Vampire Diaries

[sa_lune]

So I hear that the first episode of Twilight: The TV Show The Vampire Diaries was a horrible trainwreck. Because I love things of that nature, I feel compelled to seek it out and see just how bad it is.

I realize the show is based on a book series that predates Twilight by quite a bit, and I've never read these books. They might be great books. Yet, I can't help but feel like Vampire Diaries is the worst title for something involving vampires since Bunnicula. I'm fairly certain it's the word "diary" which I tend to associate with the vapid, melodramatic scribblings of your average teenage girl, possibly because the last time I owned a diary I was a teenage girl and I filled it with vapid, melodramatic scribblings. When placed with the word "vampire," which generally describes a blood-sucking fiend, it just renders the whole phrase innocuous.

I suppose that might be a touch of the vampire purist in me. I mean, I don't demand every writer conform to the Stoker school of vampire mythology, but I do demand that they be scary on some level. And I don't mean faux scary like Edward "I push my mortal girlfriend around to feel powerful" Cullen.

Is some good old fashioned blood shed too much to ask? Then again, maybe these books do have some good old fashioned blood shed?

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Comments

[wilhelminabenedict]

The books have some parts that are actually pretty damn creepy. The diary comes from the fact that Elena writes in one, and she's pretty melodramatic but she's pretty honest about it, and in real life she's a high school queen--in a much more realistic fashion than Twilight's Mary Sue--she's a little bit of a bitch and the author is very honest about that, which I love.

The TV show, however, looks like they bleached everything original and enjoyable from the books in order to leech off of the Twilight fanbase. Taking one look at those guys--who were supposed to be Italian nobility--and tell me they're not trying for an Edward ripoff.