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by **The Happy Locust** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 7:40 pm

Never really watched buffy, but I preferred my vampires as soulless and villainess. And my idea of a romanticized is the Interview with a vampire variety. Soulless, but still with personality and wit and no denial about what they are. Now that's a vampire.

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 5:27 am

Burn wrote:
Dr. Heavy B wrote:Cw's got a new vampire show called moonlight. i don't know what its about but based on the tagline: "Sometimes, love sucks" I got to imagine it as failure.

It lasted one season and was cancelled about two years ago. Not really new.

really? well i havent seen it so its new to me

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:30 pm

Buffy's quality slipped after season three, but season four wasn't too bad. After that... *Shudder*

by **Dorca** » Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:43 am

Twilight is overrated. In every way. It's overrated by people who love it and people who hate it. No, they're not the best novels ever. They're poorly written, the plot sucks, and the vampires are "vegetarian."
But they're not the worst things ever written, either. Book one on its own isn't too bad, if you can get past certain things. Book three is kinda entertaining, as well. Books two and four... well, there are some issues I have with those books that I just can't get past. :BOOM:

Yes, I did read them all. People told me I couldn't make fun of them until I read them, so I read them.

But I suppose I'm a little biased. I've never really been a vampire person. But I did really like Buffy, where the vampires were evil and gross and actually wanted you dead.

Like Me, Grimlock! on Facebook · by **Me, Grimlock!** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:24 am

I prefer the vampires in stuff like From Dusk Till Dawn and Blade over stuff like Twilight, Buffy, and whatever other flavour-of-the-week vampire show is out. The whole vampire thing has gotten ridiculous over the last 5 or 10 years or so. As far as horror TV shows, I'm waiting out for the Walking Dead. Zombies > vampires.

by **Zombie Starscream** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:28 am

I liked Buffy in the beginning. But as they got on with the series and started to add odd stuff, I lost interest in it.
I'm not into vampires with souls, lesbian witches, or monsters-as-boyfriends.

I don't mind moral dillemas, as they do make the series interesting, but when your heroine starts sleeping with the things she should be killing, then that says to me that the series is starting to veer off course.

And Twilight is just bad all around.

To me, vampires are monsters. They drink blood, are pale because they are physically dead, and they have fangs and claws. They are 'immortal,' they come out only at night (sunlight destroys them), and they don't have souls.
What they are is essentially nightmares-in-the-flesh, and extremely dangerous when encountered.

They are not boyfriend material, and they do not 'sparkle.' :-x

by **Cobalt Prime** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:35 pm

Zombie Starscream wrote:To me, vampires are monsters. They drink blood, are pale because they are physically dead, and they have fangs and claws. They are 'immortal,' they come out only at night (sunlight destroys them), and they don't have souls.
What they are is essentially nightmares-in-the-flesh, and extremely dangerous when encountered.

They are not boyfriend material, and they do not 'sparkle.'

I agree 100%.
I've always had a problem with the rash of romanticized vampires that have dribbled out over the years. My vampire education came from the original 70's production of Salems Lot with David Soul, which terrified the crap out of my adolescent self back then. The movie depicted them as filthy, animalistic things, scratching at your window at night and spreading their disease throughout the town. I used to have nightmares about Barlowe the lead vampire. Now THOSE were vampires!

I only caught one showing of Buffy, which I thought was fairly creepy, but only because it deviated slightly from the Vampire theme. It was the Hush episode with those ghoulish heart-stealing gentlemen guys.

And Kudos to the member who mentioned it-Helsing most definitely rocks!

by **Zombie Starscream** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:18 pm

Cobalt Prime wrote:
Zombie Starscream wrote:To me, vampires are monsters. They drink blood, are pale because they are physically dead, and they have fangs and claws. They are 'immortal,' they come out only at night (sunlight destroys them), and they don't have souls.
What they are is essentially nightmares-in-the-flesh, and extremely dangerous when encountered.

They are not boyfriend material, and they do not 'sparkle.'

I agree 100%.
I've always had a problem with the rash of romanticized vampires that have dribbled out over the years. My vampire education came from the original 70's production of Salems Lot with David Soul, which terrified the crap out of my adolescent self back then. The movie depicted them as filthy, animalistic things, scratching at your window at night and spreading their disease throughout the town. I used to have nightmares about Barlowe the lead vampire. Now THOSE were vampires!

I only caught one showing of Buffy, which I thought was fairly creepy, but only because it deviated slightly from the Vampire theme. It was the Hush episode with those ghoulish heart-stealing gentlemen guys.

And Kudos to the member who mentioned it-Helsing most definitely rocks!

Oooh definately. I can't stand the romanticized vampire stuff either. It makes the vampire into something cheesy, stripping it of it's horror. Plus the vampire's lover (almost always it's the girl who crushes) ends up wanting to become a vampire themselves. I think that's lame.
And that's another thing that the Twilight novels do, is think that being a vampire is 'fun.'
I don't think that being a vampire would be fun, isn't it supposed to be horrible? Maybe at first it could be (especially if the 'becoming' was voluntary) but I imagine that after awhile the 'novalty' wears off, and that they HAVE to drink blood, and that after watching all their loved ones die from old age, it stops being quite so 'fun.' Then they just 'exist' until they are destroyed.

News Credits: 97 · by **Savage** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:07 am

As concerns Twilight,

Glitter in the sunlight...live in the forest...fly...

Those aren't vampires, they're faeries.

by **Evil_the_Nub** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:44 am

I've never watched Buffy or Twilight, one's too campy and the other is too girly. I like vampires in the Dracula style, ancient and powerful. Commanding legions of the undead and the creatures of the night.

News Credits: 3 · by **Stormwolf** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:29 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glNuQiE77E

This song explains it all

At any rate, prefer my vampires as predators craving for blood.

The average vampire mook should be brutal killer who will show no sorrow or remorse.
Elder vampires should show more sophistication and cunning.

News Credits: 2 · by **Nico** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:59 am

Savage wrote:As concerns Twilight,

Glitter in the sunlight...live in the forest...fly...

Those aren't vampires, they're faeries.

Yeah, I heard its easy to make the confusion.

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:55 pm

Savage wrote:As concerns Twilight,

Glitter in the sunlight...live in the forest...fly...

Those aren't vampires, they're faeries.

aaaaand we have a winner

Stormwolf wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glNuQiE77E

This song explains it all

when you're 600 years old there's no such thing as a cougar

lol

seriously, i promise all of you that I will never be an emo vampire.

News Credits: 3 · by **Stormwolf** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:03 pm

Heh, I guess we can all agree that the vampires got gayed up and the werewolves got castrated.

Twilight f*cked up our most beloved horror icons.

Just look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77sJT8O56E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLulEgXLOU

Things used to be about alcohol, drugs and sex when I was a teen, but nowadays it's about vampires and werewolves, WTF!!??

Really, getting high or having sex would be therapeutic for these guys.

Guess I'm getting old because I don't get the kids nowadays.

News Credits: 7 · by **Chaoslock** » Sun Jun 13, 2010 9:24 am

Those "werewolves" are just cosplaying emos.

It wasn't Twilight that started to f*ck up vampire myths, personally I blame Interview with the Vampire. While it had redeeming aspects, it romanticized the vampires' life too much.

The last good vampire movies I saw were Underworld 1-2 (didn't have time to see Rise of the Lycans yet)

News Credits: 2 · by **Nico** » Mon Jun 14, 2010 3:51 pm

One of Buffy's few redeeming character was Spike. Then he turned into a pussy. Ladies and gentleman, the poster boy for "badass decay".

by **Dagon** » Wed Jun 16, 2010 10:03 am

Yeah, neo-vampires blow beyond all reasoning. My girlfriend 'hates' Twilight but has read them all and insists on seeing the movies, which means that I get to see the movies too. In her defense I guess, she's consistant in hating on the books but enjoying the movies, so I guess I sort of have to give it to her, but damnation are vampires so crappy these days. In New Moon (I know, I'm sorry) there were the, like elder vampire council whose name I can't recall, but it was cool sounding (Volteri? Maybe?) and my girlfriend assured me they'd be cool, and they weren't. They looked like one of the old vaudville bits where someone yelled "MAkeup!" and was subsequently hit in the face with the powder puff.

by **Nickolai** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 3:58 am

Actually, Buffy season 8 (the "official" continuation of the storyline in comics) is currently pretty bad. One of the last few issues was 24 pages of Buffy and Angel - "them %#&*ing" as the writer so elegantly titled it - indeed having sex randomly interspersed with expositional dialogue from the supporting cast.

by **Zombie Starscream** » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:15 am

Nickolai wrote:Actually, Buffy season 8 (the "official" continuation of the storyline in comics) is currently pretty bad. One of the last few issues was 24 pages of Buffy and Angel - "them %#&*ing" as the writer so elegantly titled it - indeed having sex randomly interspersed with expositional dialogue from the supporting cast.

That is weird- wouldn't haveing sex make him lose his soul again? :???:

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News Credits: 1 · by **cybercat** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:47 pm

re: vid: PFFFF that was hilarious!!

Let's not be too narrowminded. I mean, yeah, Stephanie Meyer, but...there are others who are doing...THINGS to vampires. Like Charlaine Harris's books which are the True Blood series on TV.

Well, they're KINDA related.

HK, 'Sucky' Stackouse?

News Credits: 3 · by **Name_Violation** » Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:13 pm

for what its worth, i like Supernatural's take on vampires.

they can day walk(sunlight is like a really bad sunburn), they mate for life, they can only be killed by beheading, or poisoned with dead mans blood (as in blood from a dead person)

by **Iron Prime** » Wed Jul 07, 2010 8:40 am

Vampires have really take a different turn in the last 15-20 years (maybe more?). For the readers out there I highly suggest Brahm Stoker's Dracula (i.e. the 'original' book). It portrays vampires much more like they used to be "back in the day".

News Credits: 26 · by **Wheeljack35** » Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:09 pm

I have told my neices the only good Vampire movie to see from my pov is Interveiw with a Vampire

To hell with this twilight crap

Plus others I like are The Lost Boys and a TV show from the 90's about a Vampire cop called Forever Knight