It’s inevitably going to get lumped in with the others because, yeah, it’s based on a comic book. But even the comic book was not a superhero series, which is why it was published under the Vertigo imprint instead of as part of the regular DC Comics line.

Loved last night’s ep, especially that final twist with Peyton.

One reservation: Not sure what I think about the business with Liv’s brother (who has barely been a presence in the show so far) going to work for Blaine. I know they foreshadowed it earlier, but it seems kinda late in the season to drop that shoe, given…

Nah, I think Peyton just panicked and ran.

Oh, yeah, given what she’d just been through and witnessed: being attacked by a zombie killer, seeing Liv in full zombie mode, red-eyed and snarling and driving a spike through somebody’s head . . . of course, she freaked and ran. It’s a miracle she’s not a basket case.

In time, she may be able to process this and come…

I admit. I was SURE that was Allison Scagliotti at first, until I rewound the opening credits and didn’t spot her name.

It seems clear that the kids ended up with the infamous Max Rager “memo” (which the show took pains to remind us about in the “Previously on” teaser.) They tried to blackmail the company and . . . oops, I wonder who is killing them now.

“And we need to give Chakotay something to do!”

Oh, yeah, anyone watching “Mantrap” or “Charlie X” could be forgiven for thinking that there was supposed be some sort flirty vibe between Spock and Uhura. Shame the original series dropped that thread pretty quickly.

(They also have some nice, albeit non-romantic moments, in “Who Mourns for Adonais?”)

I actually like Spock/Uhura. We’ve actually never seen Spock or Uhura in a steady relationship before, so it’s new territory to explore.

You win.

So is this the series finale for LOST GIRL or just the season finale?

I saw a commercial for it at the movies before AVENGERS 2.

Here’s an esoteric one:

The Seventh Victim (1946) is an old suspense/noir flick in which a sheltered young woman (played by a young Kim Hunter, aka “Zira” from Planet of the Apes) searches for her missing older sister, who has vanished into the murky bohemian underworld of New York’s Greenwich Village. At some point in…

Well, it’s not like scary vampires have really gone away. I mean, THE STRAIN is coming back to TV just a few weeks from now, and the vampires on PENNY DREADFUL are pretty nasty . .

I prefer to think that vampires have simply spread out beyond horror to colonize other genres as well, so you have vampire romances,…

Fair enough. But because I’ve got a spare moment I’ll expound a bit more.

“Dracula” effectively killed the vampire novel for about fifty years, simply because it set the standard TOO definitively. There were NO important new vampire novels for the first half of the twentieth century, just calcified imitations of…

Sounds like fun. Have you read ANNO DRACULA by Kim Newman? It’s alternate history where Dracula marries Queen Victoria and conquers the British empire. The sequels are fun, too.

I edited a couple of Yarbro’s “Saint-German” novels and read most of the early ones. And she’s still going strong!

And, yeah, I remember the time Anne Rice did a book signing in the West Village in New York City. The line stretched for blocks . . . .

I’m afraid I missed that one. I gave up trying to read EVERY new vampire novel back around 1988 or so. There was simply too much for anyone person to keep track of.

So, FANGLAND is not the same as that movie STAKELAND, right?

I’d argue that it’s more of a classic fairy-tale structure that existed long before TWILIGHT. (Hello, Scheherazade, Beauty & the Beast, Bluebeard, etc.)

Sometimes I think the worst thing the TWILIGHT phenomenon ever did was convince an entire generation that TWILIGHT is somehow synonymous with vampires, and that the…

I don’t know. It’s like aliens or androids. It’s an endlessly versatile trope that lends itself to a variety of approaches and interpretations. You can have sexy Byronic vampires, feral animalistic vampires, scientific vampires, supernatural vampires, diabolical vampires, heroic vampires, reluctant vampires, etc.

How…