Something Delightful

Buffy vs. Edward

Watch here an icon of my generation (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) handling the unwanted attentions of an icon of the generation behind me (Twilight's Edward Cullen).

I've commented a bit on what I feel about Stephanie Meyer's book in the post about the naked Harry Potter scene. I've also told people what I think about the whole Twilight saga, that it's basically a rip off the second half of the second season of Buffy. In that season, Buffy's boyfriend Angel (a vampire with a gypsy curse that returned his human soul) consumates his relationship with Buffy. This act of perfect happiness breaks the curse, and he loses his soul. He begins tormenting Buffy as only a vampire lover can.

In Twilight, this relationship is defanged (if you'll pardon the pun), and Edward is a 'vegitarian' vampire. Angelus (Angel's evil form) is willing to kill and scheme and try to end the world. Edward... doesn't. They're supposed to fill the same archetype, but Edward fails miserably. There's no real subtext to Edward. He's a fantasy; the dreamy guy who's devoted to you. It makes me angry.  The rumor I heard of somebody trying to remake the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie makes me even angrier.

Anything made in the vampire horror genre post-Twilight will have to measure up to it. Even if it doesn't try to, the critics will. In my opinion, the sooner Twilight fades out of the public eye, the better. Then we can get some quality vampire flicks, like Blade or The Lost Boys (spoken in only half-sarcasm).