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Ask and ye shall receive. Just yesterday, some of us here at Double X were waxing nostalgic for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and lo: Today, Salon book critic Laura Miller offers a run-down of "urban fantasy" novels whose heroines would make our dear, departed, demon-killing California girl proud... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Hey ladies—are you weirded out by the strange sexual power dynamics in Twilight? So is Buffy the vampire slayer, and she's got something to say about it. Like to hear it? Here it goes... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Vampires have been done to—undeath?—this year, and most people have probably quenched their neck-blood thirst with True Blood, Twilight, and Let the Right One In. But as a longtime Buffy fan and a lover of all things CW, I can't wait for the new drama Vampire Diaries, which I just read some buzz about. As vampireophiles know, all mortal actors get about 50 times hotter when playing a vampire. (Was anyone else shocked to see James Marsters looking all drawn and old in P.S. I Love You—a mere shell of the sexy, leather-clad non-man he was as Spike?) So the combination of Ian Somerhalder (blue-eyed Boone from Lost) and Zach Roerig (sexy cowboy from Friday Night Lights) is almost too sizzling to imagine. Willa, do you have any inside info on what to expect?
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I have to say, I never saw the appeal of vampire cinema. Classic Dracula lit, steeped in metaphor, or even Anne Rice variations on a theme, OK, but I missed the cultural wave of Buffy and never saw the draw of bloodsucking dudes on-screen, even cute ones. Hanna's observation that the movie Twilight, a giant hit, by the way, is a template for Christian tenets of sexual abstinence, has changed my perspective. For sexually developing young women of all religious persuasions, timid about the physical and emotional risks of early sex, I suddenly see the allure of a nice safe vegetarian vampire.
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