Twilight's Most Unbelievable Part? Edward's Love Life Before Bella
Yes, Edward Cullen is extremely handsome and attractive, but also... very old-school.
Stephenie Meyer's first book in the vampire saga Twilight was released in 2005 and united fans who got obsessed with Edward and Bella's love story.
The lip-biting Kristen Stewart and the neck-biting Robert Pattinson were not known to the general public, and director Catherine Hardwicke had little time to shoot and a budget of $37 million, rather small for the genre.
But against all odds, Twilight has achieved unprecedented popularity.
Stephenie Meyer has created a beautiful story of first love where chastity takes place – at Edward's insistence, his first time with Bella happened only after the wedding.
This is wonderful, of course, but when you look at an attractive vampire who has lived in the world for more than a hundred years, it is hard to believe that he has waited so long for his first time.
In the books, however, this is heavily emphasized. As a human, Edward lived in the early 20th century, and although he seemed to adapt to the changing world in almost every way, he remained old-fashioned when it came to intimacy.
The first time can only be after marriage, period. Also, the books mention that vampires choose their mates for life, so it's unlikely that Edward had affairs before Bella.
Furthermore, in the fourth Twilight book, Stephenie Meyer created an absolutely insane fantasy that not only resets the entire vampire essence, but also has some problems with logic.
And yet: Edward and Bella somehow managed to conceive a vampire child.
For all pregnant fans who grew up with The Twilight Saga, the scene where Kristen Stewart's character gives birth is still some kind of a nightmare.
It is noteworthy that none of the other Cullens could conceive a child.
Edward's infertility is not explained in any way, even Carlisle – the only doctor in the family – couldn't give the audience an answer to a perfectly normal question: how can a man who died in the 19th century impregnate a woman living in the 21st century?
Fortunately for the creators of Twilight, the fans decided not to go into physiological details and were sincerely happy about the new social unit.