Vampire Diaries Hates Sex

[redfiona99]

I've previously mentioned I don't pick up well on subtext, so this must be screamingly near text. In Vampire Diaries (in the first two episodes at least, I'm hopefully seeing the 3rd one tonight), if you like sex you are a bad person in some way. Of the human characters, the ones that have expressed any interest in sex are the junkie younger brother, the shallow attention seeking girl, the local bike, Vicki (if you pardon the phrase, and at least the show looks like it's actually going beyond that stereotype) and her loser, douchebag boyfriend.

Meanwhile, the good lead girl and her letter jacket ex (who is the the brother of the above Vicki) and her best friend, the witch - this show is not good with introducing characters so I know what their names are, and with the exception of Elena, Vicki and the vamps, I have no idea what anybody is called - who have none of the downsides of the previously mentioned characters are as pure as driven snow.

On the vamp side, the good guy vamp is interested in long walks and long, meaningful talk, while the bad vampire likes sex, blood and rock and roll.

It's a spectacular dichotomy.

Then again, I disturbed my housemate D by saying I was cheap and easy for Ian Sommerhalder, because apparently I'm a nice girl and we don't say things like that, so they might just be reflecting the bizarre biases of society and at least it's equally opportunistically anti-sex.

Then, contra that, it is Kevin Williamson who's doing the writing and I remember the Times running an article describing Dawson's Creek as being the vanguard of neo-puritanism so yeah.

Comments

[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

Man, that makes me think of Secret Life of an American Teenager.
In which one character says, "My father DIED because I had AWESOME SEX!!"