What is the Ever Lovin' Point?

First of all let me introduce myself. I am a thrice-married mother of an elementary school age daughter. My husband is very much a family man and I am a stay-at-home wife and mom. I graduated from college in '92 from a private and admittedly prestigious Pacific Northwestern liberal arts college with a Bachelor of Science degree in English. Yes, a BS not a BA. The easiest explanation is that I didn't want to take a foreign language because I took Spanish for three years in High School and couldn't speak a word--Science and math seemed a safer bet. I do enjoy writing and as most English majors do, hoped to be a writer, but at the same time never pursued it. I wrote a novel length manuscript in college and promptly ignored it and no longer have a copy of it. Remembering back, it too had a vampire twist in it with made up vampire rules--wow I just remembered that as I'm typing. Huh. I didn't read the Twilight books until 2010. I was hooked and it was almost manic--I actually lost 20 lbs. in three weeks because all I did was read them over and over one after the other. I had sores on my wrists where the book would lay open as I read. This was back before "Eclipse" was out in theatres--I checked out the first movie from the library and would watch it on infinite loop. Yeah I was one of those psycho moms that became an addict. I still am. I was even more hooked on "Midnight Sun" because I love Edward and don't really care about anyone else. I didn't read "50 Shades" until last November. Same thing happened. Hooked. Part of this is personality-related. I have a tendency to hyper-focus on things. Now we come to the point of the blog. I read an article--well tried to read this article--about the original fan fiction that eventually became "50" and how it really didn't change much to become "50" other than changing all the character names--from the Twilight names to the 50 names. The problem I have with this is...I don't see 50 as a copy of Twilight. I see it as "inspired by." In the same way Meyer used Jane Austen and other British classics as inspiration, I feel James used Twilight. And by using that prism of belief, let's discuss some more specific aspects.