Several Reasons The Twilight Saga Pisses Me Off pt. 2
Several Reasons The Twilight Saga Pisses Me Off By Isa H. Alice's "Gift" Alice's ability is both the most potentially powerful and yet the most ill-conceived and WASTED power in this whole series. Yes, I am including Avatar dude. It still boggles my mind that he was in this series... more on that later. So, how is it ill-conceived? Well, because a reliable precog in any story means that there's no chance for things to go wrong. There are two ways you can write a precog: fuzzy on the details, or wildly unreliable. This allows for some tension about the plot and how it's going to unfold, and some doubt about how things will turn out for the characters. BUT Alice's powers are treated as frea king INFALLIBLE. Even though it's repeatedly shown that they aren't, and Smeyer even reluctantly admits that they aren't, EVERYONE acts like they are. In the same scene that she admits that her powers completely failed, and Edward almost died beca...