User blog comment:BeholderofStuff/Villains I Don't Like But Other People Do/@comment-25008763-20150725122607

in fairness to Angelus most vampires in Buffy are played as vicious beasts, heck.. most demons are.. the traditional Dracula type vampires are a minority in Buffy lore because the show was very much tongue-in-cheek and most of its antagonists were meant to be obvious monsters that Buffy and co beat up while the rest of the show focused on the everyday problems of being a teen.