You know how a joke loses its appeal the more popular it gets?
I used to love vampires, because in D&D, they take you down two or three levels with every touch, which is a ***** to recover from. That alone made them extremely frightening and respected in my mind. In my book, the nastier and more dangerous you are, the cooler of a monster you get.
All that Twilight, Underworld and True Blood vampire thing is bullshit. They took a great monster and made it an effeminate emo douche. Yeah, one of the key aspects of vampires is that they retain human consciousness (and sometimes human conscience/humane conduct) but that's no reason to make them into a race of troubled adolescents who will inevitably fall in love with a human. Whatever happened to the gloriously evil and sophisticated vampire who had a fucking castle for a house and routinely mingled with aristocracy? Whatever happened to the maniacal feeder who just enjoyed their afterlife? What happened to the member of a commune that did not suffer from the human problems of infighting and treason, let along morality?
The same thing that happened to phrase "the cake is a lie." Vampires became popular.
I used to love vampires, because in D&D, they take you down two or three levels with every touch, which is a ***** to recover from. That alone made them extremely frightening and respected in my mind. In my book, the nastier and more dangerous you are, the cooler of a monster you get.
All that Twilight, Underworld and True Blood vampire thing is bullshit. They took a great monster and made it an effeminate emo douche. Yeah, one of the key aspects of vampires is that they retain human consciousness (and sometimes human conscience/humane conduct) but that's no reason to make them into a race of troubled adolescents who will inevitably fall in love with a human. Whatever happened to the gloriously evil and sophisticated vampire who had a fucking castle for a house and routinely mingled with aristocracy? Whatever happened to the maniacal feeder who just enjoyed their afterlife? What happened to the member of a commune that did not suffer from the human problems of infighting and treason, let along morality?
The same thing that happened to phrase "the cake is a lie." Vampires became popular.