Hunter, once you learn to accept that Bella is a selfish, oblivious girl with major depression, daddy issues, and delusional all while existing in Flatland (one dimension), the character problems become a lot easier to swallow. I've always treated the Twilight books like potato chips: fun to read, but not very intellectually filling. Just wait until you read the book where it goes from soap opera drama to X-Men 4: Vampire Edition.
And if you haven't read Hunger Games yet, you will be highly entertained but equally frustrated at similar characterization problems.
Why are you defending Twilight?? Even if it is to make fun of it, why are you defending it??
Get rid of it. Exterminate. Burn it. Bleach it. Let it die. Forget it ever happened. Stomp it out of humanity's history.
And dear god, why why it is still on this site. This make me wanna cry. If only I could.
No biggie then, carry on. ;)
After you read the book, you should watch the movie. Then you get to see Kristen Stewart in her "I'm constipated, but I'm going to pretend the means I'm sad" expressions." Poor lass, really seems to be unable to convey emotions very well on her face. Or put inflection in her voice. Or generally sound anything other than a nervous kid in high school doing a play.
(As a side note...I have read all the books, watched the movies...and yet I sit here bashing them. Oh, they're my guilty pleasure...like a bad soap opera.)