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Dec. 4th, 2009 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickBeen watching True Blood (season 2) here of late. I could pretend that it's because I'm doing some kind of deconstructionist literary theory thing but that would be lying.
The thing is, I like vampires, even sparkley ones with bizarre stalker-type relationships. I'm a huge fan of the vampire thing, the allegorical biting stuff. I like the religious symbolism, the angst, and the striking of poses. Big fan, here. I like vampires in Buffy. I like vampires in Forever Knight. I like vampires in those awful novels by that Rice woman. So, y'know, bad southern accents and sprawling mythology in Louisiana? Yeah. I'm down with that. Vampires (for the most part) are sexy. Mostly. (Full disclosure: Bill (in True Blood) has zero sex appeal but that's okay because there is so much else in the damn thing to drool over.) For what are basically animated, room-temperature corpses, they are full of hotness. Note that very few people lust over zombies but the number of people lusting over Edward from Twilight, alone... And it's not necro. Or is it? I think the appeal of necro (Why yes, I have spent time considering the appeal of necrophilia.) is that they don't move or talk or look at you. They're just *there* like a RealDoll, only more real.
At any rate, I watched the first season of True Blood last year (No link because I'm too lazy to try looking manually through past entries. There's a widget in my LJ software that allegedly lets me download of all my lj text to offline status, which I am redding up to do here directly so that I can set up a fucking text-based search feature on my own hard drive. I'm tired of LJ's steadfast refusal to provide me with anything useful on the search engine front.) and I still like allegorical bites, same as I did then. I am also continuing to watch because (like at least half of the viewership) I want to see more Eric more nekkid. He's such a pretty thing, worth the price of admission.
I like the casual cruelty of vampires. Blaming 'em for it is like blaming a cat for batting a wiggling string. It's what they *do*. Amusing, that, at least to watch. Probably it isn't something I'd actually like applied to me, but watching it is entirely fun. In season 2, the eye candy front also gives us Godric, who made Eric. He's a young thing (note to self: do not imdb actors -- it always depresses you when they're born after the year you graduated from high school.) but a delightfully pretty one. There's something to be said for delightfully pretty. (Blood down his chin makes it better. Yes.)
Actually, this season (I've got two episodes to go) has been chock full of eye candy. We had Eggs, who fit into blue jeans better than anyone I've seen in a very long time. Jason Stackhouse, of couse, is pretty in a 'needs to eat more' bodyfat percentage kind of way. Tara's also built like a brick. Add them to the aforementioned Eric and there's something worth watching in every episode.
Also, I am looking foward to the exploding mythology. In the books, the mythology explodes and it started going supernova (or possibly suprnova, given how I get my television) about the time I stopped reading the books. I'm interested to see what HBO does with the source material at that point.
The thing is, I like vampires, even sparkley ones with bizarre stalker-type relationships. I'm a huge fan of the vampire thing, the allegorical biting stuff. I like the religious symbolism, the angst, and the striking of poses. Big fan, here. I like vampires in Buffy. I like vampires in Forever Knight. I like vampires in those awful novels by that Rice woman. So, y'know, bad southern accents and sprawling mythology in Louisiana? Yeah. I'm down with that. Vampires (for the most part) are sexy. Mostly. (Full disclosure: Bill (in True Blood) has zero sex appeal but that's okay because there is so much else in the damn thing to drool over.) For what are basically animated, room-temperature corpses, they are full of hotness. Note that very few people lust over zombies but the number of people lusting over Edward from Twilight, alone... And it's not necro. Or is it? I think the appeal of necro (Why yes, I have spent time considering the appeal of necrophilia.) is that they don't move or talk or look at you. They're just *there* like a RealDoll, only more real.
At any rate, I watched the first season of True Blood last year (No link because I'm too lazy to try looking manually through past entries. There's a widget in my LJ software that allegedly lets me download of all my lj text to offline status, which I am redding up to do here directly so that I can set up a fucking text-based search feature on my own hard drive. I'm tired of LJ's steadfast refusal to provide me with anything useful on the search engine front.) and I still like allegorical bites, same as I did then. I am also continuing to watch because (like at least half of the viewership) I want to see more Eric more nekkid. He's such a pretty thing, worth the price of admission.
I like the casual cruelty of vampires. Blaming 'em for it is like blaming a cat for batting a wiggling string. It's what they *do*. Amusing, that, at least to watch. Probably it isn't something I'd actually like applied to me, but watching it is entirely fun. In season 2, the eye candy front also gives us Godric, who made Eric. He's a young thing (note to self: do not imdb actors -- it always depresses you when they're born after the year you graduated from high school.) but a delightfully pretty one. There's something to be said for delightfully pretty. (Blood down his chin makes it better. Yes.)
Actually, this season (I've got two episodes to go) has been chock full of eye candy. We had Eggs, who fit into blue jeans better than anyone I've seen in a very long time. Jason Stackhouse, of couse, is pretty in a 'needs to eat more' bodyfat percentage kind of way. Tara's also built like a brick. Add them to the aforementioned Eric and there's something worth watching in every episode.
Also, I am looking foward to the exploding mythology. In the books, the mythology explodes and it started going supernova (or possibly suprnova, given how I get my television) about the time I stopped reading the books. I'm interested to see what HBO does with the source material at that point.
