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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 5503833" data-attributes="member: 14159">I know that vampires are popular in fiction, but I just don't get how sympathetically they are treated on TV.On True Blood, the only sympathetic vampire is Bill.  Virtually every other one is a total monster, and the show is largely about vampires struggling to be legally recognized as having full civil rights (admittedly I've only seen the first season in it's entirety, and a few bits and pieces of later seasons, including one vampire murdering someone on live TV to "prove" to the world that they aren't like humans).  When we see the insides of vampiric society, it's about ancient mighty elders acting like particularly decadent and sadistic nobles from the dark ages.My wife likes to watch Being Human, and the more I see of that show, the more it seems to be much the same.  A world full of vampires (and werewolves) with vampiric society being downright evil and built on social models from millennia ago.The thing is, on both of these shows, vampire hunters are definitely not seen as sympathetic.  The Fellowship of the Sun in True Blood are the only people who seem to have a real understanding of what is going on, and they are antagonists depicted to be out-of-control villains.  The occasional vampire hunters on Being Human are treated as people with serious mental issues on erratic rampages.The only time I've seen vampire hunting treated sympathetically on TV was Buffy (and the short-lived Blade series I presume, but I never got to see it).Does anybody else not get the lack of love for those who would drive stakes into the hearts of monsters?</blockquote>

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