Eh, I was more thinking along the lines of the fact that the style of vamps that are popular now are polar opposites of most of the vamps in the Buffyverse, especially Spike and Angel.

If one was holding on to the idea that the studio was cashing in on the vampire craze, one would expect to see a vampire of some kind as a more central character rather than a human like Pike. Of course that could also draw on the idea that Pike ends up turned which would be interesting.