Tried to run errands today. just to the gas station and a department store and the grocery store for a couple things. but everything was twice as busy as usual. twice as many cars on the road – it took 45 minutes just to buy gas. Twice as many people in the stores. People who simply aren’t there the rest of the year suddenly show up and crowd over the stores and gas stations just because it’s the holiday season. it makes no sense to me at all – where do they shop the rest of the year, or is this the one time of year they shop at all? what about the traffic – do they just NOT DRIVE the rest of the year as well? it scared the bejeezus out of me. I’ve been recovering for the past couple hours. ate some leftover pizza. watched the latest episode of Sanctuary on my DVR.
as far as vampire tv shows go, i like Sanctuary better than true blood. True blood has boobs, yes, but Snactuary has more scifi stuff and conspiracies and so forth with less soap opera. I have to admit, though, true blood has been getting better as well. as the season has progressed we’ve gotten a steadily deeper peek into what vampire society was like before you could get fake blood at the grocery store, back when they were still in hiding, and i like it. what worries me is the trend of making every other character something supernatural. Sookie can hear thoughts. Bill is a vampire. Sam’s a shape shifter. Tara and her mom have demons. if that’s the direction they wanna go, they really need to get an experienced comic-book writer in there to wrangle all their monsters and mutants. Joss Whedon’d be nice, or Warren Ellis, because in all honesty, trying to make a Vampire Romance when you’re setting things up to be more like X-men just isn’t gonna cut it.
Needless to say, I will not be subjecting myself to Twilight when it comes out. I can only handle so much anne-rice-knockoff, and one episode of True Blood a week meets that limit. also, the twilight vampires aren’t really vampires. they survive in daylight. they don’t feed on people. they’re just really fast, really strong immortals that get into fights from time to time, more like Highlanders, essentially, and i have no interest in teen-drama overall.
November 15, 2008 at 8:48 pm |
Actually it wasn’t until later in the game when vamps couldn’t be out in the daylight. Bram Stoker’s, ‘Dracula’ was out and about in the daylight. And in some early movies he could be out in the daylight but with diminished powers.
November 15, 2008 at 9:37 pm |
Good point. I do recall Drac putting on his finest suit and going out on the town during daylight hours, which is how he met Mina Harker. That was fine with me, because it made him that much more menacing – he could be out and about whenever it suited him being villainous.
I get a strong sense, largely from articles in Fangoria, that these Twilight vamps are far removed from Dracula’s good example.