Imitation is said to be the sincerest form of flattery and that’s all very well and good until someone actually copies you and then you reconsider how flattered you are that someone would out and out copy you.
Of course if the effort is made to at least differentiate a little, deviate enough to show your mark then maybe it’s a little easier to swallow.
Such is fact of life in the popular culture universe. If you are popular then there will be similar material produced in order to try and catch some of the overspill. Currently Twilight is probably a good example in the book world, with their distinctive covers I’ve lost count of the number of knock off covers trying to cash in on the chances that your dodgy great aunt might pick up the wrong book by mistake.
Then others argue that Twilight itself is derivative of its own predecessors and I am of course in no argument there although I don’t condemn on this basis either. One of those predecessors was Buffy the Vampire Slayer which was a trailblazer most certainly, now take a look at these two covers:
The first is from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and features an iconic publicity shot from either season one or two, the second is from the Vampire Academy series:
All I’m saying is that they could have tried not going down that path. OR are we going to call “homage” in this case?
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when are we going to star seeing MidMoClub ripoffs do you think?
Nah, very few comments on Buffy series these days (maybe considered too old for the fickle instant gratification generation?) so I reckon it's just laziness, thinking that the current teeny boppers wouldn't know what Buffy, Angel or Spike were if they tripped over them in an open grave on top of the Hellmouth
I think we'll be safe for a little while
I think the Vampire Academy books are a couple of years old and I personally think the popularity of Buffy is still going generally strong especially considering the reaction to Spike coming to Brisbane.
although I've been looking round the podcasting world and there are a few out there which have a similar idea to us. Not as well done of course.
That goes without saying, poor bastards must cry every time they listen to one of our podcasts – tears of jealousy.
so you've redone the blog again haven't you
I'm not sure in the homage/rip-off discussion. It's so obvious that they ripped it that it just múst be an homage….
It's been quite a while since I've given the old place a make over and I think it was well and truly due, not that I think it's deviated THAT much from the last model.
You know, the author of the Twilight books claims to have never, ever seen an episode of Buffy.
If you like rip-offs check out this site. I don't know what's more fun, the blatant rip-offs or the whiners who claim rips when it is, at worst, just a derivation of a basic style.
I believe her because she certainly didn't lift or emulate any of the sharp dialogue from Buffy
Wow that site is great!!!
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