Mervin Reads! The Twilight Illustrated Guide (The Irish Coven) 

Also, isn't it funny how quickly "traditional" vampires become good vampires as soon as Bella was changed? We were told how horrible James and Victoria were just for wanting to eat Bella, but now that Bella is a vampire she doesn't give a fuck. It's totally natural for them to kill thousands of innocent people and nothing to worry about because at least they aren't hunting people she knows. Meyer wasn't kidding when she said she is anti-human.

And yes, middle-class women in the medieval cultures were working women. They had to, in order to live. They were known for working in farms, running inns and bakeries ( as shown a lot of times in A Song of Ice and Fire ), running cotton-mills, etc. It was the nobility and the upper classes that the usual misogyny was reserved for. Perhaps I'd feel more sympathy for Siobhan if she had to manipulate Sancar into turning her just to be able to get out of his clutches. Dark, tragic and twisted.

First of all, what's the point of making potential members of your harem into fierce newborn vampies ? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose ? I would think keeping human sex-slaves would be the better thing to do. Secondly, Siobhan was raped before being turned into a vampire. Couldn't she have become pregnant like Bella ? Oh, wait, she totally could have. Thirdly, 'you'll never go hungry again', right. What does a newborn feel the first instant she is transformed ? Oh, right, thirst.

Sibbohan reminds me of Scar. "Stick with me and you'll never go hungry again!"

But I agree with you that a woman taking on her deceased husband's job wouldn't be unheard off. You had to stay practical and earn a living for your family, after all.

dude, i have English and Welsh ancestry, we be pale up in here! (seriously, i can't even tan, i turn PINK) the only sort of color on my skin (god i hope that didn't sound racist, and i am very sorry if it did) is FRECKLES on my cheeks and nose! That's it! I have yet to see a Brit, Scott, Welsh, or Irishman that is NOT fair skinned. Meyer, being pail and coming from the British Isles ISN'T STRANGE! IT'S PRETTY DAMN COMMON! I wasn't even born there and i know this DX (and this actually comes from being able to trace my family line back to about the 1600's, it may not be noble, but it's mine.)

13:50 Well Hell. Up until this point Siobhan was the only one of the characters in this part of the book that I actually liked. But then SMeyer just had to turn her into a monster like everyone else. Wonderful. 19:20 OMG that's EXACTLY what I was thinking whenever I saw his pictures! Just put a Shamrock in his hat, why don'tcha? My Irish heritage ALSO spits in their direction. 20:30 I WAS going to call him Bran the Blessed, but then I remembered Bran's Welsh.

3:00 I don't think it was Nitpicky at all. I was EXPECTING her to have some kind of jab at Irish Catholics, actually. 4:25 Yeah, I'm like 94% sure that's true. Women weren't as oppressed in the Middle Ages as most people think. For example, noblewomen were expected to defend the estate whenever the lord was away at war. 7:00 I KNEW IT. I KNEW that was SMeyer's attempt at feminism! 7:90 Oh great! More race stereotypes! A Mid Eastern male Meyerpire going around making a harem.

And it definitely was around in the air in the Middle-Ages, along with some wondering if women had souls at all (that I remember for sure from my social psychology lessons, I just don't remember which philospher or Church man raised that question). "The Great Council of Churches, in the early 1950's decided that women do in fact have souls." - on Yahoo answers, if you can trust that ... So the question was only settled in the fifties!

What happened to Maggie was one of the worst catch 22's ever hell that shots the stuff horror movies are made out of "Hey kid are you starving to death" "I can make sure you're never hunger again" kid accepts. "Now you'll have to eat other people for the rest of their lives!!!!!!!" Seriously how is that not pure evil???

As always your commentary is witty sharp and smart however your comparison of GRR Martin (Tiger) and Meyer (worm) is cruel ... Worms perform an important role in nature - and Meyer does not.

It's also not unique to Judeo-Christian thought. In Greek and Roman religion, women were blamed for all the misfortunes of the world. Pandora was SUPPOSED to open the jar/box, and the gods specifically designed her to be incapable of not doing so. And I have to wonder how much of it comes from Greco-Roman culture. Originally, Christianity was highly popular among women and it's a documented fact that women were acting as ministers. One roman governor had some deaconesses tortured at one point.

Honestly, Siobhan's story as a human sounds cool. Female blacksmith? Tall? So cool! I even like who they picked to act her. Though I think she looks to be in her thirties, not twenties. ...I'm just gonna imagine Siobhan to have been turned in her 30s.

actually, i think i might know why the voultori left Sankar alone. He was a Turk. *cough Ottoman Muslim cough* The Ottomans were Muslim. They did NOT like Muslims, hence the "let's try and get to India by going west" idea, back them. I dunno, probably not it, but it's more logical than Meyer's BS.

...I wish Meyer decided to just...not talk. It's like...potential. Pissed down her leg. And I just...why. I could have liked Siobhan. Why. Why did she have to give backstory. Why did she have to EVER TELL STORIES.

From the beginning of chevan's (shivan? shevan? f* the spelling) it was made out like she'd be this burly butch woman, and then Meyer goes "she has an hourglass figure?" Yeah, not seeing it. The mighty blacksmith woman has to be "big boned" at the very least.

I had no clue how to pronounce "Siobhan" and was pronouncing it as "Soh-bi-Han".

Nice video as usual. Is there a possibility you will ever read the parts on the werewolves... ups. "shapeshifters" of course? :)

HEY! I'm Irish and I have brown hair (No Offense)