As you may have noticed, Vampires are all the rage these days with the genre pervading popular culture. Someone decided they are a concept that works and then before you know it they’re everywhere. It’s like what happened with Uggs and now look where we are. That’s right, ashamed.

You used to only see vampires on Halloween, or on the field trips  to Wal-Mart’s corporate headquarters in elementary school. In such limited doses, they were tolerable though fixated on efficient supply chain management in the latter instance. Now you can’t escape them thanks to Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire Diaries, Being Human, and a bunch of other things that people who shop at Hot Topic would know about. I guess Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a little full of herself regarding her job title because there still seem to be a lot of Vampires out there she didn’t get to. No wonder it was canceled.

I guess it’s that it’s hard for me to see why Vampires, of all things, have achieved such notoriety. They seem to be pretty one dimensional and highly flawed given that all they really do is suck blood and that they have some sort of food allergy issue with garlic. FYI, this type of behavior puts them at a high risk of contracting Hepatitis C. Here’s a typical day in their life as far as I can tell: wake up, apologize to bloody person next to them & exchange contact info without really intending to call, get coffee, suck some blood, avoid garlic, maybe update their LinkedIn status, and then call it good. I thought being boring and genetically flawed only got people like Jon&Kate + 8 on TV, but clearly this is not the case.

But anyway, back to my point which is that I am tired of Vampires because of their ubiquity in popular culture at the moment. They’ve just come to symbolize the lack originality we find in popular media because everyone is doing the Vampire thing. I know each show/movie/book has it’s own twist on it, but it’s pretty transparent that instead of coming up with new ideas, studios & networks would rather take a concept that has proven itself and figure out how to eke out an existence on it. It’s ironic because you’d think that Vampires and leeches would be in direct conflict with one another, but I guess the two are complimentary in this case.

It hasn’t always been this way though- Bram Stoker’s Dracula had a certain elegance to it, mostly because when you read it, you didn’t envision men in way too much white makeup. Unless maybe you did because you’re into that, which, you know, is cool except in Utah. Dracula became a classic for good reason and basically spawned the entire Vampire genre. I’m not saying shows like True Blood aren’t good, I’m just saying that if you decide you’re going to be creative and write a book, or produce a movie or TV show about Vampires, then someone else beat you to it so do something original like write about people trapped on a desert island or something. It could even be a reality show if you want. Just stay away from Vampires cause that whole genre is pretty well covered these days. Kudos to whoever started this whole thing though, because you turned out to be right that the concept had legs. I wonder if you’re the same person who started the legal show trend of several years ago, in which case, it’s nice to see you coming up with an idea for a show that doesn’t take place at a law firm set in Boston. Now come up with something else, or at least let me know where I can find reruns of Alley McBeal. Either way, no more Vampires, please. Thank you.