Hi, this is Dana Steven Slate's movie critic, and I'm here with the Slate Spoiler Special podcast on Twilight Eclipse, the third movie in the Twilight series, based on the novels by Stephanie Meyer.

So before we start, be warned if you didn't get it from the title of the feature, that the spoiler special is where we spoil movies.

So we're going to have an untrammeled conversation about not just this episode, Twilight Eclipse, but about the whole Twilight series. I don't know what we may spoil or not spoil. So if you're still waiting to

read the books, see the movies, and you don't want to know what happens, you might

want to wait until you have to listen to this. Here with me in the studio is Lizzie Skernick.

Hi, Lizzie. Hi. Who is densely qualified to, not dense, not a dense person, is densely qualified to critique

Twilight with me for the following reasons. Lizzie, say, talk about what you write and what

you're working on. Oh, well, I'm the author of Self-Discovery, which is a memoir of classic

YA novels and also Twilight, because of that, is just at this point my official beat.

I think I'm really not allowed to discourse on, I'm not allowed to not discourse on any Twilight movie.

Are you going to write on this movie?

I'm going to write on this movie.

I don't know where it's going to be, but I have an essay percolating that'll probably go up on my blog,

old hag, today.

All right.

If I don't talk it away.

I really, really, no, on the contrary, you'll workshop the ideas here and then you'll

write them on your blog.

All right.

I really can't wait to talk for this movie with you.

We saw it yesterday, and we've been chomping at the bit to get to the mics and discuss

it. So first of all, let me just

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