Vampire Shows

As we all know I am a self-admitted television addict. Last night was the 100th episode of Bones. Now I am not going to talk about it right now because I can’t without giving spoilers and if anyone has it DVR’d and has not watched it, they will literally hunt me down like a dog! Just know that David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel knock it out of the ballpark. It was awesome. If you are not following Hart Hanson on twitter, start today, he is the creator of Bones and he totally rocks.
What I am going to talk about is Vampire Diaries. If you have not seen the episode, stop reading, spoiler alert!
Vampire Diaries feeds a part of me that has not been nourished since the Buffyverse created by Joss Whedon left this world. There are so many comparisons to Buffy/Angel and Vampire Diaries, now I know they are both set in the world where Vampires exist, however it goes deeper than that. Damon, wow, Damon, what can I say, I love a bad boy and Damon is shades of Angelus and Spike put together. Last night when Damon asked a homeowner if she had family, children a husband living with her, and she answered in the negative, when he did the careless motion of breaking her neck it was so reminiscent of Angelus doing the same to Jenny Calendar. The human that was there helping Damon rescue Stefan said “Hey!” Damon just looked at him and said “What? Get rid of the body.” It was greatness, something missing from television for a long time. Stefan being injured and Elena offering to let him feed on her to regain his strength was so shades of Buffy doing that for Angel when Faith shot him with the poison arrow.
There are no slayers on here, but there are humans who hunt Vampires, can we say Rogue Demon hunter? Wesley I miss you!
While the writing is not up to the standards set by Joss Whedon (there are few that can live up to the standards he has set in this genre) this show is really good and getting better. I don’t know where they are finding these young actors, but they have done an amazing job, there is not one on here that shows stiffness or awkwardness saying their lines. The teen angst and sincerity in which lines are delivered are nothing short of brilliance. Missing is the humor injected by Whedon in the Buffy world.
The one thing I take exception to is the way the Vamps who are killed die, they don’t turn to dust. Everyone knows when you stake a Vamp or chop their heads off, they turn to dust. On this show that is ignored, lack of special effects budget perhaps? I don’t know, but seeing all of the Vampire bodies strewn about last night was disturbing to say the least.
I don’t know when I started loving the whole Vampire lore, it is not a new thing, I remember when I was a kid back in Oklahoma City, and they showed all of the old black and white horror films on channel 4 every Saturday afternoon. I fell in love with the Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dracula, later when I was in elementary school; I rushed home from school to watch Dark Shadows. Barnabus was just the best!