Bella has escaped the airport through the daring and creative move of walking out the door and hopping in a shuttle and then a cab. I've said numerous times that she is neither possesses the intelligence or the ingenuity that she would like us to believe, but despite that her plan worked. At her mom's house she does as James asked her dialing the number on the phone. Again James answers with a playful voice that is befitting someone who is outsmarting someone that is completely below his level. I wonder if Moriarty had this voice when he was taunting any opponent other than Sherlock Holmes...then again probably not. Moriarty was too smart to actually make contact with his other victims.
"Unless you didn't come alone, of course.' Light, amused." First off there is no way that he can know whether or not Bella is alone. The only reasonable motive for her to actually be alone is fear of James and his mother. Secondly what is with that second sentence? It's clearly not a sentence since it contains only two adjectives, I've been seeing this more and more in fiction which leads me to believe that this is either being taught somewhere or some extremely popular writer used it a decade ago. The placement of the comma is even more confounding because at this point why should the writer even pretend to be using the rules of grammar?
Bella is instructed to leave her mother's house and go to the dance studio around the corner. This seems unnecessary. If she's already alone why make her do something else to attract attention? Maybe I should cut James some slack as he could just be exercising caution, let's go with that as it actually makes some sense. If Bella showed up with the Cullens in tow he might not notice it right away, but making her go to another location in the sun would certainly indicate the presence of the other undead. She opens the Dance studio door which has a sign indicating that the place is closed for Spring Break. Yeah, sure whatever. A private studio wouldn't close for Spring Break, it has no reason to, in fact it might stay open as its customers wouldn't have school to interrupt their lessons there.
"Bella? Bella? That same tone of hysterical panic." Bella hears her mother's voice, but the "as" is misplaced if she's not going to tell us what it refers to. The tone she heard on the phone earlier? The general tone she uses because she has mental issues? We don't know, but then we find out.
Bella looks around for her mother and instead sees a television playing a tape from a vacation they took several years ago. It would seem that James has pulled a ruse. A well done ruse I might add. Apparently I need to backtrack a little bit in my entries because James really did a good thing here. Everything that I have said previously about James and the hostage situation and how dumb it was has to be retracted, he never had a hostage. So while Alice and Jasper were keeping vigil (although not as vigilant as they ought to have) over Bella's mother's house it was all for naught. They would never have seen anything because Alice's vision of him going through the tapes was completely accurate. They just thought it was more than it was, such must be the trouble with being able to see the future.
The only thing wrong that James did, although it worked out for him, was assume that his opponents were completely stupid. It wasn't wrong in this case, because they are, but he assumed that Bella would do exactly as he asked with no backup plan. He's either really new at this or really old at this. The former because it's quite a risk, the latter because he could just really understand his prey. "Sorry about that Bella, but isn't it better that your mother didn't really have to be involved in all this?"
Ah the polite villain. While I can't actually back this up with evidence I do wonder if this has its origin in "The Final Problem" where Holmes and Moriarty meet having a relatively polite conversation. Now it's such a trope that we are almost shocked when our villains act like villains. Another trope Meyer exploits here is the idea that the villain must explain his actions to the protagonist. Instead of just killing Bella he has to go into a monologue about how beneath him she is, how the Cullens were so easily duped, and how the two of them are now meeting in the studio.
The biggest problem with this is that by not knowing how everything worked out James seems that much more impressive. When he explains what happened it makes his plan seem less and less impressive because those he was outwitting acted really oblivious. Here's what we can piece together: James headed North behind Edward and Carlisle. Victoria stayed behind where Esme tracked her around Charlie's house. So far the Cullens have their ridiculous plan working. Then Victoria gives up on Charlie and somehow finds out more information on Bella which she then communicates to James. James just stops heading North and flies directly to Phoenix. We should note that Phoenix had always been the destination of Bella, Alice, and Jasper. When James disappeared, no one thought to either follow him or head to Phoenix, where I should note they were going to head eventually anyway. Not one of the super-awesome Cullens ever thought to watch Bella's mother's house or at least inquire as to her location. Edward couldn't read James's mind to determine anything. If, Bella is killed then the Cullens are as responsible as she is. This is the most incompetent group of guards to work outside of the James Bond universe.
It also gets a little eye-rollingly coincidental as James explains that the only time he had ever been outsmarted is when he went after a young woman under the care of an older vampire in an insane asylum. He remarks that the woman would have been burned as a witch a hundred years prior for her visions, but not was being subjected to electroshock. This woman is, of course, Alice. Again this is just like how Leia's ship gets attacked over Tatooine in Episode IV. Of all the forests in all of the world, James had to walk into Forks. This also means, that the explanation of the psychic powers of the vampires is bullshit because Alice had her visions before being a vampire. The established story thus far is now unravelling.
This also means that Alice, not Bella, was the original target of James.
The beating begins. James attacks Bella, throwing her against the mirrors in the story and hurting her in several ways before she passes out. It makes no sense for him to do this other than to enrage the Cullens, but just biting her as was his intention should have done this as well. The needless sadism of the scene lends us to believe that James is more of the psychotic type of villain than his previous politeness would have indicated. Bella is unconscious, beaten, and bitten (we assume) by James. Left to die with a nice recording of it on the video camera. We assume he wants revenge but we don't know why. If he's doing all of this for the sport of the thing then why leave the tape? New mysteries abound but none of them are exactly interesting, they just simply are.
"Unless you didn't come alone, of course.' Light, amused." First off there is no way that he can know whether or not Bella is alone. The only reasonable motive for her to actually be alone is fear of James and his mother. Secondly what is with that second sentence? It's clearly not a sentence since it contains only two adjectives, I've been seeing this more and more in fiction which leads me to believe that this is either being taught somewhere or some extremely popular writer used it a decade ago. The placement of the comma is even more confounding because at this point why should the writer even pretend to be using the rules of grammar?
Bella is instructed to leave her mother's house and go to the dance studio around the corner. This seems unnecessary. If she's already alone why make her do something else to attract attention? Maybe I should cut James some slack as he could just be exercising caution, let's go with that as it actually makes some sense. If Bella showed up with the Cullens in tow he might not notice it right away, but making her go to another location in the sun would certainly indicate the presence of the other undead. She opens the Dance studio door which has a sign indicating that the place is closed for Spring Break. Yeah, sure whatever. A private studio wouldn't close for Spring Break, it has no reason to, in fact it might stay open as its customers wouldn't have school to interrupt their lessons there.
"Bella? Bella? That same tone of hysterical panic." Bella hears her mother's voice, but the "as" is misplaced if she's not going to tell us what it refers to. The tone she heard on the phone earlier? The general tone she uses because she has mental issues? We don't know, but then we find out.
Bella looks around for her mother and instead sees a television playing a tape from a vacation they took several years ago. It would seem that James has pulled a ruse. A well done ruse I might add. Apparently I need to backtrack a little bit in my entries because James really did a good thing here. Everything that I have said previously about James and the hostage situation and how dumb it was has to be retracted, he never had a hostage. So while Alice and Jasper were keeping vigil (although not as vigilant as they ought to have) over Bella's mother's house it was all for naught. They would never have seen anything because Alice's vision of him going through the tapes was completely accurate. They just thought it was more than it was, such must be the trouble with being able to see the future.
The only thing wrong that James did, although it worked out for him, was assume that his opponents were completely stupid. It wasn't wrong in this case, because they are, but he assumed that Bella would do exactly as he asked with no backup plan. He's either really new at this or really old at this. The former because it's quite a risk, the latter because he could just really understand his prey. "Sorry about that Bella, but isn't it better that your mother didn't really have to be involved in all this?"
Ah the polite villain. While I can't actually back this up with evidence I do wonder if this has its origin in "The Final Problem" where Holmes and Moriarty meet having a relatively polite conversation. Now it's such a trope that we are almost shocked when our villains act like villains. Another trope Meyer exploits here is the idea that the villain must explain his actions to the protagonist. Instead of just killing Bella he has to go into a monologue about how beneath him she is, how the Cullens were so easily duped, and how the two of them are now meeting in the studio.
The biggest problem with this is that by not knowing how everything worked out James seems that much more impressive. When he explains what happened it makes his plan seem less and less impressive because those he was outwitting acted really oblivious. Here's what we can piece together: James headed North behind Edward and Carlisle. Victoria stayed behind where Esme tracked her around Charlie's house. So far the Cullens have their ridiculous plan working. Then Victoria gives up on Charlie and somehow finds out more information on Bella which she then communicates to James. James just stops heading North and flies directly to Phoenix. We should note that Phoenix had always been the destination of Bella, Alice, and Jasper. When James disappeared, no one thought to either follow him or head to Phoenix, where I should note they were going to head eventually anyway. Not one of the super-awesome Cullens ever thought to watch Bella's mother's house or at least inquire as to her location. Edward couldn't read James's mind to determine anything. If, Bella is killed then the Cullens are as responsible as she is. This is the most incompetent group of guards to work outside of the James Bond universe.
It also gets a little eye-rollingly coincidental as James explains that the only time he had ever been outsmarted is when he went after a young woman under the care of an older vampire in an insane asylum. He remarks that the woman would have been burned as a witch a hundred years prior for her visions, but not was being subjected to electroshock. This woman is, of course, Alice. Again this is just like how Leia's ship gets attacked over Tatooine in Episode IV. Of all the forests in all of the world, James had to walk into Forks. This also means, that the explanation of the psychic powers of the vampires is bullshit because Alice had her visions before being a vampire. The established story thus far is now unravelling.
This also means that Alice, not Bella, was the original target of James.
The beating begins. James attacks Bella, throwing her against the mirrors in the story and hurting her in several ways before she passes out. It makes no sense for him to do this other than to enrage the Cullens, but just biting her as was his intention should have done this as well. The needless sadism of the scene lends us to believe that James is more of the psychotic type of villain than his previous politeness would have indicated. Bella is unconscious, beaten, and bitten (we assume) by James. Left to die with a nice recording of it on the video camera. We assume he wants revenge but we don't know why. If he's doing all of this for the sport of the thing then why leave the tape? New mysteries abound but none of them are exactly interesting, they just simply are.
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