>Everyone by now knows about Twilight, a successful book series and recent movie franchise. It is quite popular with teen girls with one of the lead characters being a sullen, angst-ridden teen vampire named Edward who woos high school student Bella. I’ve seen the mania generated by Twilight in my previous job at a certain chain bookstore franchise where a prom-themed midnight release party was thrown for the last book. To say the least, I’m not a fan. When it comes to vampire action, give me the chosen one. Give me the slayer! Give me Buffy!

Youtube mash ups of movies, TV shows, video games and music are nothing new, and are either very well done, or make you bemoan the fact that you wasted any time viewing them. I ran across an example that pits my least favorite series about vampires against my favorite series about slaying vamps, and I gotta say, it’s pretty good. The timing of video and audio editing is praise-worthy and it made me chuckle quite a bit, and made me want to applaud towards the end.

Now that’s what I’m talking about! It’s somewhat cathartic to see Buffy give glittery, emo, glam-vamp Edward the brush-off and them stake him real good after he becomes a weirdo stalker type. It makes me wonder if there’s a double meaning to the fact that the big bad in the Buffy: Season 8 comics is named Twilight.

-Jim

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