Wow, CW--you really are going after the teen girl audience, aren't you?

[norwich36]

So I was rewatching "Afterschool Special" tonight, mainly for Dean in gym shorts, and I saw a preview of that new vampire show on the CW that's going in Smallville's old timeslot: Vampire Diaries. And wow, does it look like a terrible Twilight ripoff, though a little googling informs me that it's actually based on a book series that predates Twilight. (I may have even read the books--they sound vaguely familiar). And I guess a cast that includes Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder is going to be a plus for some people. But I think if I end up watching it it's mainly going to be for the same reason I ended up seeing "Twilight": to mock it mercilessly.


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[miss-saigon.livejournal.com]

I was a HUGE L.J. Smith fangirl in junior high and I was ridiculously excited when I heard they were making one of her series into a tv show. The Vampire Diaries would not have been my first, second, or third choice of her series to see adapted but as you said they're obviously trying to draw the Twilight fans. I'm sort of horrified by the actress they cast to play Elena--the female lead. I'm familiar with her "work" from Degrassi the Next Generation and she stands out as a bad actress on a show filled with fairly bad acting. Plus, Elena is supposed to be a blonde, beautiful mean girl queen bee types but they seem to have changed her to make her more like Bella from Twilight. I don't know I'm not holding out a lot of hope that the series is going to be any good, but if they use the canon at all the vampire brothers are pretty slashy so I'm hoping to at least some good stories come out of it. Wow, that's probably more than you ever wanted to know about my feelings on the show, sorry /o\

[yaycoffee.livejournal.com]

I have to watch at least the first few episodes, because I'm a sucker for anything with vampires AND I know most of my friends will be watching, and I want to be able to talk about it. I don't expect to like it. I'll give it 3 episodes, but then I'm hoping I can quit.

Who knows? Maybe it'll be surprisingly good. That happens sometimes, right?

[pepperjackcandy.livejournal.com]

I have to watch at least the first few episodes, because I am a sucker for anything with vampires is the closest answer you had to "I'm going to check it out because I'm curious. If it's not too mind-numbingly boring, I might even stick around."

[clari-clyde.livejournal.com]

Yeah, sure why not, I’ll give it a try. My those vampires are pretty aren’t they?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I used to love L.J Smith when I was a teenager, although the Vampire Diaries were never my favourite. Personally I'd have been way more excited for a series based on her Night World books

But I'll probably check out a couple of episodes of this at least, even if the trailer does make it look incredibly lame.

[anoel.livejournal.com]

You forgot watching it for slashy vampire brothers!