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[frelling_tralk]

So I don't know if anyone on my flist has even heard of these books, but I was a big fan of the Kelley Armstrong book Bitten and there's going to be a Canadian tv version of it. 13 episodes and airing on Space

And I'm sorry, but I just can't get past the casting. Laura Vandervoort is actually a very good actress, but she's just not Elena to me. I always pictured Elena as being more tomboyish, no make-up, hair tied back in a ponytail. The books always made a big deal about how casually she dressed and styled herself. Then you look at the pictures of Laura as Elena and she just doesn't fit that picture for me at all. Ditto Clayton who the book always made a big deal of having golden curls and being quite angelic-looking, this is just some generic beefcake guy. Not a comment on his acting as I've never seen him in anything before, just in terms of looks he is all wrong for Clayton IMO

First Look: photos from the set of Bitten






(Last pic is supposed to be Jeremy).

Or am I being too picky? :P

Comments

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

They were a fairly popular book series when they were first written 10 years before Bitten was published. Popular enough that IMO that both Joss Whedon and Stephenie Meyers were definitely influenced by the series. Two red haired best friend witches is just a little too much of a coincidence (let alone other similarities)and Twilight even copied an entire series of dialog from LJ Smith. The one where he says "What am I" and she balks and finally names him a vampire.

IMO it's possible that Armstrong never heard of TVD but I wouldn't rule it out.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely I always believed that Twilight ripped off TVD a bit, LJ Smith said that when her books were re-released a lot of SM fans were contacting her to complain that she ripped off Twilight and she would always respond by telling them to check the copyright dates :P

And I suppose it is possible that Kelley Armstrong did read TvD, I remember that Stolen had Elena reference Buffy The Vampire Slayer and season 4 which always made me smile heh, so she could well have been following vampire lit as well. Still the most we can say is that she may have been inspired by the name Elena, otherwise they don't have much in common really

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

Aside from having werewolves that's true. IIRC they treat the werewolves completely differently.