Wait? Vampires are supposed to sparkle now?
Wait? Vampires are supposed to sparkle now?
(David Boreanaz)
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OK, What? And BTW, I’m first!
In the book twilight, Vampires “sparkle”, this is one of the people from buffy the Vampire slayer lol so yeah =]
*hands TiM the top half of his semicolon*
They weren’t supposed to really “sparkle;” it was really supposed to look like light reflecting off of them like a crystal, but in the crappy movie with a crappy directer, it looked more like they just powdered him with glitter. Then of coarse they also made a sound like windchimes which was not in the book. Even Stephanie Meyer doesn’t write her vampires that sueishly.
“powdered with glitter” is a generous assessment.
…I just thought he looked sweaty. lol!
I was thinking more furry…
I was thinking more like bugs had infested his skin and were crawling around…
yeah, i thought he looked like he was sweating profusely as well. in any case it was done very badly.
in 1 of the shows he plays in he is a vampire
i sparkle in the daylight and i have no idea why
first?
i actually don’t get it…
What?
That’s David Boreanaz playing Angel from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and… Angel) referencing those Twilight pansies.
May I point out that the vampires in “The Lost Boys” bled glitter?
I believe that was supposed to be dust, but I could be wrong.
When did they bleed glitter?
That is what I am wanting to know as I don’t recall any of them bleeding glitter. :/
Seriously, me, too. The Lost Boys is one of my favorite Vampire movies, and I do not remember them being glittery at all.
If they DID, it was probably just meant to be make-up in that whacky 80’s style people dressed up in back then. They were NOT meant to be sparkly-happy-loveable at ALL…
the only thing bad about the twilight vamps is their stereotypical personalities and the sparkle thing……otherwise, it’s not a bad book series
This guy played on Buffy The Vampire Slayer. And the vampires who sparkle are from Twilight.
It is disheartening to see vampires go from pretty bad ass (like, lets say, Alucard) to prissy boys who SPARKLE in the sun light o.O
Only vampires i ever run into is when I go for my yearly physical.
Man that Dr. Acula’s a pain in the neck.
Ha ha ha!! Oh, that’s awful! Yet, I’m larfing out loud.
Yay scrubs!
BOO! It’s not from scrubs! It’s a Mitch Hedberg joke. now get outa my site!.
Haha! But really, Mitch Hedberg said it better.
A agree! I don’t like the fact that vampires are turning into wimps in the eyes of people because of twilight…Vampires have gone from representing blood, sex, and violence to… abstinence? What?
Really? Abstinence?
yeah…the main male vampire character in Twilight refuses to sleep with his woman until they’re married
Because he thinks he will kill her with his strength.
And when they’re married he’ll be weak and won’t kill her?
No because he was raised in the 1900’s and believed in marriage first
No, once they were married he NEVER killed her. He even slept with her. Knocked her up, even! Half vampire half human baby. Crazy stuffs.
*spoil*
Really? I though it was because Edward was gay.
WIN!
EPIC WIN!
Bahahahahahahaha. I lol’d
Stating the obvious is not a WIN, it’s a ZING, and by no means is it EPIC. Hitting a home run is a WIN, hitting a grand slam is EPIC.
Or, to keep it topical, turning one person into a vamp is a win. Turning a Marine squadron to help you rule L.A. (or B.C. where the sparklers hang out) would be considered EPIC.
The only vampire allowed to sparkle and stay cool is Herbert von Krolock from Tanz Der Vampire (The Fearless Vampire Hunters)… but he sparkles because he’s fabulous.
Odd that when you translate that it means “Dance of the Vampire”… But in a mangled sort of way.
It does mean “Dance Of The Vampires” with ‘dance’ as in ‘a ball’. It’s a Roman Polanski film later turned into an awesome German-language Steinman musical, later turned into an utter crap Broadway musical actually titled “Dance of the Vampires”.
Where did “The Fearless Vampire Hunters” come from?
I guess I sorta mangled myself. What I meant was it doesn’t directly translate to English; if you took the literal words it would be “Dance The Vampire”, but you gotta know German to know it’s “Dance of the Vampire(s)”.
I don’t get where “Fearless Vampire Hunters” comes from though..
The movie title wasn’t literally translated into English for the US release. It’s quite common actually.
Yes, thank you I can see it wasn’t literally translated. I believe I alluded to that above. Telling me it is a quite common movie does not help me see how we get vampire hunting from vampire dancing. I will consult google since no one here seems to want, or be able to, explain this phenomenon.
The reason I brough up the literal translation is because Rammstein released a song in german called “Du hast” and also an english song with the same “music” (which I do not know the title of) where they sang “You hate me”. “Du hast” does not translate to “you hate” it translates to “you have”. “Du haß” would be “you hate”. It irks me that people twist around titles and words like that because then other people think that’s the translation. Everyone though Rammstein was singing “You hate me” in german when they were actually singing “You have asked me”.
*thought
The main ‘event’ of the show/film, where pretty much everything else is centered around is a large dance organised by the vampires, that’s where “Tanz Der Vampire” comes from.
“The Fearless Vampire Killers” refers to two of the main characters, Alfred (who is far from fearless) and Professor Abronsius (who is fearless, but mainly because he is also clueless, fearlessness through stupidity), so it’s a kind of sarcasm in the title.
As for the reason of the translation… the dance obviously is a more musical-ish title and it’s a different product anyway, so that sorta makes sense.
The different movie titles… I think it might be because people in Germany will usually relate “Tanz” to a ball, while English-speaking folks wouldn’t make that connection quite as readily.
Thank you.
ALUCARD KICKS ASS FOREVER
Alucard. <33
Team Alucard Forever!!!
HELL! YES!
And by proxy – TEAM DRACULA FOREVER! We’ll see if the Twihards can figure out how they fit together.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh god…. I’m trying so hard not to actually laugh out loud and attract stares from my coworkers.
Brilliant. WIN.
Lol i agree this is great a WIN
David as Angel equals total hotness win…Twilight pansies equal lose!
Also how does the author of Twilight get off making vampires able to walk in daylight? Half the fun is the late night secret meetings. The only Vamp to walk in day light and not completly die was Lestat and that was because of a whole ancient vampire queen blood transfusion (and he almost did die).
Okay sorry…the vampire nerd just had to let it out.
It’s ok, we all have a little vampire nerd in us.
I know I do!
The best vampire, of course is Bela Lugosi in Dracula. A veeeeerry close first is Gary Oldman in Dracula. Tough call.
I AGREE!! In my eyes, only Bela played a proper vampire. A vampire is supposed to be a monster, not an emo glitter sissy. The ones from 30 Days of Night came close as close as I’ve seen lately. Too bad the rest of the movie “sucked” LOL.
Bela=vampire love
Leslie Nielsen was actually kinda scary in the ballroom scene of Dracula Dead and Loving It.
I didn’t like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I hated how they changed the story too much, instead of being a bloodthirsty and cunning villian he was a poor misunderstood tragic hero. And Mina wasn’t supposed to love him >.>
Still, he didn’t sparkle.
*shudders*
I have never managed to bring myself watch a film of Dracula…. I love the book and don’t want to see it mangled.
the best is the first and the REAL. Vlad the Impaler of… romania? look him up. a true no sparkles. the character Dracula is based off him and thats where this all started right?
apparently they can, they just don’t because they SPARKLE AND BLIND PEOPLE. . .
ugh. wtf twilight.
agree that david boreanaz as angel = total win though. ^^
he lookes so fiiiiine as Angel!!!
sunlight sensitivity doesn’t come from folklore according to wiki. she may have dropped it on that basis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire#In_modern_fiction and to be honest, i like when an author makes some changes to the vampire legend, even though some frustrate me… more often than not they’re still inspired and awesome.
quoting wikipedia for anything=fail.
it’s all peer edited. i could type in the “giraffe page that they like to devour the souls of chimpanzees” and it would be allowed in, and next thing you know, it would be quoted all over the internet.
wikipedia=fail, please don’t take anything it says seriously. there are better, more reliable resources online and in libraries and other such places with the once-well-known thing called a “book.”
wow, quote fail on my part. oh well. wikipedia still sucks.
Good morning, Sunshine. Could you *honestly* do a better job? I trust Wikipedia with all 24 of my college credits, and I’ve been okay so far in my six semesters
The pages have pretty decent moderators and people make it their duty to protect the validity of the pages.
So go ahead. Write your page on soul eating giraffes. Add something about their inherent alcoholism, too. Let’s see how long it lasts.
Mhm, the Almighty Wiki can be pretty useful. I wouldn’t necessarily base my life/entire paper on it, but it generally gives a useful layman’s overview (in the case of technical stuff in my case) and directions to more poncy aca…sorry, I mean serious, ivory tower literature. Why not go research what Desi said in proper resources and then, if the info he/she got from wiki is wrong, THEN stompie.
Not to say I don’t accept your point, but in your case, common politeness FAIL!
It’s one thing to change the legend. It’s another to mangle it beyond recognition.
If I wrote a book about Unicorns, but took away the horn and painted black stripes on them, I wouldn’t be writing about Unicorns anymore. I would be writing about magic Zebras.
There’s a certain criteria you have to fulfil when talking about stock roles, they have to have some general characteristic that coin them as whatever you’re portraying. By removing the fangs, the negative effect of sunlight, giving them ’super powers’ and making them practically invulnerable, Meyer has made characters that share only a couple of things with true vampires.
sunlight sensitivity does not come from folklore, but inspired it. Lupus. Look it up. Blood conditions, coughing up blood, malaise, psychosis, fever- a bit like Lucy in Dracula. This could be the basis of both vampires and werewolves (Lupine).
“Also how does the author of Twilight get off making vampires able to walk in daylight? ” In the original folklore, they could, but were most active at night so they could attack people in their sleep. And if you read Dracula, you’ll notice that he was spotted in daylight more than once. But none of them sparkled!
I did read Dracula, and I know he did spend some time in daylight…but come on he’s mother farking Dracula! he is/was no ordinary Vampire.
This Twilight BS is nothing compared him.
Speaking of Dracula, the third volume of the “Buffy Season Eight” comics is worth the cover price just for Dracula in the last few pages of the comic. While he was a bad joke on the TV show, in the comics, he is Motherfucking Dracula.
He lost his powers though, so it was still a negative consequence.
what about the Vampire from Underworld Evolution? she was in daylight. she didn’t burn up. it’s one of the last scenes.
That only happens after she drinks the blood of the original immortal, thus the whole ‘evolution’ thing. Although, technically speaking, both hers and the guy’s transformations are mutations instead of evolutions, but I guess that’s not exactly a catchy title.
evolution is a mutation. so she may have forced her evolution, by drinking the immortal’s blood, but it’s still one, and she may have developed the ability to walk in the sun eventuly.
mmmm angel
in season four of buffy, spike has the gem of amara + walks out in sunlight + him + buffy fight loads, + he doesnt die
spike is loads better than angel.
i miss buffy :’(
yea but the last season was crazy why ruin the one vampire slayer yea i know i did like faith but i never really did finish the last season 7
but when i first saw this i couldnt stop from busting out laughing
hahaha and it still gets me im so tiered of my friends talking about twilight when i think of vampires i see bad asses but they see a prissy gay sparkly vegaterian with fangs who thinks hes a bad ass i mean come on! i hate twilight!!! Buffy the vampire slayer RULEs you totaly get the image!!!!
i agree,
spike is like the best & james marsters playes him really well.
he’s just got that ‘bad boy’ thing going.
but the only reason he could go out in the sun was BECAUSE
he had the ring on. but as soon as it was gone he did catch fire.
i like in the 5th season when buffy dies, i cry every time i see it. but i think that person was right when they siad you shouldnt mess too much with the legend of the vampire or it just takes all the mystery and exitement out
Actually, the original Dracula was able to go in the daylight. And ancient Slavic legends had cases where sunlight didn’t effect them at all, so That’s about the ONLY thing Twilight might have gotten a little bit right.
Everything else is just fail, though. :\ at LEAST give them FANGS if you’re going to call them Vampires! FAIL, Smeyer, FAIL!
w00t, my first lol to make the page! (and I’m glad to see that people like it)
Well done jstiles85! witty!
Muscle shirt WIN!
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Only if the Vampire is also Mormon.
mmmmm… Angel
Ah, the Furies. They pretty much summed him up.
Angel ftW! -drools-
He’s way hotter than those pansy twilight vampires.. him and Louis from Interview with the Vampire (aka BRAD PITT!)
I do love Interview with the Vampire, and, even though I wasn’t particularly happy with the casting choices, I thought everyone did very well, even Brad Pitt as Louis and, though Lord knows I hate to admit it, Tom Cruise as Lestat.
no angel, stay classy. Those other vampires are fags
FTW!
Angel and Spike > Edward Cullen. Alot.
Heh! Hivemind… kind of.
Is everybody forgetting about Spike? Now THAT was a cool vampire, and no glitter or abstinence at all, of any kind.
He even had that obsessed/stalker thing which made him even cooler from a “vampires should be creepy” point of view. And he did nailed Buffy. Although, now that I remember, he did kindda glittered in the last episode of Buffy… If becoming a beam of fiery destruction can be considered “glittering”.
Spike was probably the single greatest character in all of Buffy. I cried at the very last episode of Buffy, and whenever I get too angry about Stephanie Meyer and her shit, I comfort myself by thinking about the fact that Spike would kick Edward Cullen’s pansy ass.
My favorite Spike line EVER: “You made a bear! Undo it! Undo it!”
My favorite line? When he wake up from a dream in the very last episode and for some reason he says the words “I’m drowning in footwear!” Or his opening comments about Woodstock. I showed my step-dad this lol and his first comment was “It should have been Spike saying it.”
my favourite line is when willow comes back after bieng all ‘total destruction of the earth’ phaze and the gnarl when xander says
‘ great we’ll all be killed by some nasty boulders’ or somink like that and spike says
‘ theres a cave….. im insane. whats his excuse!!!’
OMG YES LOL
i love that episode
pangs!
^_________^
i love spike
they shouldntve made buffy end.
it should still be happening plz
Ahh… Spike. Way more of a badass than fluffy Twilight guy. You couldn’t help but like him, even when he was total evil. Essence of vampire: violent and sexually compelling, but not lovable.
EVERYONE is more of a badass than a Twilight pansy.
yea but im sorry everybody in my family likes spike but me total angle fan! i personally think spikes gay because he was controled by a chip but other than that yea hes an awsome vampire.
Poor Angel. And yes Spike was bad ass
Not going to lie here.. I’m reading the comments and smirking and thinking.. “people think I’m funny”, smug, self-important type of bastard, ain’t I?
Lose! I take back my earlier comment! You should never big yourself up! Now you just sound like a moron, im guessin your a male between the ages of 18-25.
Yup, 23 year old male, and I was joking, and “big yourself up”? WTF?
American?
Did you forget that in my original list of thoughts of why I must be an idiot? Yes, I am American, and I apologize for not knowing your colloquial terminology. Anyway, it wasn’t meant to be an arrogant statement originally, it was a nice jab of sarcasm. No offense to anyone meant.
No need to apologize. The person (lolwannabeee) reacted quite oddly, and immediatly tried to pin steriotypes on you. o.O ?! That’s pretty d-baggy of them. Your comment was much less offensive (and I ‘got’ what you meant; I think most ppl did.)
Angel is epic win. Spike is slightly better than Angel but I still love them both. In Twilight the sparkling and lack of fangs probably pissed me off the most. What was with Edward and abstinence? It is not like a little sex would make him go evil and start killing people like with Angel. Edward should learn a little something from Angelus.
I am such an obsessed vampire nerd.
The point on it was that her scent made his hunger/lust/motherfuckingvampire side come out. Like in the classroom in the film, the fan blows her scent to him and he nearly suffocates himself in his sweater to not breathe it. If they had sex, raised the hormone levels a bit there, her scent coming off her much more powerfully, he was afraid he’d lose control and..well..eat her..
I didn’t think I’d like Twilight (and yep, am/was a huge Buffy/Angel/Spike fan!), but actually, it wasn’t a bad yarn at all. Even though the bit chars are more interesting than Bella/Edward
hey same here *smile*
true
Awesome lol! And yes, Twilight has turned vampires into wussies. Compared to it, even Moonlight, which was pretty corny, looks like an old Chuck Norris movie, you know, with bike-mounted bazookas.
why do vampires have to be sexy and tough? hasn’t anyone seen the show True Blood? There was every kind of vampire imaginable: corny vampires, blonde vampires, southern vampires, redneck vampires, fat & pimply vampires, whiny vampires, gothic vampires, secretary vampires, native american vampires, gay vampires, nervous vampires…
Angel-worst vampire in the history of vampire lore, in my book. Who cares if he had muscles? He was a whiny, brooding, “oh poor me” kind of vampire.
Yes, I have seen True Blood, and from what I saw I can’t see how it’s so critically acclaimed, the writing and the acting both seemed pretty bad to me.
To be fair, throughtout the Buffy (and less-so) Angel series’, there were all those kinds of vampires. Granted, not many of them were main characters, but you did get to see a lot of different personality types as vamps. (Although, most of them had a ‘California’ edge, even the nerdy ones, etc. Makes sense given that it was set in California, during High School / College times).
thats because in the version buffy the vampire slayer vamps have to fight for there lifes because of the slayer insted of being on top of the food chain but so true
Aww, poor wittle Angel missed the memo that only REAL vampires sparkle.
Weird how vampires went from ghouls, to sex symbols, to homos in the span of 80 years.
BUT DEY SO PRETTI IN DA SUNLIGHT !!! not.
Uhh maybe a moot point by this point, but Deacon Frost could be in sunlight with super dooper extra loving sunscreen. Also, having never read a twilight book or seen the movie I feel I am unbiased in saying. Vampires do not sparkle. As everyone has reiterated, vampires are bad ass. Mostly cause they started as Villians who broke and enter to attack people. How they came to be tortured and immortal human beings with super strength I’ll never know. Since when has living forever and going to high school, even come close to vampirism? At least in Whedon world Angel was a whiney little spazz because he was an immortal with a soul, while those around her were kicking their heels up and indiscrimately trying to massacre people and rule the world… which in my humble opinion with super powers, sucking blood and killing people it’s just the next step up. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Just saying…
No, no no no no. Vampires do not break and enter. Vampires must be invited in.
^ while those around HIM (For those sticklers for correct pronouns)
So, I haven’t looked into Twilight. But the vampires can go in sunlight (and sparkle), and don’t have fangs? What makes them vampires? Do they drink blood? are they immortals? It sounds like they have super strength or some powers, so it sounds like they are just kind of like superheroes, not vampires.
Oh, nothing. They’re just a total rape of the entire vampire idea is all…
They live on blood and are super strong and fast!
so twilight vampires sparkle. big deal. still the most interesting vampires i´ve ever read about.
You haven’t read many vampire books, if any, have you?
Two words. Anne. Rice. Give her books a read,
you won’t be sorry you did
Well, if you’re not a Goth or an Emo, give one of her books a read.
You obviously haven’t read much about Vampires, then. >:\
Why don’t you read more then 1 vampire series before you comment on Vampires.
Try Dracula. Or Lynsay Sands series of Vampire Romance. Or try playing the Legacy of Kain games. Or read the Hellsing manga. Or read up on ancient Slavic Vampire myths. Or try Varney the Vampire. Or…you know…ANYTHING but Twilight.
dude the twilight vampires are the fucking best! im a bit of a twilight obsesser obviously. but i think that vampires are SUPPOSED to be immortal and super fast and super strong and breathtakingly beautiful. at least thats how i think they should be if they even exist which im not thinking they do but if they did i think they should be like the twlight vampires.
Um, yes. Most vampires are that way, not just the Twilight ones.
Now please, explain the glitter to me.
then you are a very, very sad person. I weep for you :/
I actually used to really like vampires as a whole…
Then Stephanie Mayer wrote Twilight and my friends wouldn’t shut up about how OMGHOTT! Edwin or whatever his name is.
Then they made a move, and everyone and their mom became a fan. I feel like I’m in a loony bin.
I love Twilight Vamps.
BEST CAPTION EVER
ROFL
Angelus – cruelest vamp ever. Angel, most heartbreakingly beautiful vamp ever. Spike, best vamp all around and the funniest. David Boreanaz…winner all around yummy-ness.
Whyis everyone so freakin obsessed with making fun of Twilight?! I bet half of you haven’t even READ it!
^most common Anti stereotype #3
some of us actually did read it, barfed after the second paragraph, burned it, then tried to save the world before the disease spread. Using intellectual debate, a good literature analysis, and an all round use of common sense, the Antis try to spread the gift of good literature and non-faggy vampires.
How could we do this if we didn’t have any damned clue what the book was about? Where did all of our facts and arguments come from if we didn’t first read it and then debate it?
Actually it seems to me that you might have read it… but truly never got it… The Twilight series calls upon a family of vampires that’s different from the rest, that decide a different path for themselves and that is not different from other vampire stories in the past, take for example Lestat, Louie… They all made choices regarding what they wanted to do or to be and not taking into account what the rest of the vampires did… Angel is another case (taking into account the gipsy course that gave him his soul back) of a non hillikng vampire…
And regarding the fact about the sparkling thing, remember that in the book Edward tells Bella that the fire is not fatal to vampires, it makes them a little weak for being unable to see clearly because of it’s brightness. And the sparkling effect on their skin was actually the cause in the past that led people to start the myth that they bursted into flames when directly exposed to sunlight, just a matter of perception… And talking about perception, I agree that in the movie it might not be the best special effect to picture the whole thing, but remember that the movie and the story are told from Bella’s perspective, I mean she’s in love with the guy and that’s the way she pictured the whole thing, she saw him beautiful and that’s what you guys should understand before going around trashing good movies and stories for other people that haven’t got the chance to read ‘em o watch ‘em…
Anyone who knows anything about Twilight knows that stuff. It’s not hard to understand. It’s pretty simplistic in it’s crappy plot.
Seriously, our understanding of it is NOT the reason we hate it.
twilight was a horrible book and a worse movie. I think people need to be made aware of how bad twilight is before they read the book or watch the movie. I wish i was.
… The only vampire that should be aloud to ’sparkle’ is Drusilla if Ms. Edith told her that the corpses around her needed glitter. And in my opinion, the ‘vampires’ from the Twilight series are not Vampires, they are fangless pansies who could be beat by Harmony. -.-
*Drools obscenely then laments lack of self control*
Twilight is basically a Mills and Boons book using (Note the word.) HORROR characters and trying to pass it off as an original piece of literature. The book is repeatitive and full of grammatical mistakes. All her characters lack originality and there is no proper development. The fact that it was even published at all is a miracle.
Angel = Angsty, guilt-ridden vampire; subsists on animal blood; is in love with a mortal and concerned about what will happen if he acts on that love (i.e. losing his soul)
Edward = Angsty, guilt-ridden vampire; subsists on animal blood; is in love with a mortal and concerned about what will happen if he acts on that love (i.e. taking her life)
They aren’t as different as you all seem to think. Angel, “badass”? I think not.
Anyway, the fact that Twilight vampires shimmer in the sunlight is just how Meyer chose to address the myth. I’m not saying it’s perfect, but I appreciate an author who tries to reinvent a stereotype. The only quality REQUIRED of vampires is the reliance on blood for survival, really. I’ve seen stories where blood-drinking was optional, and vampires could survive on human food. Isn’t that a more horrifying idea than a vampire who can come out during the day?
Sueishly? Really Kat, what does that mean? It’s not a word in my language.
Angel IS more badass than Edward – he fights for the world, stopped many apocalypses (“It turns out I suddenly find myself needing to know the plural of apocalypse.”) and never gives up – and hey, ever seen the 2. season of ATS?
Also, Angel is occasionally whining, but at least he gets off his ass and does something!
And hello, the biggest bad-ass must still be Angelus – ever noticed whenever his name is mentioned, everyone’s face is full of fear and terror?
And uuuh – Edward killed people. Big whoop. Vampires are supposed to do that, moron. (Edward, not any of you)
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I think everyone sees my point.
i sparkle in the daylight…its been like this for years and…i dont know why
i sparkle in the daylight…its been like this for about two years and i dont know why
maby ur a mutant *smile/laugh*
I never was a fan of these, but when the movie came out and my students became obsessed, I gave it a go. Meh. Compared to some of the other crap people are feeding teenagers, it really wasn’t that awful. It’s the sort of thing I can read in the tub and finish before the water gets cold. And it managed to do what George Bush and billions of dollars of education funding couldn’t: make abstinence cool. If you want a recent vampire-based book that holds its own, try Robin McKinley’s /Sunshine/. Blows /Twilight/ out of the water and surpasses the other vampire books I’ve read, simply because this vampire doesn’t have a soul, or a microchip implanted in his head, or is just a whiny emo (*cough* Louis *cough*), or a self-proclaimed veggie. Con is a killer, and when he’s not using the human protagonist as a weapon to defeat their mutual enemy, yeah, he actually goes hunting and kills people.
As for the complaint that Meyer screwed around too much with the mythos, that is a time-honored tradition of acclaimed authors everywhere. A basilisk, by the way, is either a three-foot high half-dragon, half-bird with a snake’s tail and teeth, hatched by a cockerel from a toad egg, or a small snake, no more than 12 inches in length with deadly poison, a lethal gaze, and fear of weasels. How terrifying, though, would it have been for daring Harry to chase around a what surely would have looked like an escapee from a Muppet convention through the Chamber of Secrets? If we intend to decry all authors who’ve mutilated traditional folklore, Mistress Rowling should be the first on the list.
*applause* Many valid points there, and I agree on all counts! (Especially on the recommendation of /Sunshine/. Love that book. Love all of Robin McKinley’s books.)
I was hooked on codiene. Disabled Vet who served in the middle east. What can I do besides NA and ratonal recovery?
Most Vampires I’ve seen walk in the Day Light and Most don’t Drink Blood! I Gaurentee.
Most Vampires I’ve seen Walk in the Day Light and MostDon’t Drink Blood.
Look I am obbessed with vampires, you have no idea!!! I am of course a fan of WHEADONESQUE Vampires (i.e. Buffy/Angel), and honestly I see a lot of similarities between ANGEL and EDWARD, the whole “Im in love with the one person who gets me they just happen to be human” thing. Most of you are right about the vampire sparkly thing, kinda made me angry too… hell I avoided the books and movies for this reason. Then I gave in and read them… Twilight is pretty decent, plus for all of you so pissy about the whole badass vampire thing… Almost all these vampire movies/lore have at least one bad vamp gone good. The twilight vampires sparkle yes… but other then the CULLENS…. they all EAT PEOPLE!!!!! SO lay off… Steph Meyer took her own spin on things…. PLUS YEAH ANGEL COULD SO KICK EDWARDS ASS!!!
Tbh, I really enjoyed twilight. No it’s not as good as some other movies/books. But at leat Smeyer put a different spin on things. It gets boring reading the same sort of thing over and over again. Oh and the guys are fiiiine in the movie. (;
Buffy & Angel were amazing! David Boreanaz is like completely stunnin’! Best vampire ever in my opinion. (: