What the hell happened to Buffy? Back in the 90s TV and movies were full of cool kick-ass women warriors. Each piece with a well done aspect of drama and humor. Now I look at things like the new Nikita, True Blood, and others and I wonder when did we stop doing this well. Sure Nikita kicks butt and Sookie hangs with vamps, but its not believable. When Lucy Lawless threw a chakram or swung a sword I could pretend to buy it for an hour at a time. But when Milla Jovovich says a one-liner flips through the air and blows of the head off a zombie, sure its cool, but do I believe in Alice? Hell no! I just wish she'd shut up and get to the point.
In no other genre does this disappoint me so as Sci-fi. Speculative fiction was always about pushing boundaries and making you think about your life and your world in a different light. These days it seems its a silly way to sell garbage stories Hollywood has no more use for.
I love vampires. As a medium, as villains, as a role-playing game. They make great supernatural monsters for gothic horror, romance, action, just about anything; vampire have been adapted to be everything. But the current selection of fiction regarding vamps is weak. Not for how they treat the vampires, but rather for how they treat women, story-telling, and the art of literature in general.
In short I am dissatisfied with the current aspects of the female lead in fiction, both visual and written. I am dissatisfies with modern vampire stories. I hope to be able to change that in the future with an influx of my own work into the world and I urge others to do the same.
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