The Vampire Diaries Review, and something I saw that annoys me. . .

Okay, not alot of time here, so I'll take care of this first. The Vampire Diaries premired tonight on the CW (as well as the new season of Supernatural), and is based on a book series that I'm a fan of. While there are many differences from the book, the show was extremly good at keeping the overall feeling of the story intact (which to me, is almost more important that getting all the details right). The acting was good (did any one notice who plays the brothers? :D ), and on top of all that, the music played throughout the show was amazing. I don't know about you, but if a show has good music in it, I'm more likely to watch it (honestly, there are shows I've watched solely for the music, anyway. . ).

Sorry, it's kinda dry. Maybe I'll give another review at the end of the season.

Now, on to what annoyed me immensly (spelling?) today. It was a convo on facebook that my friend was having in relation to The Vampire Diaries. She was commenting on the fact that it looked like it was going to be an interesting show, and the convo progressed from there. I'll just use first initials to tell who was talking. My friend is T, the annoying person is N. and I'll add my comments at the end.

T: The Vampire Diaries is a combination of like ten books, four shows and blood. should be an interesting first series!

N: sigh.. people need to get over vampires already..

T: i have a feeling they will be around for a long time N.

N: Something that doesn't exist can't really be around. On top of that, fads are never around for a long time. The essence of the fad is to come and go in waves of popularity, this one just so happens to be taking an annoyingly long time to keel over. Hopefully once it does it will stay down for a pleasantly long amount of time.

My comments: okay, so in reality, T pointed out to N most of what I'm going to say. But that's not the point. I'm like a die-hard vampire fan, and have been since as long as I can remember. So I need to vent my annoyance. . . .

First of all, vampires started out as myths/legends (blood drinking gods and demons) and folklore. It wasn't till much later, like the 1800s or so, that they were written about in any other sense. Yes, I'm talking about Dracula. Since then they have been "popular" off and on as a source of entertainment. But I wouldn't call vampires a fad. They are, and always will be, first and foremost folklore. While we have changed them almost completly from what the ancient civilizations would recognize as a vampire, they are still folklore. Our vampire stories are just our modernized version of folklore and legends.

Okay. I'm done now.

Lol. um, well, still in school. obviously. So I'm real busy right now. Tons of homework. Not much fun stuff. Homecoming's in a few weeks. Not sure if I'm gonna go or not. Depends if I get a dress of the dance. But I'm definatly going to the game. There's something cool about walking around the football field's outter track when it's dark outside. idk.