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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.

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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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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!

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.

As concerns Twilight,

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

Those aren't vampires, they're faeries.

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.