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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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