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Along the lines of what Tammy was talking about, here’s an article about the defanging of Vampires.

I hope that there’s a vampire pendulum, swinging from tortured and broody to bloodthirsty and vicious, because I’m personally of the opinion that Angel knocked the shit out of the tortured and broody, and we need a decade of viciousness to get us back on track.

I mean, it’s a bad sign when they come up with Moonlight, a series about a vampire detective in LA who is good, instead of evil, a scant 3 years after Angel went off the air.  Angel, of course, being about a vampire detective in LA who is good, instead of evil.

I’m not sure how many of you actually end up watching TV, but for the few of you who do, I’m curious… Are there any new shows you folk are watching?

With the new baby in the house, and the way that we’re choosing to let each other have uninterrupted blocks of sleep (I get 8pm until 3am, Sara gets the rest of the evening), we’ve actually had a remarkable amount of time to watch new shows. I basically went off of the critical reviews. So, we started the season watching Reaper, Life, Chuck, Pushing Daisies, Gossip Girl, Dirty Sexy Money and The Bionic Woman. So, it’s been…what…about a month or a little more since shows started. (more…)