Actually, Angel and Buffy are more of a rip from The Lost Boys, than anything else. The only real difference is, Buffy is a slayer.malestrithe said:Fact of the matter is, Whedon started this new vampire trend by having the first modern vampire television series that does not suck. Other might have set the ground work, Whedon made the formula that everyone else is copying. Because of Whedon, all humans females are bad copies of Buffy, all vampires are bad copies of Angel, and all werewolves are bad copies of Oz.
And I like Buffy and Angel, but I am willing to accept that this was the genesis of the modern vampire formula.
As for Oz, I don't see many of these modern 'werewolves' being similar copies to Oz. At all.
They're not even bad copies.