Is Twilight taking over?

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11 Jan 2011, 4:28 pm

It seems these days that everyone wants to imitate Twilight. An example: when the new Superman: Earth-1 book was released in November. DC comics representatives stated in their promotions that it is"Superman for the Twilight generation" or some such garbage to that effect. Really, I and Twilight can peacefully co-exist in this world so long as it stays in its corner of vampire fad books and movies, and I stick to the things that I like which have nothing to with vegetarian vamps. But what I don't want to see is Twilight mania invades the properties I do care about.

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11 Jan 2011, 4:33 pm

ROFL! Look now Superman sparkles ROFL!! !! !!

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11 Jan 2011, 4:35 pm

It cycles every few years, nothing to worry about. The first one I remember (and despised even then) was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. In a few years it will be something else. Marketers assume that most people are too dumb to make decisions for themselves so direct all their energies into imitating or associating what they are selling with whatever the current "hot" franchise is. Unless they are marketing at 13 year old girls, or the grown women who think like 13 year old girls, they are likely missing the mark by associating everything with Twilight.

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11 Jan 2011, 5:20 pm

Don't worry, its not going to be Twilight everywhere - this spring Supergirl enrolls in Hogwarts, and Robin leaves Gotham to begin his Jedi training.

Later this summer Harley Quinn will recover repressed memories and discover that for more than twenty five years, she's been leading a double life, as pop star Cyndi Lauper.

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11 Jan 2011, 5:21 pm

My favorite explanation:

http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight

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11 Jan 2011, 6:09 pm

MidlifeAspie wrote:

My favorite explanation:

http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight

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11 Jan 2011, 6:24 pm

Sure this fad will move on, but its ruined vampires forever... Real vamps are evil crazy old guys that live in castles and want to turn young women into monsters like themselves, not fall in love with them. Yeeaahh!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h72AJfPe ... re=related

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11 Jan 2011, 6:40 pm

Simonono wrote:

Well, Anne Rice ruined that 20 years ago

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