Spoilers Alert: From Sunnydale to Bon Temps, people everywhere have spent years arguing what vampire soap-opera is better. On one hand you have Joss Whedon’s comedic-drama classic series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, on the other is the sexy, bloodsoaked HBO series True Blood. However, there is room for both in our lives and living rooms. True Blood star Kristin Bauer van Straten (Pam) is opening up about newfound love for all things Buffy.
Recently Kristin Bauer van Straten spoke to Vulture where the True Blood actress dished about Joss Whedon’s Buffy The Vampire Slayer:
“It's very interesting, because having not seen Buffy before I did True Blood, I can't help but notice there's a cute lead blonde girl with a silly name, and she falls in love with a vampire, and there's a few other similarities. It's like when I was an art history major--it's interesting to look back and see how Monet lead into what we see with Jackson Pollock. Buffy is our predecessor, and really probably opened the door for the next artist to come along and take it to a new level. I'm in the middle of season four, they're in college, and Buffy is trying to get away from trying to be the Slayer, but of course, she can't. She's being sucked back in, and she's not having so much luck with human boys. Sookie doesn't have the easiest time in relationships, either. And neither did I! And when Buffy slept with Angel, and he became a monster, that was hard for me, because we root for them to be together, and it was so brilliant of the writers to make it impossible. If they ever truly abandon themselves in each other's arms, he will lose his soul. There's parallels there between Bill and Sookie, when he became not such a good guy. And then Bill regains his soul again, so to speak, and became a good guy again, when he saved us all last year.”
She went on to talk about art imitating life as well as other art:
“That's the most amazing thing about True Blood --it looks fantastical, especially this season. You think, ‘How could a small town like this not be protected by the government?’ And then we go, ‘Oh. Right. That actually just happened.’ ‘How can disease be spreading ... ‘ ‘Oh. Right. That actually happened.’ ‘How can people in a town be turning on each other?’ ‘ Oh. That's actually what happens.’"
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