I really do think you are missing a few major things that are so positive about the Twilight Saga, especially the books. Fist of all, I believe the real draw of the Saga is love, Edward's unconditional love for Bella, which she did nothing to earn other than to exist, is something we all crave, especially those who do not come from intact families or who have not grown up in the love of God. For is that kind of love not exactly that --the love of God, the love only God provides? What a powerful message to tell the kids! You want that kind of love? You can't get it from a human, it only can come from God himself.
Another aspect you did not touch on and one that drew me to the Saga was to make chastity COOL! Premarital sex is not just rampant, it is unquestioned in our culture and Twilight, through Edward Cullen, QUESTIONS IT! This very wonderful, attractive man/boy wants to preserve his virginity until he is married! Talk about a conversation started for teens! He sets the bar high for how boys should respect a girl. There is no more powerful for FOR abstention than a really cute movie star saying to his movie star girlfriend, we can't have sex until we are married.
You are missing the great good that theses books can be used to promote, Fathers!

I don't see it as a story of unconditional love at all. There is something Edward is drawn to, something Edward finds almost irresistible about Bella. Love may be the only thing keeping him from devouring her, but love may be the only thing keeping him from devouring her! Even after getting her arm broken while with the guy, even after he confides to her that he finds her so hard to resist, even after waking to find him watching her in her own bedroom, she still doesn't have the sense to stay away. I find Bella a very weak, poor example for my girls. It's not okay for a teenage girl to lie and deceive her parents and put herself in harms way "for love," even if the guy is something "special." This is the real world, where girls who think they are in love often don't have the best judgment and need a parent's guidance and support. This is the real world where a young girl who romanticizes and who takes these kinds of risks in the name of love can end up in some difficult situations, used, abused, raped, pregnant, or even murdered. I understand this story is fantasy, but the message doesn't translate well in reality.

I have read lots of young adult fiction and fiction by women and the Twitlight Saga is the unhealthiest, most perverted image of love between a man and woman that I have ever read. Bella is more obsessed with Edward than in love with him. Edward is controlling and manipulative. He encourages Bella to lie to her parents, who are painted as foolish and pathetic, and to isolate herself from her friends. That is not loving; that is emotionally abusive. Even without the unnatural hideousness of the vampires, this is a poor choice of literature for a young woman.

What is interesting is the figure Vlad the impaler was an orthodox ruler in the 15th century who was very harsh and impaled his enemies, the turks in large numbers. Legends about him after his death developed and is one of the sources of the vampire stories. Folk culture in some orthdox countries has stories similar to modern vampire stories and of course became popular as noted in the west in the 19th century and currently is still popular today. True, tranforiming culture is not always easy and young people like dark tales sometimes to relate to their diffuculties and since Orthodox are a small number in the US the, other christian churches have difficulty trying to get young people to the light on moral issues.

Twilight in my view is no different than any other film in popular culture. Teenagers and young adults need guidance to understand what it is they are watching. Sure there are positive ideas, like chastity, but there are many negative ideas, often hidden or disguised, that these young viewers miss or they are totally misunderstood or worse yet taken as correct.

As the Father said, guidance and education is the way.