Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) doesn't do herself any favours. Her demeanour is glummer than Eeyore on valium and her expression that of a delayed commuter. As a consequence it seems slightly churlish to chastise her for another personality flaw, but let's do it anyway. Bella Swan is an ingrate. Throughout the Twilight Saga she is responsible for some blinding moments of ingratitude that are mainly directed towards the three men in her life. She treats her long suffering father, Charlie (Billy Burke), like a parental stalker, constantly avoiding him and deliberately insulting him in a bid to distance herself. Occasionally her behaviour stems from a need to protect her father, in case evil vampires turn up at his house to cover him in glitter, or something. For the main part, however, it's just a major case of, 'I'm 17 and angry at my parent'. Imagine how many vampires she could have slept with if Charlie wasn't around to spoil the party by being a very normal Dad. T-shirt allergic Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) doesn't fare much better. He saves Bella's life on a number of occasions, including keeping her from catching hypothermia while in a frozen tent. His reward for his acts of kindness and unnerving devotion is a top-to-toe rough-housing administered by Bella after he urinates sorry, imprints on her baby, but she can perhaps be forgiven for this one. Twinkly piano-tinkler Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) bears the brunt of most of the ingratitude, mainly the newly titled Mrs Cullen's ungrateful response to becoming a vampire. Across the first four films Bella begs and pleads with 'The Hair' to turn her into a vampire. He won't, warning her it's not as great as everyone thinks it is, like Australia. He finally 'turns her' in order to save her life in the fifth and final film, but does she thank him? Does she bounce around the room showing off her new found powers and shouting, "Yippee I am a vampire, lads, watch me do some really fast running!" Does she Fork(s)! She sulks and whines about how hard it is being a vampire, like one of the rich teenagers from The Hills. Talk about a pain in the neck boom, boom.
