The Legacy Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Buffy in one of her earliest battles when she moves to Sunnydale!

My wife and I were watching TV recently when I came across a TV show that I found to be particularly fascinating... This show being Syfy's 'Lost Girl'... Now this show has to do with a supernatural succubus who sort of fights the forces of both mankind (as need be), and the supernatural (it seems like this is the one that happens the most from what I can tell so far...)

Sound familiar? Well try this one on for size, this show also has the succubus, along with her human friend working under the guise of a very low level Detective Agency, while fighting big bads... Alright maybe not a part of Buffy's legacy, but definitely part of, 'Angel's'... And well lets be honest, Angel can definitely be said to be a part of Buffy's legacy... So indirectly, it could be said that, 'Lost Girl' is as well right?

Now on to the more direct ones... And the first one that I am going to say, would be, 'True Blood' (2008 - 2014):

True Blood... A great Vampire show that wrapped up this year!

Now this show tells the story a woman from a small southern town who has special powers, and who ends up being inducted in to the world of vampires and the occult when she catches the eye of a lone Vampire... Sound familiar? It should, because Buffy came from a big town to a small town, where she decides to give up fighting the forces of evil, but comes back in to it when she catches the eye of both a loner Vampire, and her new, 'Watcher', who wants her to continue fighting the forces of evil!

Another one... I have not seen it yet... To be honest, I don't have a lot of hope for this one... This one being, The Vampire Diaries...

The reason being is that this show truly does seem to be almost like the, 'Deep Impact', to True Blood's, 'Armageddon'... (A reference to two separate Science Fiction movies, they had very similar story lines, and came out at roughly the same time, but one was better then the other...)

True Blood & The Vampire Diaries... 2 distinctly similar TV shows, released about the same time, with roughly the same plot lines...

This show basically takes place in Virginia and tells the story of a girl who falls in love with Vampire brothers, and ends up becoming involved in the supernatural world because of it, with all of the life threatening situations that come with it!

Now I have heard that Joss Whedon plans on eventually remaking, 'Buffy' as a new movie... If he does, well I hope that it will be as good as the show he created all those years ago... But regardless, as it stands, the above mentioned shows are just a couple of examples of the growing legacy that the TV show has ultimately left behind for the rest of the world to enjoy!

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