Watch Vampire Diaries Online
Though they have never been that unpopular, the undead have very seldom been as pop-culture-beloved as they are now — or as frequent as bloodlust sex symbols. Sure they have used their wide-eyed stare to capture a few about-to-be-bitten maidens in their time, but they have never had it quite this easy, with adult females so willingly throwing their necks at their feet.
That hunka-hunk-of-biting-love version of vampire lore gets a new boost from CW's Vampire Diaries, a television amalgam of Twilight's teen-angst broodiness, True Blood's humor-spiced thrills, and the good boy/bad boy dynamic that is a teen soap's lifeblood, which means CW may have found a pitch-perfect program in Vampire co-creator Kevin Williamson, who practically invented the teen soap with Dawson's Creek and reinvented horror films as grisly comedies with Scream.
To Watch Vampire Diaries Online, the books Vampire is based on predate both True Blood and Twilight, but you cannot the Watch Vampire Diaries Online show without feeling tonal reverb from both, with every CW soap from Dawson's to One Tree Hill thrown in for good measure. The parts are amusingly rearranged, but even the teen girls for whom the show is designed will recognize them as old, possibly even as old as the show's dueling blood brothers.
The nice bite-boy is Stefan (Paul Wesley, who makes good use of his sad eyes and impressive eyebrows), a centuries-old teenager who has returned to a small Virginia town out of love for Elena (the lovely Nina Dobrev). The more interesting bad boy is Stefan's older brother Damon, played with a great deal of murderous charm by Lost's Ian Somerhalder, who understandably loves playing the difficult sibling for a change, Watch Vampire Diaries Online.
Despite a few twists (the boys have magic rings that let them move about in sunlight), it's all familiar stuff in Watch Vampire Diaries Online. What Vampire adds is a kind of knowing, self-referential jokiness that lightens the tension without dissipating it. (Stefan correctly dismisses Damon's use of a crow as "a bit much, don't you think?")
Competent as Vampire may be, there is also something rehashed and filtered about it, to the point where it sometimes feels like the kiddie-ride version of True Blood, and perhaps appropriately so. Some adults will no doubt tag along, but this show is aimed squarely at young girls, and they are likely to bite.
And that's all the love CW needs with Watch Vampire Diaries Online.
Though they have never been that unpopular, the undead have very seldom been as pop-culture-beloved as they are now — or as frequent as bloodlust sex symbols. Sure they have used their wide-eyed stare to capture a few about-to-be-bitten maidens in their time, but they have never had it quite this easy, with adult females so willingly throwing their necks at their feet.
That hunka-hunk-of-biting-love version of vampire lore gets a new boost from CW's Vampire Diaries, a television amalgam of Twilight's teen-angst broodiness, True Blood's humor-spiced thrills, and the good boy/bad boy dynamic that is a teen soap's lifeblood, which means CW may have found a pitch-perfect program in Vampire co-creator Kevin Williamson, who practically invented the teen soap with Dawson's Creek and reinvented horror films as grisly comedies with Scream.
To Watch Vampire Diaries Online, the books Vampire is based on predate both True Blood and Twilight, but you cannot the Watch Vampire Diaries Online show without feeling tonal reverb from both, with every CW soap from Dawson's to One Tree Hill thrown in for good measure. The parts are amusingly rearranged, but even the teen girls for whom the show is designed will recognize them as old, possibly even as old as the show's dueling blood brothers.
The nice bite-boy is Stefan (Paul Wesley, who makes good use of his sad eyes and impressive eyebrows), a centuries-old teenager who has returned to a small Virginia town out of love for Elena (the lovely Nina Dobrev). The more interesting bad boy is Stefan's older brother Damon, played with a great deal of murderous charm by Lost's Ian Somerhalder, who understandably loves playing the difficult sibling for a change, Watch Vampire Diaries Online.
Despite a few twists (the boys have magic rings that let them move about in sunlight), it's all familiar stuff in Watch Vampire Diaries Online. What Vampire adds is a kind of knowing, self-referential jokiness that lightens the tension without dissipating it. (Stefan correctly dismisses Damon's use of a crow as "a bit much, don't you think?")
Competent as Vampire may be, there is also something rehashed and filtered about it, to the point where it sometimes feels like the kiddie-ride version of True Blood, and perhaps appropriately so. Some adults will no doubt tag along, but this show is aimed squarely at young girls, and they are likely to bite.
And that's all the love CW needs with Watch Vampire Diaries Online.
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