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So I briefly touched on this in my last post about True Blood, but I wanted to discuss aging and vampires in more detail.
If you don't mind me raving about Jessica's character for a minute, I want to point out that she has two disadvantages working against her: she was a sheltered teenage girl and she is a new vampire. She's both learning how to be an adult and how to be a vampire, and both of those are visible. When she's telling Hoyt that he doesn't understand, she says that both because he doesn't know what it's like to be a vampire and because Jessica is a teenager and thinks no one understands what she's going through, and isn't going to bother to explain.
The "is a vampire dating a teenager a pedophile" debate is one that is really fun, personally. Are vampire really their age? Is it like they've lived multiple lifetimes or do they hit a stasis point where they don't have to mentally deal with aging and such and so stay at a twenty-something mentality?
Which ties into why Spike and Damon falling in love with a human and changing works for me and Eric - not so much. Spike and Damon are both "only" around two hundred years old and have spent that time in emotionally juvenile relationships. Eric was a mother fucking viking. If my math is right (always questionable) that means he is at least a thousand years old. A. Thousand. Years. Old. ....And Sookie is special enough to catch his attention because....? I don't mean this as a diss on Sookie, in particular. I just can't believe that after meeting as many people as you would in ten. different. centuries. you would not find anyone unique.
That said, I do find it interesting that Eric seems a little bit more emotional whenever he's around Godric, and I wonder if that's because, given that Godric is his maker, Eric feels safe enough with him to be a bit more vulnerable and less detached and in control.
If you don't mind me raving about Jessica's character for a minute, I want to point out that she has two disadvantages working against her: she was a sheltered teenage girl and she is a new vampire. She's both learning how to be an adult and how to be a vampire, and both of those are visible. When she's telling Hoyt that he doesn't understand, she says that both because he doesn't know what it's like to be a vampire and because Jessica is a teenager and thinks no one understands what she's going through, and isn't going to bother to explain.
The "is a vampire dating a teenager a pedophile" debate is one that is really fun, personally. Are vampire really their age? Is it like they've lived multiple lifetimes or do they hit a stasis point where they don't have to mentally deal with aging and such and so stay at a twenty-something mentality?
Which ties into why Spike and Damon falling in love with a human and changing works for me and Eric - not so much. Spike and Damon are both "only" around two hundred years old and have spent that time in emotionally juvenile relationships. Eric was a mother fucking viking. If my math is right (always questionable) that means he is at least a thousand years old. A. Thousand. Years. Old. ....And Sookie is special enough to catch his attention because....? I don't mean this as a diss on Sookie, in particular. I just can't believe that after meeting as many people as you would in ten. different. centuries. you would not find anyone unique.
That said, I do find it interesting that Eric seems a little bit more emotional whenever he's around Godric, and I wonder if that's because, given that Godric is his maker, Eric feels safe enough with him to be a bit more vulnerable and less detached and in control.
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That is true. And one of the things that is interesting about this mass coming out is that vampires are having to deal with the culture fetishizing them in a way that hadn't happened before.
And without giving any spoilers, Sookie IS special. Maybe not exceedingly unique in personality, but in other ways. Including creepy ways vampires notice, like smell and taste. She would catch his attention if nothing else, and maybe he's lonely, or drawn to the fact that she is one of the few who sees the person before the vampire.
I actually know about why Sookie is so attractive to vampires, and while I think that was, in some ways, a very creative idea, I think it could have been done more interestingly.
And isn't that part of the fantasy - that someone with so much wisdom and experience has never met anyone like YOU before? That you can have such a strong affect on someone who shouldn't be affected by much of anything anymore?
That is TOTALLY the fantasy. It's why Twilight and Anita Blake is so popular and there isn't a damn thing wrong with that fantasy... but in a lot of ways it's not MY fantasy, so while some people will watch the Eric and Sookie relationship play out, I'm leaning back and drooling over Eric and being very meta about it.
And Bottom Line: Eric is a viking, a people who regarded their women highly. Bill is an Antebellum southern gentleman from a time of chattel-marriage. AND IT SHOWS. Eric >>>>>>>>>>> Bill.
Ha!