Vampire Diaries
Sep. 13th, 2009 04:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sa_luneSo 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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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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