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Try as I may, I can't get into any of the whole genre of vampire shows that have proliferated since Buffy. TVD is no exception. I suspect it's a generational thing.
Before Buffy, vampires were bad guys. Period. Stories ended with a stake driven through their hearts.
Now there are good vampires, morally ambiguous vamires, vampires in every moral or psyschological flavour. Why? We already have creatures like that: people. Why do we need vampires as stand-ins for us? What's the attraction? What's added by long incisors and a taste for blood rather than power, wealth or fame? I just don't get it.
I read reviews of TVD suggesting that all sorts of people take it quite seriously, and think it's unusually good TV drama. It may be, but the whole morally-diverse-vampire genre just seems so weird to me that I can't get past that.
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