Is Buffy passe' now in light of more current vampire movies & series?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 19:32
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I SAY HELL NO!!!
Eff Twilight & Thirst or whatever the Hell that crap TV show is- Buffy is Queen of all vampire stories!!!
The undead Chrisisall
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Not really. BtVS series will always be considered one of the great, TV, vampire shows.
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Originally posted by RiveR6213:
Not really. BtVS series will always be considered one of the great, TV, vampire shows.
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There's always going to be new Vampire stories. There has been a vampire centric TV show of soe sort on almost every season for the last few decades. Some will make an impact, others not.
And whatever the new one is will be the best one to it's fans. And as those fans get older, they will look at whatever the next new thing is, and say "It's not as good as mine."
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Hell no.
If anything, the Buffyverse has made it impossible for me to watch any other vampire stories without getting bored out of my skull. (Not that I had a high tolerance for vampires anyway. I'm more of a werewolf fan.)
Blade, True Blood, Moonlight, Twilight --hell, I only watch Underworld for the Lycans. It's like Hollywood's not even trying. I keep wanting to see Angel (or Spike) stroll up and mop the floor with these melodramatic wannabe bishounen/gothlolis.
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Not at all me ol' mucka!
You see the thing with Buffy is that it's essentially about a girl growing up into a woman and battling her demons.
...Well that's going to be infinitely relatable. And seeing as how those sorts of shows, with strong females at thier core are so rarely tackled, and rarer still -tackled with such accomplishment- means it'll be a good long while before Buffy is removed from her very high perch.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I SAY HELL NO!!!
Eff Twilight & Thirst or whatever the Hell that crap TV show is- Buffy is Queen of all vampire stories!!!
The undead Chrisisall
Of Course not...but Buffy was about a Vampire SLAYER not a vampire.
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It's gotta be said, I'm really enjoying True Blood, although I'd say it's completely different to Buffy, vampires or not.
Also, if anyone has the chance, check out the film Let The Right One In. It's...Swedish? I believe? and based on a book, both are brilliant. It's completely different to Buffy, I just mention it because of the whole 'vampire' thing.
But yeah, I've got to agree with the Twilight thing, couldn't see any appeal in that. Especially in the film. Apparently the vampires can go outside when it's overcast? And even if they do go out in the sunlight, they don't get hurt, they just look sort of crystal-like, and so people will realise there's something weird about them, so they don't go into the sunlight. How is THAT a vampire. They also don't have fangs. Or Willow and Xander.
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Now, I admit I dislike vampire stories in general, because they're overdone nowadays and I don't get the bizarre romanticization of the bloodsuckers...
But I think True Blood is just BAD. I expected the whole metaphor about minorities and civil rights in our culture to be an interesting twist... But I just find the writting to be shock value (violence and sexually explicit), poor attempts at humour, and not so great characterization. First few minutes of the first episode, who are we introduced to? The stock perky innocent southern belle and the stock tall dark and mysterious (and a vampire!). Yeah. Gotta give it points for originality... <_<
At least it sounds like Buffy had other flavours beyond the vampires, and there was probably a significant amount of parody involved in the vampire depiction itself. Not to mention the trademark Joss storytelling, humour, and characterization.
So yeah, I'm going to have to agree with Chris... And I'm going to have to watch some episodes, too.
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