Samantha Jones vs. Blanche Devereaux

Being a loyal fan of 'Golden Girls' for quite a while and especially with the recent passing of Rue McClanahan(R.I.P. her soul) makes it very hard for me to write this blog. Yes I've been a huge 'Sex and the City' fan since I was 8 and actually way to young to watch it. But they talked about things that I've never even heard of.

Being absolutely in love with both sets of those 4 friends sharing everything and often laughing and suffering with them through their countless discussions at a dinning table made me think about it. Those shows are so much alike.

And yet I can't get over the fact that 'Golden Girls' was sooo over the top and yet a real family show while 'SATC' was often regarded as porn by many who hadn't even seen the show(Yes my family did more than once). Essentially both shows were the same especially Blanche and Sam.
Both tough and rough at first glance, yet with a very warm, soft and caring heart. Both of them frank and often cynical and cautious when it came to men.

While Samantha never married nor had she ever had children – admitting to having aborted before – Blanche had all that what would have driven Sam into insanity. Both having made sexual experiences at an early age and never being afraid to try a new technique or sharing their experiences with the other three girls. Though to Blanche's credit she never turned sides, she was heterosexual same can't be said about Sam.

All in all I think of Blanche as a Samantha of my mother's or maybe even grandmother's era, a little more censored, with a little more class and not so shocking to today's viewers.

However no matter how much I love both shows I have to say 'SATC' and Samantha are just a tad better than it's original(I think it's safe to say Michael Patrick King got his idea from 'GG'). Being 17 now it's maybe just the generation that I personally grew up in, at first being disgusting but soon growing to love Sam's frank nature and her advice.

What do you think? Sam or Blanche? Surely both will be remember for a long time!