Editor wrote:long story short, guy is sucked into another world where he's the dead ringer of a deceased warrior, leading him to a conversation with a guy that more or less went like:
You, you look like my brother. I loved my brother, but I couldn't 'love' my brother. And you look just like the brother I loved....
you get the picture...
That is most of what goes on between Wakka, Tidus, and Lulu in Final Fantasy X.
Editor wrote:Around the release of the movie I was quite critical of the series as it seemed to be that the author had more or less created a new breed of creature and just dubbed them as Vampires to take advantage of the existing romantic mystique regardless of the whole, "sunlight doesn't kill them, it makes them glitter" deal.
However in watching a special about the undead in movies, it dawned on me that waht she has done somewhat with Vampires, is really no different than what happened with Zombies after 'Night of the Living Dead' where Romero changed our perception of zombies into undead flesh eaters away from voodoo control.
Then there is the whole deal that traditional Vampires themselves are more a constuct based out of Bram Stokers Dracula than the folklore of eastern europe,
But I digress,
To be fair in both Dracula and Carmilla, the titular villains were able to survive in sunlight, however, it weakened them both, and they usually spent that time asleep.
As for Romero's Zombies, the only thing he really changed was how one becomes a Zombie. it used to be magic control, but then after Romero, the popular thing became a viral outbreak. It was still a reanimated corpse with no intelligence or self-awareness and only basic instincts. Unfortunately, Sparkly McPaleface went the other way around; how they're turned is kept the same, but the end result is very different.
sorry for being an idiot. 
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