Readers Speak: 'Twilight' and 'True Blood' Fans Who Tried the Other Series

By The Pop Chorus Posted Jun 18th 2010 02:10PM

With 'True Blood' kicking off its third season and 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' hitting theaters in less than two weeks, we think it's safe to say, it's vampire time. (Unless it's always vampire time these days. Then, um ... we dunno.) Doing our best to avoid a bloodbath between fans, we listened to our loyal Pop Chorus, full of Twi-hards and Truebies who tried one series based on their love for the other. Some found one saga too chaste, the other too violent, and some were pulled in by their new fix and never looked back. Read on for testimonies from our readers!

Alexandra Erwin: "I loved 'Twilight,' but became a Truebie"
I was a 'Twilight' fan, mesmerized by Edward, loving the chemistry between Bella and her vampire honey. I liked how things melted together in the saga and how the books and films concentrated on the three characters I really wanted to know more about -- Jacob, Bella, Edward.

Then I was introduced to 'True Blood.' I was sucked in by how gritty and dirty it was. Before I knew it, I needed to watch more. I love the dark drama; it always keeps me guessing. The suspenseful soundtrack adds to the atmosphere, keeping me on the edge of my seat. Then there are the sex scenes, which are everyone's fantasies put on television. I tried watching 'Twilight' again and found it slow compared to the high action and intense drama 'True Blood' offers. I'm truly a fan turned to the darker side of things.

'Twilight' and 'True Blood' Fans Face Off

'Twilight' and 'True Blood' Fans Face Off

Holly Wilson: "I tried 'True Blood,' but I'm a Twi-hard for life"
I love 'Twilight.' Love the forbidden love story and the romantic yet protective gestures Edward makes for Bella. It's the perfect love story with the perfect amount of vampire mixed in. I've seen the first movie over 30 times, 'New Moon' close to 20 and have read the books at least five times. I can't get enough. So when a friend brought up 'True Blood,' I thought I'd give it a try. Hey, it's about vampires, after all. I love 'em, so I was sure I'd enjoy 'True Blood.' Not the case. The HBO series is too gory for me!

'True Blood' doesn't center on the relationship between immortals and humans enough for my liking, although it does come closer to following the sacred vampire rules -- no vamps out during the day, no entering houses without being invited and the ol' wooden stake and silver hazards. So while 'True Blood' is more believable, 'Twilight' lets you dig a little deeper into a fantasy world. 'True Blood' revolves around numerous characters and their issues; I need the focus to be on one core couple you can root for and fall in love with, 'Twilight'-style. Yes, the adventures of Sookie and co. are edgier and scarier than Bella's and better suited to an older audience, but 'Twilight' is good for all ages, and there's just more love and passion.

Benjamin Williams: "I love 'True Blood' and couldn't stomach 'Twilight'"
I've been a fan of 'True Blood' since the first frame rolled -- the way the writers and cast blend fiction with reality has always been a major selling point for me. My girlfriend, however, is a huge 'Twilight' fan. Anything and everything to do with Stephenie Meyer's franchise is a topic of conversation in our home. When my lover insisted I turn off 'True Blood' one night and watch the first 'Twilight' movie, I kept an open mind and watched diligently ... for the first 30 minutes. I wanted to see something that would turn me into a fan and, well, it never came.

'Twilight' forces me to follow the story from a very limited viewpoint. All the characters are focused on one of two things -- love/heartbreak or action sequences. With 'True Blood,' I'm given a diverse cast, each with their own story and motives, which keeps things interesting and suspenseful. It goes without saying that Twi-hards have a genre-defining epic on their hands, but Truebies simply have a more memorable time tuning in to an unstoppable series each week.

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Tags: Pop Chorus, True Blood, Twilight

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Friday 18 June

By balticstein

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I love them both but for different reasons, I love Twilight because becuase it's more like Romeo and Juliette only with vampires and I love True Blood for it's gritty hard core drama it's like watching Peyton Place only with vampires.

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By Rich

Its very simple: vampires CAN NOT GO OUT IN DAYLIGHT, Stephanie Meyer has msde up her own rules, Twilight is NOT a vampire story, True Blood is the REAL THING! Wake up people, if you don't believe ME, read the original: Bram Stoker's DRACULA!!!

By DEAN

STOKER IS HARDLY THE FINAL SAY IN VAMPIRE LORE. HOWEVER, HE DID DO A FAIR AMOUNT OF RESEARCH, AND WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE FOR HIS TIME. DRACULA WAS A RATHER BORING STORY AFTER HE AND HARKER LEFT THE CASTLE. STOKER SHOULD HAVE LET IT END THERE.

By Christine

Rich -

You do realize that Bram Stoker made his "rules" up too right? He also took lots of old wive's tales and oral traditions that have evolved over centuries and generations in to account when he wrote Dracula. Vampires are not real. Anything that anyone writes about them is perfectly fine because it's all fiction anyway!

Saturday 19 June

By Kander23

I wouldn't say that Bram Stoker's Dracula was the original. Dracula is from 1897, but John Polidori wrote The Vampyre (a short story) in 1819. Though I did enjoy Dracula, I do not find it the final say in vampire lore. Many other modern vampire tales such as P.C. and Kristen Cast's House of Night series and Mead's Vampire Academy series revolve around vampires who can go out in the sun. I do not believe that just because Stoker wrote about it, then it has to be vampire fact. All of this is fiction anyways, who are we to say what vampires can or can not do as they do not exist.

Anyways, I enjoy both True Blood, and Twilight. I also love the Vampire Diaries. It's a good show and Ian Somerhalder is awesome!

By Ana

They're vampires hence they don't exist and they can do whatever their authors get them to do! True Blood the TV show is good but definitly does not translate well in written form (i.e. the books were horrible!).

By Jessica

I disagree, I found the books exciting and hard to put down. I read the Twilight books first and loved them! But found it rather difficult once I reached Breaking Dawn. Blaaaah Each and every one of the Sookie Stackhouse books were awesome! I couldn't bare to stop reading until I finished. Charlaine Harris kept me in suspense. I just hate that they're so short :(

By ninja koala

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I loved the Twilight books and the movies are pretty good too, just different. True Blood is cool for all the sex and violence lol. Just because they're both about vampire/human relationships, they're totally different. I mean Twilight TOTALLY has a Mormon agenda to it, which I don't mind but, you can't deny it's there. True Blood is just "bad" in a good way. You can sort of draw parallels in between the 2 as far as some plot things seem similar but the Vampire/shape shifter genre is hardly a new one. I love them both!

By shellibelli

I enjoy both but the trueblood books are way better and very different from the shows since its all told from Sookie's point of view and there is not alot of sex in it.

I prefer the sookie books over the show

By Brianna

I love both, but I am start to hate Twilight now with all of exposure that it's getting. I loved Twilight when it first came out. True Blood is nitty and gritty. and I like it. I'm in the stage where nitty and gritty is good for me.

By shiloh2000

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Both shows suck. Vampire stories are all deadly dull and boring -- and are nothing but a rehash of the same story over and over and over again. It's about time Hollywood came up with something new -- or vampire fans got tired of watching the same thing over and over and over. Really, how stupid do you have to be to watch this drivel?

Sunday 04 July

By mary

Are you kidding me???????? Every movie now is the same but a different title and different actors. Why should this be any different?

By fbunnym

Um...enough with this stuff. Go watch Buffy or Dracula, people.

By karen

You mentioned Buffy in your post. I defintaly agree on that score. I think the reason why I am more attractd to true blood is its darkness. Buffy had a darkness to it as well and that drew me in. Also the reality of both shows was/is amazing. I like twilight alot but i LOVE true blood and LOVE buffy for its dynamic story lines. You should watch true blood to see what I mean.

By outlawsgun

BOTH TWILIGHT AND TRUE BLOOD SUCK, AND NOT IN A GOOD WAY. I AM SO FREAKING SICK OF GLAM-PIRES. ANNE RICE IS THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO VAMPIRES SINCE STAKES AND HOLY WATER. GIVE ME BUFFY AND ANGEL ANYDAY, OR BETTER YET JOHN CARPENTER OR BLADE.

By Manx

is that sarcasm i read?

By mmzig18

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I am a twi-hard mom. But I also got hooked with the True Blood series. I dont think I can read any other books about vampires/wolves/immortals. I tried but I always feel like they sound like Twilight too me. But I love reading Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunter series but that is it!!!!

By ex fan

since vampires don't exist...I say it's safe to say that it doesn't really matter what the authors do with them...I am a twi-hard...have been way before the movies came out...but my friend told me about the Vampire Diaries and I started watching them and am in love...I've never watched True Blood but from what I've gathered...it's gory...Vampire Diaries offers a blend of romance and suspense and I absolutely love it! People say the vampire craze is over but it's still amazing! Way better than Twilight!

*bear :P

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