wpgrace wrote:darkstarrising wrote:I've always loved how Mick reacts after he successfully diverts Beth's attention away from sex (with vampires). That little puff of the cheeks is so cute. It's his own fault really. He was the one talking about how teenager boys think about sex so often (wonder how often grown men/vampires think about it)?
Hmmm... I think that stat would be fairly comparable.
But I had a problem with the sex thing and the teen vamp. I know he's physically 16 forever... and aside from the point that many of you have made about the acne (WTF were they thinking doing that to that character?) how is it he can't figure out how to have decent sex in 100 plus years? I get that the vampire thing gives the urges more stridency and potential violence... but they were implying that completion, or premature completion, is a problem. WHY? It's been awhile since I was 16, but I've got a teen daughter and I'm pretty sure that most 16 year old boys can figure what goes where and how, and practice does make perfect...he's had over 100 years! How stupid IS this guy? Hell with the internet one can get a tutorial. And he grew up in a brothel?
So he's never gonna be suave Josef, and so he kills a hooker when he has sex... call the Cleaner and get the next girl lined up... I'm not seeing why this guy makes such a mess out of something plenty of 16 year old humans manage to figure out, sad to say, on a pretty much daily basis.
And he uses a land line to make his dates? So he can be tracked? Seriously, he deserved to die just on lack of IQ points alone.
This episode had a lot of problems. But I was willing to go along with how screwed up he in particular was. If he was raised in a brothel (when he was raised in a brothel) that would have left him with plenty of anti-hooker feelings just because of how men felt when he was human.
Also, some scientists believe the human brain does not reach maturation till some time in the 20's. He would be a victim of Arrested Development in that case. A child's mind will never develop to adult rationalizations which is why when we think of a child vamp we go EWWWWW! With teenagers, some are more mature than others but the hormones being released makes rational thinking difficult. Today when young boys mature very young we forget 100 years ago, a boy's voice might not change until he was 16 or 17 years old. Due to nutrition they did not reach physical maturation. Girls did not mature till 15 or above. My own mother's body did not begin to change until she was 14. I needed a bra at 9.
Talking about it, I think I liked this episode better than I thought.
