Vampires, get off my lawn!

[lesbiassparrow]

Is there some sort of new internet law that every time someone mentions a vampire film/book/theme park/whatever horrific contribution to vampire fetishes someone is coming up with next, they have to say 'Forget Twilight'? And then they go on to describe things that if you read Twilight there is no chance that you'd be interested in?

And much as I think Twilight is filled with the WTFness of the first degree, most of the other stuff that is touted as amazing and entirely the way vampires should be depicted sounds almost equally dreadful. And, sadly, more boring (say what you like about Twilight it keeps me endlessly entertained). That may be because I am ready for vampires to be retired as a way to explore the human condition or whatever else people say they are exploring. Seriously, they're not that interesting: They eat people. They live forever or a really long time until some rightminded person comes along and stakes them. That's it, people. They're like human shaped, long-lived, man-eating lions. Who may or may not be able to go out in sunlight, depending on what crappy vampire novel they're in.

Also, introducing a more manly, killer vampire doesn't make your character necessarily better than Edward (though I will admit the odds are surely in your favour). It just makes him more manly and killer. That, in itself, is not inherently interesting and better.

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[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

It's funny because I just now watched the original pilot on YouTube, and they had a different actor playing Mitchell (and Annie, too). And he just didn't work for me at all. One of the things I love about Mitchell is how he is so believably ordinary but can switch so easily to look dangerous and predatory without really even moving. The original Mitchell never seemed able to pull off the ordinary part. And he really did look like he'd gotten thrown out of the Bauhaus for being TOO goth. I didn't like the original Annie, either. The whole tone of it was a lot more....goth. It was interesting to watch, though.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I saw the pilot first and I have to say that I didn't at first like the replacements for either Mitchell or Annie. Though with Mitchell they didn't seem to have rewritten the character for the new actor, I thought they had a bit with Annie. But by the end of the series I was very much on board with the actors. (Though I think they took a fair while to sort out what they wanted to do with Annie. Longer than with the guys.)

[kalliopeia.livejournal.com]

I do feel like Annie just sort of floats along for awhile. I persuaded my aunt to watch it, and she's undecided on the show because she isn't sure she likes Annie. I'm glad that they didn't make her quite as agoraphobic (agraphobic?) as in the pilot.

They didn't change Mitchell much but it felt to me like they did because honestly I'd never see the first Mitchell without feeling like he's a little creepy. They play the role so differently.

Just as an aside, have you noticed that Mitchell eats all the time? There's got to be a reason for it, no one on tv ever eats unless there's a specific reason for it, like they're being a slob or depressed and chowing down, or it's a specific dinner scene or something. Mitchell is ALWAYS munching on something. His first scene in the house, he's eating pizza, and then all through the series. Even down to the last episode, he's scarfing down cereal in the last scene.