the [i]Twilight[/i] books is not Christian; it is Mormon. Even if this were a valuable series in and of itself, though, the obsession is unhealthy.