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Being a fan of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, I was really jazzed to watch AMC's TV series adaptation. And I was not disappointed in most ways. I even loved the way that Louis and Claudia were changed to black characters and all the implications that brought to the story.

I'm loving The Vampire Lestat as well. Sam Reid is the best Lestat of them all. He does justice to the role in a way that shrimp Tom Cruise couldn't get anywhere near in the movie (and I've loathed him ever since).

I decided to re-read the series. I was going to book club it with my eldest spawn but he's so busy with Pride this month and his other interests I gave up on reading The Vampire Lestat with him and started it yesterday. Halfway through now because it's a great story that just carries you along.

However, it's really brought into focus the one thing that bothers me about the TV series. And that is that the vampires are too human. They eat and drink things other than blood. They smoke. They piss. They have sex. That's the part I am really having trouble with.

It was explicit in the books that they couldn't do that one thing. That the exchange for the dark gift was giving up use of those organs, for procreation and for pleasure. The sex really bothers me--especially the incest between Lestat and his mother, Gabrielle.

The deeper I get into the book (which I last read some 20 years ago) the more this bothers me. The vampires in the books have these rich lives, and intimate relationships with their chosen families, all without sex. It's clear that the loss of these aspects of being alive bothers them in various ways. The utter loneliness of it is their biggest pain. But the showrunners decided to throw sex and other human bodily functions in.

I don't know if it's because it is meant to appeal to a wider audience to keep the viewer numbers up and attract new fans that haven't read the books, as a conversation I saw online suggests, or if it's a lack of imagination on the writers' part because they couldn't think of a way to show these deep relationships without adding sex to the mix. It's the one complaint I have about the show. Which is my complaint about nearly all modern television: sexual activity does not have to be in a show in order to make it interesting, but they put it in everything anyway.

I also watched Queen of the Damned (with Aaliyah) again and I liked the music in that movie better than the music in the currently-running TV show. But that doesn't bother me like the sex does.

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