All I could think was that every human Twilight's heroine Bella loved would die and leave her more alone; that her life would wind on well past the point of freshness and purpose.
This includes a location for every local twilight, as seen in the raw light data.
Bird transplanted the story from England to 1950s smalltown America: a metal-eating iron giant from outer-space crashlands in rural Maine, biting lumps out of automobiles and power stations; he looks like every red-scare Twilight Zone fantasy come true.
Imagine if, every day at twilight, it also involved the threat from a sniper who liked to pick off random victims as they gathered in front of their TV sets to watch the broadcast.
"I get further away [from Twilight] every day," said Meyer.
Thus their conversations began every evening beginning at twilight.
All those hours in the pool, the starts at sunrise each morning and the twilight finishes every night, they leave little time for schoolwork or socialising.
That's an awful lot of money by anyone's standards, and it explains why the studio is desperate to milk every last penny from Twilight while it still can.
Just to prove it isn't simply content to rip off Twilight at every turn, City of Bones has given its characters a dismissive Harry Poterm-style term for referring to humans.
Unlike The Twilight Zone, every screen in Black Mirror is saturated with awareness of the techno-singularities looming just over the horizons of the future.
