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!

For more information on these shows, please check these out!

Five Characters From Angel That Didn't Make It To The Bitter End

Buffy The Vampire Slayer... Now this show was truly amazing... In a small way you could say that Buffy did to the world of horror on the small screen, what Star Trek did for Science Fiction on the small screen... Just on a significantly smaller level!

What I mean by this is that where as Star Trek has kept audiences entertained now for a couple of generations, it does appear that Buffy has only done so for one...

Never the less, this show was truly awesome, and spawned a spinoff that I would say may actually be even better then the original, 'Angel'...

With that said, I thought that you guys would enjoy a fond reminder of 5 characters that did not make it to the bitter end...

At number 5: Lilah Morgan (Stephanie Romanov)...

Lilah Morgan with the senior partners at, 'Evil Inc...'

Now this character... She was a lot of fun, she was everything that a high powered lawyer can be, she was smart, she was sexy, and when it came to Angel and his crew, she was ready to take them down... And not in the court room! But when she died during Jasmine's reign of terror... Her own brand of wicked evil was sorely missed... That was until she offered the Angel crew a job working at the Los Angeles branch of, 'Evil Inc.'!

At number 4: Winnifred 'Fred' Burkle (Amy Acker)...

Winnifred 'Fred' Burkle (Amy Acker) with Gunn (J. August Richards), Fred was a character that was sorely missed at the end of the series!

Don't get me wrong, I did like the whole thing when Fred turned in to, 'Ilyria', I mean she definitely kicked some ass as in that role... But the Angel crew already had that, and the truth is, is that I found that I personally missed, 'Fred'... I mean when Cordy left the series, in a lot of respects, 'Fred' kind of became the heart of the group... And with out that, I found that things were lacking... And I think with her there to the end, the ending of the series would have been that much better!

At number 3: Connor (Vincent Kartheiser)...

Vincent Kartheiser's role of, 'Connor' never got the chance that it should have!

The truth is, is that he was there at the end of the series, but not...What I mean by that is that the show brought Vincent Kartheiser in at the end of the series to do a little fighting and then disappear... The problem is, is I felt like the show really did not give Connor the time he deserved, and in all honesty I kind of felt like he should have been there at the bitter end... Which he wasn't.

At number 2: Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carptenter)...

Cordelia Chase was bad-ass thanks to the work that Charisma Carpenter did with the character on both, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' & 'Angel'!

Now she was an interesting one... What I mean by that is that besides David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter was the only character from Buffy to make the permanent transfer from BTVS to Angel at the very beginning... And when it was decided not to bring her back, it was kind of sad, because the truth is, is that by the end of the series, the only actors permanent member of the cast that had been there from the beginning was David Boreanaz (Who played, 'Angel')... And not only that, but Cordelia Chase ended up being the only main character from either series to have died! (In Buffy, Joyce Summers died, but that character always was just a recurring role, and not a main member of the cast.

At number 1: Allen Francis Doyle 'Doyle' (Glen Quinn)...

Doyle (Glenn Quinn), unfortunately a role that was awesome, but never quite made it through out the series...

The truth is, is that losing Doyle was inevitable... What I mean by this is that Glenn Quinn, who had been taken off the show about halfway in to the first season for his hard partying and heavy drinking, (and from what I had read at the time,) and how it was affecting David Boreanaz's performance, with him joining in with Mr. Quinn...

Well ultimately the brilliant B Movie/TV star passed away while the series was still on the air, so sadly, I hate to say it, but we would have lost him anyway... The reason I put him at number 1, is because he was a cool character, one that would have made a great addition to the evolving series if he had remained on the series!

Five Classic Sci-fi/Horror TV Shows That Would Eventually Be Put To Print

One of the great  things about the 1990s is that the 90s on TV, saw a rise in the number of truly amazing Science Fiction & Horror TV Shows, a couple of great examples of this of course being: Star Trek & The X-Files... Well one of the things that happened with a lot of these classics, it is something I noticed around the mid 90s, and that is that some of the best of  the best of the Horror & Science Fiction genre on TV were being put to print!

With that said I thought that I would give you guys, '5 Classic Sci-fi/Horror TV Shows That Would Eventually Be Put To Print'!

At number 5: Star Trek



In number 4: Buffy The Vampire Slayer



 

At number 3: The X-Files



At number 2: Angel



At number 1: Battlestar Galactica



As a side note, all of these were not only made in to books, but also in to comics!