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Come to think of it, boys had Vampirella, so girls can have "Twilight." |
It started because a few adapters of the Dracula story decided there should be a romantic link between Mina and Dracula, some even built that link on Mina resembling Drac’s long lost love from his human days. Then Ann Rice (and a few others, the creators of Forever Knight come to mind) comes along and thinks this “forever love” thing is cool and runs right off the deep end with it, along the way they realize vampires don’t age, and of course “forbidden creature of the night” has so many superficial similarities to your basic “bad boy” romantic figure. And walla, vamps are romantic undead demigods.
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Come to think of it, boys had Vampirella, so girls can have "Twilight." |
I guess I’m lucky I missed all that stuff.
I think we need to add Frank Saberhagen to the list to, for his Dracula tapes.
Oh well.
Forever Knight is probably one of the best sources to bring up in this discussion.
Nicholas Knight was a vampire who realized much too late that he had lost his soul.
There were several shockingly “Christian” moments in the series (before it went to USA).
In the first episode the Medical Examiner who discovered his secret asks him about all the “myths” and why they exists. When she asks him about the Cross he explains “Because the Cross is the truth and our lives are lies”.
Nick Knight was at the fore-front of the pentitant vampire protagonist era, but he was also one of the most honest: he knew he had lost his soul.