New Moon

So I finally broke down and saw The Twilight Saga: New Moon. The kindest thing I can say about it was that it was better than the first one. The same flaws are there (especially in the ridiculously emo segment where Bella mopes for several months after Edward leaves her) but the production values are better and the plot, at least in the last third, is actually pretty interesting. It also has some real actors this time, in the form of the superb Michael Sheen and Dakota Fanning as two of the Volturi - vampire royalty that seem to have stepped out of an Anne Rice novel. The werewolves look good, too (I'm referring to them in wolf form, of course, not the hot guys with their shirts off).
I have to admit my biggest problem with this series (apart from how awfully written the first book was) is that if any vampire story was going to become a giant cultural phenomenon, why this one? It is almost certainly the least interesting interpretation of vampires in history. Is it too much to hope that all the Twi-hards will sit down and watch an episode of Buffy or Angel and realise how inferior Stephenie Meyer's universe is compared to Joss Whedon's?