Vampire crap
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The Fray storyline is revisited in Buffy Season 8 TPB4: The Time of Your Life.
Amen. Both the Charlaine Harris novels and the HBO series are worlds away from the Stephenie Meyer crap. I haven't read or watched Vampire Diaries, so I can't comment on that one.
It's not for you, just like Star Trek isn't for other people. My friends made fun of me for liking Star Trek (prior to May) so I made fun of them for liking glittery vampires. 
If your idea of a "werewolf" is of a guy who turns into an actual wolf, you're an idiot.
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I agree. I watched Twilight recently. Oy. On barable because I was watching it with Rifftrax. It's so overly angsty, morose, teeny-popperness I think I got acne just from watching it.
It's utter crap.
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I agree. I watched Twilight recently. Oy. On barable because I was watching it with Rifftrax. It's so overly angsty, morose, teeny-popperness I think I got acne just from watching it.
It's utter crap.
Or maybe you're just not the target audience. If teenage girls want to read vampire romance novels, more power to them. Lord knows I read enough DARK SHADOWS novels when I was growing up . . . .
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I agree. I watched Twilight recently. Oy. On barable because I was watching it with Rifftrax. It's so overly angsty, morose, teeny-popperness I think I got acne just from watching it.
It's utter crap.
Or maybe you're just not the target audience. If teenage girls want to read vampire romance novels, more power to them. Lord knows I read enough DARK SHADOWS novels when I was growing up . . . .
Yeah, it's so great for teenage girls to read novels and adore movies about a identiy-less girl falling in love with a man who treats her like shit and, oh, he and his whole family wants to kill her.
Great books!
All I gotta say is, anyone who would compare True Blood with Twilight needs to actually watch all the things he's comparing before comparing them.
This is like someone saying, "Why all this space crap like Lost in Space, Babylon 5, Firefly and Enterprise?"
This is like someone saying, "Why all this space crap like Lost in Space, Babylon 5, Firefly and Enterprise?"
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True Blood is not crap buddy. Kind of hard to take you seriously after that.
True Blood is being lumped in because of the linked article; it's one of three vampire products that picked up awards at People's Choice.
Though the OP's labelling of it as part of the teeny-bopper craze is a tad incongruous, it's definitely part of some sort of vampire trend. Eh. Since the days of Buffy the Vampire Slayer I've been the outsider scratching my head at all this populist vampire nonsense, but it doesn't really bother me. 2009 was a very good year for sci-fi movies - yeah, even space opera - and considering how well financially some of them did (hel-lo, Avatar) maybe Hollywood's ears will perk up and we'll see some more of 'em.
Though the OP's labelling of it as part of the teeny-bopper craze is a tad incongruous, it's definitely part of some sort of vampire trend. Eh. Since the days of Buffy the Vampire Slayer I've been the outsider scratching my head at all this populist vampire nonsense, but it doesn't really bother me. 2009 was a very good year for sci-fi movies - yeah, even space opera - and considering how well financially some of them did (hel-lo, Avatar) maybe Hollywood's ears will perk up and we'll see some more of 'em.
That seems to be an altogether sensible interpretation of a word that speaking archaically means manwolf.
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I agree. I watched Twilight recently. Oy. On barable because I was watching it with Rifftrax. It's so overly angsty, morose, teeny-popperness I think I got acne just from watching it.
It's utter crap.
Or maybe you're just not the target audience. If teenage girls want to read vampire romance novels, more power to them. Lord knows I read enough DARK SHADOWS novels when I was growing up . . . .
Yeah, it's so great for teenage girls to read novels and adore movies about a identiy-less girl falling in love with a man who treats her like shit and, oh, he and his whole family wants to kill her.
Great books!
Well, I admit I prefer UNDERWORLD myself, but I always roll my eyes when scifi fans look down their noses at vampires or romance novels. We all have our guilty pleasures, and I've seen enough clueless people dismiss all science fiction as "crap" to take pot shots at somebody else's disreputable pulp genre. We're all the gutter together!
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Ah, but that depends. Sure I've got my guilty pleasures, but there's also the sort of science fiction I'll rather unashamedly defend as legitimately good. Metropolis is a goddamn masterpiece of silent filmmaking, and I'll be darned if I'm disputed on that point and asked to put it into the gutter of the penny dreadfuls and Varney the Vampire.
Ah, but that depends. Sure I've got my guilty pleasures, but there's also the sort of science fiction I'll rather unashamedly defend as legitimately good. Metropolis is a goddamn masterpiece of silent filmmaking, and I'll be darned if I'm disputed on that point and asked to put it into the gutter of the penny dreadfuls and Varney the Vampire.
Yep, and it's called meconium...
True. But there's a spectrum in most every genre. With scifi, you have METROPOLIS at the high end and trashy drive-in movies at the low end. Ditto for vampire fiction, romances, spy fiction, westerns, and comic books.
NOSFERATU is also a masterpiece of silent filmmaking, and easiy on a par with METROPOLIS. Varney the Vampire is more equivalent to some old Planet Stories potboiler.
As The Comedian sagely observed, dismissing all vampire stuff as "crap" is like lumping STAR TREK and LOST IN SPACE together . . . .
My thoughts exactly.
True that.
I thought the criticism was towards rather vaguely defined 'teeny-bopper' vampire fare, though. Even if True Blood is dubious under this definitin, I wouldn't be surprised if pressed the OP could come up with vampire stories and/or movies he likes. We all could, I'm sure.
You'd better believe if the Twilight series was about a really sexy extraterrestials who mooned over a midwestern girl before boarding their sparkly spaceship of love it'd probably be just as ludricously aggressively loathed on the 'nets, I'm sure. I mean, say, if Earth Girls Are Easy was super mega-popular today for some reason.
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