I was just trying to figure out why is it that I can say that Vampire Diaries is in so many ways as good as Buffy and when I first thought about it I did say that Buffy is more feminist and more emotional.
Think of all the academic papers and essays on Buffy. There are college courses on it. "Buffy studies" is an actual term. Are people going to write as much about the Vampire Diaries? Buffy was a phenomenon.
But- purely as a television show, vampire diaries is more consistent and compact in quality. Buffy has a geater variance. Xena's the extreme example of even greater variance in quality and a cultural phenomenon.
Think of all the academic papers and essays on Buffy. There are college courses on it. "Buffy studies" is an actual term. Are people going to write as much about the Vampire Diaries? Buffy was a phenomenon.
But- purely as a television show, vampire diaries is more consistent and compact in quality. Buffy has a geater variance. Xena's the extreme example of even greater variance in quality and a cultural phenomenon.
Aha! You've finally come around! But then I see you nearly recant again in the response. The shows ARE different. I pick Vampire Diaries over Buffy if only because of the vastly superior caliber and quantity of prettiness. Everyone on Buffy was fairly average-looking. Riley was cute, but he's about as cute as the plainest guy on VD - Matt. Ok, fine Riley was cute. But no one had anywhere near the gorgeousness or sexiness of Damon, Stephan, or Tyler. Angel and Xander were puffy and rarely took their shirts off, for good reason. Here on VD, we get gratuitous male nudity like noone's business. Also Buffy herself, I don't like her physical type the way I liked Xena or Nikita. And the chemistry between Damon & Elena is at least as good as Buffy & Angel or Buffy & Spike.
What finally makes VD better than Buffy is the story - the underlying, overreaching plot. It's an ongoing mystery with consistent character development, far more suspenseful. Also, a lot more cute lovely romance. Buffy just had angst.
And the last 5 minutes of the season finale - I've never rewatched any piece of television as many times as that. May be the best 5 mins of TV I've seen. I was breathless, I was screaming at the TV, OMG.
What finally makes VD better than Buffy is the story - the underlying, overreaching plot. It's an ongoing mystery with consistent character development, far more suspenseful. Also, a lot more cute lovely romance. Buffy just had angst.
And the last 5 minutes of the season finale - I've never rewatched any piece of television as many times as that. May be the best 5 mins of TV I've seen. I was breathless, I was screaming at the TV, OMG.
The Vampire Diaries is the successor to Buffy. It's awesome like Firefly was awesome.
- 04/08/2010 01:44:52 AM
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I'll try again. First episode was awful though... *NM*
- 04/08/2010 09:44:19 AM
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I couldn't get halfway through it, and I watched the full season DVDs of True Blood & Moonlight *NM*
- 05/08/2010 12:50:38 AM
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I *love* True Blood, & Moonlight was ok. I've tried 3 eps of VD, it's just not for me. *NM*
- 07/08/2010 01:44:56 AM
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I watched an episode the other day...
- 04/08/2010 01:34:30 PM
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The last 5 minutes of the season finale.
- 04/08/2010 08:04:36 PM
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I never really thought it's better than Buffy.
- 10/08/2010 01:14:51 AM
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