Some of you know that I’m a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. It’s one of the better-scripted series to have appeared on television with plenty of wit, depth, and cute women talking smack and kicking ass. It deserves a lot of credit for kicking off the modern pop culture fascination with all things vampire. Which brings me to the Twilight series. Now, I haven’t read any of the books or seen any of the movies, but from all the reviews I’ve read of Meyers’ oeuvre, it seems like pretty weak tea compared to the Buffy series. A bunch of mopey vampires and a heroine who doesn’t really do anything heroic making googly eyes at each other.
A brilliant mashup of the Buffy and Twilight franchises lays bare the stark differences in how these two fictional universes regard women. Take a guess as to which one takes a more patriarchal view and seems to imply that stalking is perfectly acceptable behavior for hysterically emo guys. And don’t even get me started on a comparison of the dialog. Ick. Just…ick.
heh heh heh “hysterically emo.”
I too am a Buffy fan. I only just saw the show this summer though. Finished the whole series in a little over a month.
Edward does seem hysterically emo and extremely douchey. Go Buffy!
I didn’t watch Buffy when it was on. I think I was busy having babies at the time. LOL I did read the Twilight series though at my teen daughter’s urging. I did really enjoy the books but the movie (the first anyway, I haven’t seen New Moon yet) did not live up to the book.