Why Bill is No Hero – Eric Takes the Cake
December 10, 2009 by Tiffany
Filed under Eric Northman, The Books
This is a running list of the reasons why I do not like Bill Compton as Sookie’s love interest and why Eric is MUCH better for her. Since the books are so different from the TV series I will concentrate on the books in this post.
Reasons Why Bill Compton is a Big ZERO compared to Eric Northman
Bill
* Bill became obsessed with an assignment from the Queen of Louisiana and sat continuously in front of the computer to work on the project. He virtually ignored Sookie for weeks.
* Bill lied to Sookie about where he was going away to and that happened to be somewhere with his ex lover!
* Bill gave money to the Bellefleur’s because he found he was a distant relation to them. Sookie was in need of money at the time as well but Bill didn’t see fit to help his own girlfriend out with her finances when all the vampire business was what was making her miss so much work!
* Bill was going to leave Sookie for Lorena and give Sookie money as a payoff for being such an ass.
* Bill raped Sookie in the trunk of a car and drained a lot of blood from her. He claimed he didn’t know it was her at first, but hello… is doing that to some other chick okay??? To add insult and injury to more injury this happened after Sookie nearly died trying to save him.
* In the TV show version, Bill “sensed” Sookie was in danger nearby and ignored the call, opting instead to lure a young stripper (who had just given him a lap dance) into a limo so he, Lorena, and the King of Mississippi could drain her.
* Also on the TV show.. Bill refuses to save Tara when she was abducted by vampires, and he drinks Sookie nearly to death after she risked her life to save him.
Eric
* Eric sent Bubba to protect Sookie when Bill was gone. So when push came to shove it was Eric who was looking out for her safety… not Bill.
* Instead of ignoring Sookie, Eric always has time to tell her how beautiful and desirable she is.
* Sookie proclaimed that Eric actually “got” (understood) her, which she took great comfort in.
*Eric knew she was having money troubles because of all the work she was doing for them and in appreciation he had her driveway re-paved with really nice and expensive gravel. He only needed to hear once in passing that she needed a new driveway and he took care of it. He also bought her a new door when her old one got destroyed by a vampire.
* Eric bought her a new coat because she needed one.
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In summation… Bill this is for you:
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Eric got her, Eric has sense of humor, Eric can make her laugh so hard even when she is angry with him, Eric can protect her, Eric is a bad ass even cruel and his hands are plenty of blood, but that is the Sceriff Eric Northman, Eric with Sookie is different, Eric loves her, i guess he’s really scared about that becouse that could be a problem for him, a distraction for him…and whn Eric is not concentrated somtimes Sookie and Him went in troubles…as in Club Dead when he was attacked at Gas Station becouse his mind was not with him….of course was thinking about his feelings…
Eric is many things…he is lighr but also dark….but he is sincerely fall for Sookie….
are sookie and eric going to be together again after dead to the world? i don’t dare to read after :S
Sarah, they do not get together again until book 9.
NOO Eric, is so hot why can’t everyone see it. The first time she saw Eric she was offered by Bill to turn around and go with Eric.. I MEAN WTF IS WRONG WITH HER I WOULD TOTALLY HAVE DONE IT!!
NOO Eric, is so hot why can’t everyone see it. The first time she saw Eric she was offered by Bill to turn around and go with Eric.. I would have done without a doubt
In your lists of reasons, you forgot reason he started seeing her and took her virginity! That was the most unforgivable thing he has done by far. She should cut ties with Bill forever for that reason alone.
And don’t forget Bill raped her in the back of a car! Really he is discusting why dont he Gabe and Steve just lay down and die!?
and eric bought Sookie a new coat
Yes he did. I forgot about that! So sweet…
Plus Eric told her she had the most beautiful breasts he had ever seen, that’s quite a compliment from a 1000+ year old vamp! (We’ll over look the fact he was an amnesiac at the time
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HAHA totally
Just about to start book 5…been flicking through for some Eric action. I lurrrve him, Bill disgusts me!
As my friend said he has to rape all his food (BILL) even the botles!
The news eric and sookie is going to be together in book 9 is JUST hilaurios! I’m in the book 7 , and I hate sookie is hangin around whith those were-things, eric is the only guy for him now that bill is out of picture
I think that eric and sookie should be together in the show like in the books because there so grate together.
I like the parts in the books with eric and sookie in and most of there story lines in the books are the main stories in the gonra of true blood/the Sookie Stackhouse Novels with sookies life like there blood bond and there relashionship in book 4 when eric has amnisa also when eic has feelings for sookie.
In book 3 there was a part in the book when sookie got stabed and eric was by her side and eric was so caring and didnt leave her side that made him seem to care for sookie in a deep way and have feelings for her.
AND
in book 3 they shared blood and nearly slept together
I want them to do this part in series 3 because thats one of the most impotant parts in there relashionship together and in the story line esspeshaly to there blood bond.
I think that bill in the book is less caring and doesnt seem that interested in showing feelings and being with sookie.
Bill can be stupid somtimes and some of the things that he done in the books are so horrable and he doesnt show that he cares much for sookie.
I think that in the show that they show bill in a different way like a caring and protective person toward sookie and i think in series 3 thay should deffantly break up bill and sookie for eric and sookie to be together and show bills true nature like in the books.
Team Eric! I read all 10 books! I am still rooting for Eric!!! Bill…Hell, he has her in real life. For movies or books… let Eric have Sookie!
how can a vampire be an amnesiac if he’s dead and doesn’t have brain waves? and why did lorena get sick after she bit barry at the hotel when she was holding bill prisoner?
Don’t know about Lorena getting sick.. that is something Alan Ball created for the TV show. As for Eric getting amnesia.. it wasn’t medical, it was a witch’s curse.
lorena didnt get sick, not because of berry at least, but she got sick later on – at day, because even old vampires strugles to be wake at day
Do you think Stephen and Anna’s real life relationship is influencing the writers to keep Bill and Sookie together as long as they can? Eric’s character seems to be there (in the TV show) just to attract female viewers but not to play the important role he has in the books. What a waste. For once, I was happy that a writer had seen above and beyond that old cliché of ending up with your first love but the show is killing it for me.
First time around, so excuse me if this has been discussed in other threads.
Claudia, I DO think the real life relationship and the friendship that Alan Ball has with the couple are impacting his decision in this regard.
What if Allan Ball has some inside scoop and Charlaine is planning on turning her back on us and get Bill and Sookie together again? I’ll burn that book if it happens!
I’m trying to accept the fact that Eric and Sookie won’t be an important part of the TV show (if it happens) and even if it comes to happen, I don´t believe it will have the same ¨intensity¨ that is shown between Bill and Sookie. That will only encourage Bill shippers to believe they really belong together because there’ll be much more chemistry between Bill and Sookie than Sookie and Eric.
Let’s brainwash Allan Ball. Who’s with me?
i think you’ve failed to mention that mostly (if not every time) eric pays her hospital bills, which shows that he cares both about her finances and her health
I hate to post a pro Bill statement on here, this is your space and I swear I just came on here because my friend likes Eric and I’m making her an Eric keepsake box and needed a few quotes, but anyways I just wanted to share why I like Bill over Eric.
first I’ll address the points that were made:
yes, I agree that it was a jerk move that he started to take Sookie for granted when he was working on the database.
It kind of bugs me when people bring up that Bill left Sookie to go to Lorena because it wasn’t like he was just called by an old friend/girl friend. He was called back by his maker. something that sookie later learned is very hard to avoid. (in dead in the family even Eric speaks of the bond between maker and child) and than when she told him he was not to return to sookie he tried to make sure she would be okay by leaving her money. I didn’t take it as he was just buying forgiveness, more as the last act he could do for her.
I believe the easy answer to why bill never gave sookie money is just to reread what happened in the beginning of book 2, living dead in Dallas, when he told her that he had bought the property that Tara’s togs was on and if she ever wanted clothes to just simply go in and put it on his tab, flipped out and told him she was not going to be a kept woman and pretty much that she didn’t want to be treated as a whore. if i had been given this speech i would think not just twice but three and four times before i make an offer of money or such to my girlfriend again.
if i remember correctly, in the trunk when bill woke up he first savagely bit Sookie than forced himself on to her, and after sookie fought like a “wildcat” to get a lung full of air, Bill came to his senses and was very confused and asked her why they were having sex in a closet, than asked if she had said yes to the sex, when she said no he quickly righted her clothing and punched a hole through the cars trunk so she could breath. I think one thing most people forget about vampires is that they are instinct driven and if Bill had been starved and tortured for that long he was not going to be the mainstreaming vampire he usually is. sookie even said so much to alcide later on, along with the fact that she did not think of it as rape.
there is ALOT of reason as to why i prefer Bill over Eric but as I said earlier I want to be respectful of your space here, so i won’t go in to details. one thing i will say is that sookie never really gives a chance to bill to explain things she just simply gets upset and walks away. something Eric pointed out to her himself in living dead in Dallas.
I deliberately choose not to discuss the show seeing as how it is soooo different than the books and should be regarded as a separate entity altogether.
I agree that Bill probably could not have resisted the call from his maker. On that point we agree. However, the real kicker for me (and for Sookie, if you pay close attention) was the fact that he LIED to her (AGAIN) about the whole thing. He didn’t tell her why, he didn’t tell her where (said he was going to Seattle which was BS), and was planning on “pensioning her off” like some used-up mistress. It was disgusting and demeaning, and even ERIC was disgusted by Bill’s behavior.
I also agree that Sookie made it very clear that she didn’t want to be a “kept” woman, but in this instance, it’s more just a difference in the way things are handled. Eric sees Sookie needs new gravel, so he just does it. With Bill, he would have ASKED Sookie if he wanted her to do it….and what woman is going to say yes to that? To most women, that shows a man doesn’t really WANT to do something for you, but he will if you say so. It may be manipulative on Sookie’s part, but really, she and Eric just…well, they “get” each other. Eric doesn’t TREAT Sookie like a kept woman, even when he’s doing things for her.
And to underscore….Bill never even ASKED if there was anything Sookie needed. Just spent his time on the computer…
I am sooo tired of the heroic gestures of Bill, and I have a Facebook page to prove it, it’s become a bit over done on the show.
Woot woot, I’m a fan now and I’ve commented! Couldn’t agree with you more!
Team Eric!
Great list!
Eric is superior to Bill in every way fathomable.
Bill go to hell