In retrospect, this seems inevitable—highly unwelcome, but no less inevitable for all that. The immense box office success of the “Twilight” franchise has led the creative geniuses who control your television to create a Twilight-based reality show, set in—where else?—Forks, Washington. Of course, the premise here is a bit hazy, since reality television is supposed to have some nodding acquaintance with reality, and here in the real world there are no vampires. And the producers say they’re not going to take that road:
We’re not going up there looking to cast people who have claims to the supernatural…. We want people who have a true connection to the community. We want to avoid people with outlandish claims.”
So, what exactly is the point of this show? The same source says they want “to peel back another layer of the onion that is Forks and see what the real people there are like.” In other words, a nationwide audience will have a chance to spend an hour a week in the same town Bella Swann found sickening in its mediocrity before she learned it was crawling with undead bloodsuckers and werewolves with metrosexual grooming habits. And so we have yet another reason to look forward to 2010.
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Forks was a sleepy logging town until a couple years ago, and one which the author HAD NEVER VISITED before writing the book. She chose it as a setting based on the fact that it had more overcast days than anywhere else in the US.
I’ve been there, and it’s boring. There still isn’t a decent restaurant in the whole freaking town. There ARE however a lot of signs about vampires, most of them stupid, some amusing — “NO VAMPIRES ALLOWED”, etc.