{"id":62277,"date":"2014-07-04T15:19:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=62277"},"modified":"2014-07-04T15:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:20:31","slug":"true-blood-season-7-star-admits-buffy-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/true-blood-season-7-star-admits-buffy-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"True Blood Season 7 star admits Buffy influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David Boreanaz and Sarah Michelle Geller in Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

It’s a point long since accepted as truth that without Joss Whedon’s groundbreaking (and ground-opening) Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/strong><\/em>, we’d probably have no Twilight<\/strong><\/em> movies, no Vampire Diaries<\/strong><\/em> TV and certainly no True Blood<\/strong><\/em>, now entering its final season.<\/p>\n

“I had never seen Buffy The Vampire Slayer<\/strong><\/em>,” reveals True Blood<\/strong><\/em> Season 7 star Kristin Bauer van Straten, speaking exclusively to SciFiNow<\/strong>, “so I’m going back and I’m watching that now.<\/p>\n

“I can’t help but see the parallels and think that without Buffy<\/strong><\/em>, I’m not sure there would have been True Blood<\/strong><\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Kristin Bauer van Straten as Pam in HBO’s True Blood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bauer van Straten, who plays the scene-stealing Pam, clearly sees HBO’s scandalous supernatural soap as a similarly high watermark and not an lacklustre imitator, and she hopes that True Blood<\/strong><\/em> has the same incredible legacy as Whedon’s genre gamechanger.<\/p>\n

“We can’t help but notice on True Blood<\/em><\/strong> that there’s yet another vampire show happening,” continues the star without naming names.<\/p>\n

“It’s definitely opened the door again to this arena that’s been around for a long time and I hope that in 20 years time that people are [still] being forced to watch the DVDs.<\/p>\n

“For 20 years my friends have been saying, ‘You haven’t seen Buffy<\/strong><\/em> what’s wrong with you?!’ I hope that happens to True Blood<\/strong><\/em>.”<\/p>\n

True Blood<\/em> Season 7 is airing now on HBO in the US and from 7 July 2014 on FOX in the UK.<\/strong> Pick up True Blood <\/em>Season 5 on DVD for £28.75<\/a> or Blu-ray for £36<\/a> from Amazon<\/a>.co.uk.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n