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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
When you adopt a tone of sweeping dismissal, do take care to follow the argument being made and actually refute it...
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I wasn't dismissing. I merely stated my impression of the reasoning behind the trend, backed by its clear level of success in the media.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Vampire oversaturation has everything to do with parasitic corpses being recycled as boy bands and nothing to do with some revolutionary and socially correct new way of appealing to "YA."
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Your examples amount to exactly the same thing: It has
everything to do with trying to appeal to YA, no matter what that does to traditional characters and tropes, in order to make a buck. Very few literary concepts have managed to avoid the "rebranding for profit" strategy; why should vampires be any different? It's not like Bram Stoker can complain...
And again, I'm not defending or justifying the strategy, I'm just stating.
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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
The "trope" doesn't need to be "transferred" to other "caricatures" because the qualities you're describing are so general as to apply to virtually any remedial teen novel or television series.
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True. Which is how they were so easily applied to vampires.