Comments on: Vampire or Werewolf?

By: attygnorris

attygnorris — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 04:29:14 +0000

Thanks for the comments! You all make very good points… except for you, Danny. Just kidding.

I wonder if it’s a gender thing. We women may gravitate more towards stories of love and romance, protection and chivalry, seduction and sensuality…

Whereas, you guys are just brutes, who think simplistically like animals and only want to be one-dimensional characters who, without thought or reason, change with a full moon and run through the street aimlessly killing…and shedding hair as you go.

Hmmm. Makes sense.

Davida

By: Kelly

Kelly — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:02:34 +0000

I’ve never been a fan of any of that, I don’t like scary stuff, but I will admit, that when the tv show Moonlight was on, I was enthralled. And I am really sucked in by the Twilight books. I’ve read the first 2 and am trying to hold out on the 3rd and 4th for Christmas gifts…

Now, supposing that vampires and werewolves operate as they do in Twilight and the show moonlight, I think I’d prefer to be a vampire. Not only are the capable of controlling their thirst allowing there to be good and bad vampires, the are apparently gorgeous, smell wonderful and are dazzling to everyone.

They can run super fast. They can jump out of windows, scale buildings, have keen senses of sound and smell and some of them have extra super powers like mind reading, seeing the future, adjusting the moods of those around them, etc.

I think that is so much cooler than phasing from human to wolf.

Not that it wouldn’t be cool to be able to have extra strength and the ability to rid the world of the bad vampires, but come on. In comparison, the wolves can’t hold a candle to the vampires.

~Kelly
http://www.30somethingandsearching.today.com/

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:42:27 +0000

I have to give my vote to the vampires. A good vampire story has always been able to hold my attention. I’ve read all of Anne Rice’s novels, loved Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and have read Twilight. It might be because while reading, it’s so easy to fall in love with the vampires. They’re always good looking, sexy, and seductive. I’ve never had that same connection with werewolves. However, I’m in no rush to see Twilight because I’m always disappointed when I’ve read the book first.

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:19:45 +0000

Well based on that synopsis I must be crazy to pick the mere animal werewolf, but that’s who I’m going to vote for. The idea of vampires willingly preying on people has always made it difficult to root for them in the movie theater. The eternal damnation thing didn’t help either. Not that I root for the werewolves tearing into people anymore, I just have been able to better stomach the idea that at least most werewolf stories involve characters who do things out of compulsion, instead of by choice.

Also, I hard time getting behind sneaky characters who seduce other characters to later rip them to pieces, either figuratively or literally. These characters are far more common in vampire stories than werewolf stories. Most vampire stories involve characters who tell their victims come down this dark alley with me and let me kiss you on your neck, when the whole time their plan is to devoir this unfortunate person. Granted you must be a pretty dumb character to get in this predicament, but I feel sympathy (probably because I know a few village idiots) and wouldn’t want even these people to end up as lunch for the sneaky vampire man or woman.

One other note, if vampires are supposed to be a variation of humans, and werewolves a variation of wolves, I’m guessing the Wolfman would put a hurting on Dracula in hand-to-hand combat. I can’t think of too many people who would be willing to go toe-to-toe with their own puppies, let a lone a wild wolf. Just my thoughts.