This week’s See Jane Clack has me pondering vampires. Oh, the vampires I’ve loved and lost. OK, I’ve never really had them, but let’s just put it this way: while I’m watching the TV shows and movies, they’re all mine. When the show leaves the air, then I’ve lost them. Until I watch the DVDs, that is; then they’re mine again. Spike, Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel), Mick St. John (Moonlight) … heck, even Barnabas Collins (Dark Shadows) was mine back in the day, but he was a little creepier than the aforementioned vamps.
But this week, I’m brooding over True Blood‘s Bill Compton and Twilight‘s Edward Cullen. These are two vampires I hold close in my heart, only in different ways….
A tale of two hairdos. I’m not so much into Edward’s messy hairdo. Really, I just want to take a brush to his head, and maybe a little shampoo, too. Good lord, I sound like a mom! I’m much more into Bill’s neat and tidy look. I mean, if a vampire has messy hair, it should be because *I messed it up. I’m just sayin’…
Ladies with moxie. The women these vamps hang with are feisty and fearless, and that’s putting it mildly. While Bella was pretty gutsy wandering off with Edward into the woods and being the guest of honor at his family home (full of vampires, mind you), Sookie is definitely way braver than I’ll ever be. She not only went to Fangtasia to talk with head vamp Eric, but she’s now embedded in the creepy Fellowship of the Sun Church to flush out the vamp-nappers.
Experience Counts. Edward is just a young pup in vampire years. He’s only 108 years old, and has been a vampire for 91 years. And you can tell, too. He’s awkward with Bella, unsure of himself, inexperienced. Bill, on the other hand, is 169 years old, which OK, isn’t that much older, but he was 38 when he was turned (28 in the books), and had a wife and five children. Let’s face it, he had learned a lot about women and relationships during his time as a human, and that shows in his relationship with Sookie. Yes, he was a little shy with her at the beginning, but he has no problem standing his ground. Unfortunately, this season that meant Sookie stomping off into the woods in the dead of night and getting attacked by a manead. Hmmm … maybe Edward wins in this category after all, even though his relationship with Bella caused her to be attacked by James. What can you say? Vampire love is dangerous business.
Hotness Factor. How do these two stack up in the hotness category? Well, let’s just say I wouldn’t kick ‘em out of my bed. Although after the gore-tastic scene with Bill and Lorena rolling around in bloody sheets in “Hard-Hearted Hannah,” I’d have to lay down some rules about the combination of blood and sex.
What say you? Who’s YOUR vampire daddy? Edward or Bill, or perhaps one of the other hot vamps who’s populated TV and movie screens?
Clacked by Jane Boursaw 
on Aug 07, 2009 @ 14:00 EST5EDT
I’m an Eric girl all the way!!! love the books, so lets hope they can put a little of that in the series.
Hmm, I’m not certain if I buy either rendering of vampires, and have to jump on Natty’s bandwagon. In the past 10 years, Angel, Mick, Edward, & Bill represented overdone romantic ideals. Despite having lived for 100+ years, inexplicably, none of these men truly experienced ‘love’ and, therefore, can only pledge their undying devotion to the first intelligent, sassy human woman (allegedly different from the other 1000+ women with intelligence and sass) they meet. I know I should swoon at the idea of a gorgeous, devoted, forever young lover, who’s slightly damaged, and ‘truly sees me,’ but meh. In my 30s, I think I’m finally over the unrealistic rendering of the hot, broody vampire. So, I think I’m starting to lean over to the Eric side. He’s bitchy, evil, & unapologetic, &, paradoxically, slightly more realistic as a guy than the aforementioned vampire templates, who I probably would’ve given my left eyetooth for earlier in my teens ;)