Poor Telly

We have just watched the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Diarist The Vampire Diaries. I now have an unaccountable craving for cheese.

I feel safe in assuming that I am not the target audience, being both male and at least thirty-five years too old. I imagine that my youngest niece, who is approaching thirteen, would sit there with a soggy hanky thinking that it's all too true and lifelike etc. Oh dear. Aren't vampires supposed to be nasty and evil? Didn't Buffy do the whole tormented vampire with a soul thing? Didn't Buffy do the whole "my best friend is a witch" thing? Didn't Buffy do it with humour and intelligence?

I miss Buffy.

I miss rock hard nasty vampires more. Ones that go on a rampage and end up getting a gruesome if open-ended demise at the hands of the good guys.

At one point after a particularly dramatic piece of emoting, the screen faded to black. We both expected the credits to roll as we had had our 44 minutes worth of teen angst, but no - we had had a mere 24 minutes of it. We were barely halfway through. Should I watch any more of them, which I fancy is an extremely remote happen stance, I think I would find myself cheering on the cross-eyed elder brother with the strangely pear-shaped head. At least he was tearing through the extras in a suitably gory and refreshingly uninhibited fashion.

Oh yes. Rings that protect the vampire wearer from the daylight. Didn't Buffy do that?

We also caught up on Supernatural. Much better. The evening's viewing wasn't a complete bust.

Poor Telly

We have just watched the pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Diarist The Vampire Diaries. I now have an unaccountable craving for cheese.

I feel safe in assuming that I am not the target audience, being both male and at least thirty-five years too old. I imagine that my youngest niece, who is approaching thirteen, would sit there with a soggy hanky thinking that it's all too true and lifelike etc. Oh dear. Aren't vampires supposed to be nasty and evil? Didn't Buffy do the whole tormented vampire with a soul thing? Didn't Buffy do the whole "my best friend is a witch" thing? Didn't Buffy do it with humour and intelligence?

I miss Buffy.

I miss rock hard nasty vampires more. Ones that go on a rampage and end up getting a gruesome if open-ended demise at the hands of the good guys.

At one point after a particularly dramatic piece of emoting, the screen faded to black. We both expected the credits to roll as we had had our 44 minutes worth of teen angst, but no - we had had a mere 24 minutes of it. We were barely halfway through. Should I watch any more of them, which I fancy is an extremely remote happen stance, I think I would find myself cheering on the cross-eyed elder brother with the strangely pear-shaped head. At least he was tearing through the extras in a suitably gory and refreshingly uninhibited fashion.

Oh yes. Rings that protect the vampire wearer from the daylight. Didn't Buffy do that?

We also caught up on Supernatural. Much better. The evening's viewing wasn't a complete bust.