UGH. Am I The Only One SICK Of These Teenage Vampire Stories?!

**jharker** · 10-31-2008, 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by ScottEwen

Incidentally, Snopes just ran an article about Dracula, and it turns out in the original Bram Stoker novel, Dracula had no problem running around in the daylight.

I read the book (mot surprisingly I guess, since I still have a nickname based on it) but I can't recall that detail anymore.
But there were a lot of strange details in that book that didn't stick. Like how he can't walk through running water, which I always found strange. So always make sure you go to the nearest river when you come across a vampire.

I believe there was also this detail that he couldn't travel unless he was buried in a casket with earth from his homeland.

I still like a good vampire story once in a while, but I was a big fan of Buffy and Angel, and feel those shows pretty much covered al the archetypes and did it well.
All these other vampire stories of the last couple of years just feel derivative of those shows.

**Crimson Spider** · 10-31-2008, 05:17 PM

I really liked how vampires were handled in the first Blade. And in the "No Man's Land" two-issue story from Hitman, vampires were pretty awesome as well.

Originally Posted by Knigge

The one and a half episodes of True Blood I've seen are pretty good.

Holy crap, I've also only seen one and half episodes. And I liked what I saw, too! We should be BFFs.

**jeremy dale** · 10-31-2008, 07:14 PM

The only cool part of Twilight is that Mute Math is on the soundtrack.

**fatmancomics** · 10-31-2008, 07:48 PM

Alright, I didn't read through all four pages of this thread but, if you're looking for a GOOD vampire show you guys need to give Tru Blood a try. It's set in modern day times and the vampires have "come out of the closet" thanks to the invention of a synthetic substitute to blood called-you guessed it- Tru Blood and are fighting for equal rights. It's got a kick-ass storyline with excellent characters (none of which are teenagers), each vampire dresses and acts differently depending on when they were turned and what kind of person they were before it happened. If that doesn't sell you, Ana Paquin stars in it and she's got sex scenes that give late night Cinemax a run for their money. This is the first show that both my wife and I have been excited about since Dexter.

**fatmancomics** · 10-31-2008, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by lost-spartan

Just blame Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, they ruined it for the rest of the average looking bloodsucking parasites.

Alright, now I read the rest of the thread and actually, blame Bella Lugosi because, until the first Dracula was made, vampires including Dracula were hideous. If you watch Nosferatu, that was the way that Dracula was supposed to look but Hollywood decided that they wanted to make him "sexy" so they chose Bella. Funny what they thought sexy was back in the day.

**Akira X** · 10-31-2008, 10:32 PM

Plus Nosferatu was supposed to be sexually irresistible even though he looked like that.

If my girlfriend told me she liked the Twilight books I would push her down the stairs.

**bushiboy** · 10-31-2008, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by jharker

I read the book (mot surprisingly I guess, since I still have a nickname based on it) but I can't recall that detail anymore.
But there were a lot of strange details in that book that didn't stick. Like how he can't walk through running water, which I always found strange. So always make sure you go to the nearest river when you come across a vampire.

That's actually a folklore thing, though i'm not sure how it applies to vampires. Many supernatural creatures (some faeries, ghosts and demons) aren't supposed to be able to cross running water. I believe that was where Washington Irving decided the Headless Horseman couldn't cross the bridge.