VAMPIRES! BLEHHH!!!!

[nightwind1]

And, you know, Surak bears a suspicious resemblance to a vampire that was spotted in Las Vegas once . . . .

Sarek '09 bears a striking resemblence to a vampire from the East Coast in the early '90s.

 

[Greg Cox]

Come to think of it, I hear that Dracula eventually ended up as a corrupt politician on Bajor . . . .

I thought he was a Sith, a wizard or a hitman.

Wrong Dracula!

But, yes, Nightwind, Sarek does look a little vampiric these days.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Twilight's just the current fannish whipping-post, owing mainly to the fact that the core fandom for it is female and that the films are able to be hugely successful without enthusiastic support from the fanboise. This is always threatening.

It's not too different from the kind of contempt for romantic comedies and "chick flicks" expressed by male film-goers who if honest have to admit to living on a cinematic diet of exploding cop cars, monosyllabic growling protagonists dressed in black and giant robots.

 

[Greg Cox]

Twilight's just the current fannish whipping-post, owing mainly to the fact that the core fandom for it is female and that the films are able to be hugely successful without enthusiastic support from the fanboise. This is always threatening.

Absolutely. I'm not a big fan of Twilight myself--watched some of the movies, couldn't finish the book--but I accept that I'm not the target audience and that's fine. Teenage girls are entitled to their own genre entertainment. Nobody says all vampire flicks have to be aimed at the fanboy crowd.

And, yeah, a lot of the Twilight-bashing does seem to have a heavy element of "ooh, cooties!" to it . . . .

 

[nightwind1]

Twilight's just the current fannish whipping-post, owing mainly to the fact that the core fandom for it is female and that the films are able to be hugely successful without enthusiastic support from the fanboise. This is always threatening.

Absolutely. I'm not a big fan of Twilight myself--watched some of the movies, couldn't finish the book--but I accept that I'm not the target audience and that's fine. Teenage girls are entitled to their own genre entertainment. Nobody says all vampire flicks have to be aimed at the fanboy crowd.

And, yeah, a lot of the Twilight-bashing does seem to have a heavy element of "ooh, cooties!" to it . . . .

They ARE entitled to their own genre entertainment, but it doesn't have to be crappy, poorly written genre entertainment.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Come to think of it, I hear that Dracula eventually ended up as a corrupt politician on Bajor . . . .

I thought he was a Sith, a wizard or a hitman.

Wrong Dracula!

So, you mean the one who became the editor of a major metropolitan newspaper?

 

[Greg Cox]

I thought he was a Sith, a wizard or a hitman.

Wrong Dracula!

So, you mean the one who became the editor of a major metropolitan newspaper?

Yep. And who was not a crook.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Wrong Dracula!

So, you mean the one who became the editor of a major metropolitan newspaper?

Yep. And who was not a crook.

What about Checkers?

 

[Elder Knight]

It's interesting that Christopher Lee never got to be a Star Trek villian, as he's done just about everything else in his career.