Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Vampires Are Officially Too Popular...

Far be it from me to begrudge the undead their day in the sun (so to speak), but I find myself feeling nostalgic for the days when vampires didn't sit at the popular-kids table. But with Twilight and Tru Blood casting a long shadow over this year's People's Choice Awards (aka "the lowest-common-denominator popularity contest"), there's no getting around it: They're so mainstream it hurts. At least, it hurts old school fans like me.

Some of which is probably just that I hate the Twilight franchise: Abstinence fables wrapped in a layer of vampire mythology are not my idea of a bloody good time. But it's also that once upon a time, vampires (and horror in general) were a litmus test: People who shared your interest in such things were probably people who were going to be your friends. Even if I were 11 years old, I suspect that I'd find as many kindred spirits among the Twi-heads as I would at a Disney Princess club. And I hate to see vampires — even silly sparkle vampires — hanging out with such simpering wimps.

2 comments:

achyfakey said...

Nah. Zombies! Now zombies are too popular. And I used to wait for Zombie Theater to come on TV every Saturday afternoon back in Pittsburgh, so you know it's bad now.

miss flickchick said...

Yeah, but zombies are still gross -- they haven't been tamed for twelve year old girls.