On the Draw of Vampires

Had anyone told me three years ago that I’d have fallen for a trio of shows about vampires, I’d had laughed in their face and scoffed. However, it is now a fact that now I’ve worked my way through most of the recent television shows on vampires.

As it stands now, I’m twenty-eight episodes away from finishing Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I’ll never really be able to explain why I didn’t watch the show originally, as I have a sick fascination with the 1992 film, but it didn’t grab my attention in high school and I ignored my friends talking about it most of the time (more focused on Dawson’s Creek than anything else.) But knowing that the show has defined so many of the other shows that I adored in the last few years, I finally gave into watch it.

Given that the show started to air almost eleven years ago, and finished nearly five years ago, it’s a different experience to watch the show. More than anything, watching it now is an act of carefully navigating opinions of characters and couples with grace. Not really something that anyone would look to do, but there it is. Luckily for me, no one has decided I’m that strange for liking one couple over another.

But Buffy is the last of the shows that I’ve watched recently with characters who would rather a nice glass of A+ over Merlot. Not that it’s a well known fact there, but I adore the work of Jason Dohring. Which, despite my reservations, got me to watch Moonlight last year (which, if you want to catch it now is on DVD and starting to air on Sci-Fi this Friday before Battlestar Galactica.) I watched Mick and Josef work around Los Angeles (oblivious to most Angel references.)

I don’t think I can say much about the show without having BethAnne or Melissa come after me, so I’ll leave most thoughts for later.

Though, after Moonlight‘s cancellation, BethAnne and Melissa started to talk about True Blood, and so I watched (also out of a love for Alan Ball and his sick sense of human.) We don’t talk about it here, but it got better as the season went along and I’m glad to watch it. Of course, of all three shows I’ve mentioned here, it’s the most graphic (lord bless HBO!), but that seems far more real than anything else.

Now that I’ve worked my way through most of the recent vampire shows, what genre should be tackled next? I’m almost tempted to start Battlestar, but I don’t know. (I’ll save that for another discussion.)