TRUE BLOOD VS. TWILIGHT

Does anyone know when, why, how this Vampire/Werewolf craze began?? I'm assuming  when Twilight by Stephenie Meyer first hit the shelves in 2005. Its five years later and we are still obsessing over these supernatural creatures. I have to say I'm not a big Twilight fan myself. I find the whole series to be sophomoric but I am also bias because I am a True Blood fan. 

True Blood, the HBO original series by Alan Ball is based off the "Sookie Stackhouse" series books by Charlaine Harris. Like Twilight, there is a love affair between mortal & immortal but theres is more to the series than teenagers, vampire/werewolf alike, forming an alliance to save one girl. True Blood has an array of supernatural creatures from vampire to werewolf to shape shifters to fairies.The only class that has revealed its existence to the human world are the vampires. The other supes stand back and observe how the great revelation for the vampires works out while the human world is suspicious as to what else goes "bump in the night". True Blood is definitely not for the queasy. There are fangs, lots o' blood, torn limbs and SEX SEX SEX!! You know, what vampires are usually known for.

Twilight gears toward the younger generation, ( the same crowd who runs to see High School Musical and knows Miley Cyrus's every move) theres is minimal blood shed and I have yet to see fangs. The werewolves are oversized, CG creations that sort of remind me of "the nothing" from The Never Ending Story. The irony is that should have been Twilights title. Of course, there is eye candy like Teenwolf Jacob, played by actor Taylor Lautner who made the movie tolerable. This kid definitely is a "heart throb", from his washboard abs to his bedroom eyes. As for Edward, (the vampire and love of the main character and narrator Bella)...why does he look like he needs Mylanta in between takes? He looks constipated.

 I apologize to the Twilight fans for this bias blog but Ive been less than impressed with this series. I don't get what all the fuss was about. Yet I still anticipate the release of the next film in the series. In hopes that actress Kristin Stewart took acting lessons that makes her scenes believable and not make me wish she was beheaded and ripped to shreds by Victoria in the last film. Not nice but its my blog and I can blog if I want to. 

I will say I have begun the first book in the series, Twilight. Lets see if its just a case of horrible casting.