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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reflected_Shadows" data-source="post: 6849589" data-attributes="member: 6828291">It came from a few interviews about the subject of contending with "being the default cheap copy" just because someone else came first. One of them was with a pro wrestler, Demolition Ax (Bill Eadie) who said "Yeah, the first Indian and all others are a cheap copy, the Road Warriors came out first... were we just a cheap copy? Well, if you let that stop you, you must have thin skin... besides, a lot of very successful products are heavily inspired".Which shows the occasional reset button. I offer that when the first renditions of Ravenloft came out, that Bram Stoker was relatively in recent memory - so the vampires were inspired by that recent memory, much more than the popular film Dracula or the cult film Nosferatu. On one hand, we can all go around looking to be the next reset button, or we can look for problems in current markets to address. I strongly hate Twilight and feel it reads as it were written by a high school level writer. I have peer reviewed better stuff in undergraduate english classes, seriously. Twilight capitalized on the last 10+ years of Vampires being focused on the themes of Wes Craven's Vampires and Dusk to Dawn. Either a stupid, slapstick teen comedy - or as unintelligible monsters. The few efforts to portray a modern vampire - like Forever Knight, went largely unnoticed. There was also a few seasons of a Vampire: The Masquerade show. And it gained little attention. So, there was a desire among "Vampire Fans" to have vampires portrayed more like "The Crow" and less like "Dusk til Dawn". That is where Stephanie Meyer capitalized. The people I know who said they liked twilight said it felt like "The Crow" version of a vampire movie (I strongly disagree for a hundred bajillion reasons, but the point is - people wanted a "The Crow" version of vampires, and whether or not she did create that, she made people feel like she did). Whatever it is you want to do - I think a good option is to find something that "I would like if it weren't formula fiction crap at the front register at Walmart", then make a more intellectual, in depth version that hits all the right marks. Because as said above, we still have to try whatsoever in order to succeed.</blockquote>

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