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The current popularity of vampires
Jeff Wrangler:
OK, I'm venting a bit here, so either indulge me or move on. ...
I'm more than a little pissed off at the hoo-ha over Twilight and True Blood and the consequent current popularity of vampires in entertainment. What I wanna know is, Where were all these vampire lovers during the 2007-08 TV season, when Moonlight lasted only one season in prime time? Thank God for DVD.
Alex O'Loughlin, as "vamp" L.A. P.I. Mick St. John, and Sophia Myles, as Internet news service reporter Beth Turner, were so good together and so much fun to watch--as was Jason Dohring as Mick's millionaire "vamp" friend Josef Kostan. The show was well written, witty, even a little quirky at times, and sophisticated. And maybe that was it's problem. :-\
Alex O'Loughlin was incredibly masculine and sexy as Mick, in his form-fitting knit shirts, though not nearly as pretty, I suppose, as Robert Pattinson--at least in the eyes of tweeny-bopper girls, anyway. On the other hand, there was no explicit sex (it was broadcast TV at 9 p.m. on a Friday, after all)--which, I gather, is one of the drawing cards of True Blood (plus, I've seen photos of Ryan Kwanten with a--presumably fake--hard-on in his tightie-whities).
So maybe that was the problem with Moonlight: It was too adult and sophisticated for the tweeny-boppers but didn't have enough sex to satisfy the folks who would make True Blood a hit. :-\
Like I said, Thank God for DVD.
Mick and Beth rule!!!!! ;D
Kd5000:
Where were you for DARK SHADOWS (1991)? :D I really liked that show, but vampire tv series don't seem to do well. TRUE BLOOD does seem to be the exception.
Vampires have been popular for some time. It's interesting to see how they evolved from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice's version to the ones in TRUE BLOOD.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Kd5000 on June 19, 2009, 11:22:31 am ---Where were you for DARK SHADOWS (1991)? :D I really liked that show, but vampire tv series don't seem to do well. TRUE BLOOD does seem to be the exception.
Vampires have been popular for some time. It's interesting to see how they evolved from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice's version to the ones in TRUE BLOOD.
--- End quote ---
Friend, Dark Shadows goes back a lot farther than 1991. I remember of the original version, afternoon soap opera, with Kate Jackson before she became a big star, from when I was a kid. It showed afternoons before I got home from school.
Kd5000:
Yeah, I used to watch it when I came home from school (1rst grade). One day, the show was gone. My mom had to explain to me that it got "cancelled" and I didn't really grasp the concept. I use to have the board game DARK SHADOWS and we'd play it outside an old abandoned house for atmosphere effects. We never saw no vampires.
louisev:
I was a Dark Shadows fan ! The original series ran from 1966 to 1971, but I saw it in reruns in the mid 1970's. One of the best things about the series was that it did not glorify vampires, but rather it was treated as a curse which Barnabas and his friend Dr. Julia Hoffman, tried to cure. I find the entire premise of these latecomer vampire stories to be rather laughable, with the "glittery" vampires and the type of teenager plot obsessions they put into "Twilight." The more I read about the plot of these recent ones the more I think about back when we had REAL vampires!
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